Gatty Marine Laboratory

Gatty Marine Laboratory

Mathematics

Gatty Marine Laboratory(which is also the home of Scottish Oceans Institute) was named after the zoologist Charles Henry Gatty, who paid for the original timber building with its permanent stone replacement in 1892. Though the stone building was officially opened in 1896, it was seriously burnt in 1913 and was no longer used until the end of WW2. In 1945, Gatty Marine Laboratory received an operating budget of £50(around £1,780 under the modern currency) to be used as a field station by zoologists and botanists based in the Bute Medical Building in the town center. In the following years, it has been led by Dr. James Munro Dodd, then Dr. Adrian Horridge, together with Prof. Michael Laverack. With the richness of fauna and flora, Gatty Marine Laboratory is no doubt one of the best choices for research purposes. Ever since 1987, it has become part of the research institute that belongs to the School of Biology. All kinds of interdisciplinary researches have been carried out here: behavior, ecology, physiology, population biology, functional genomics of marine organisms, etc. A few years later, it received the highest number of research grants in marine biology of any UK department. By the late 1990s, its scale was expanded and the majority of the buildings became occupied by the Natural Environment Research Council.

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Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of, East Sands, St Andrews, KY16 8LB

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