Profile: NOAA settles in new building

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is settling into its new, $23 million building in downtown Pascagoula. Lisa Desfosse, laboratory director, said NOAA has 107 employees in the building, as well others at the Pascagoula dock and a group at John C. Stennis Space Center that does engineering work. The 53,000-square-foot building houses the Southeast Fisheries Science Center's laboratory, the National Seafood Inspection Laboratory and the Documentation, Approval and Supply Services. Resources surveys are the main function of the lab, and it also monitors Gulf of Mexico "dead zones." (Source: Mississippi Press, 04/25/10).