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Columbia Directory
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(803) 777-1548
 

The Columbia Office of the Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and  Coastal Sciences is on the 6th floor (Room 607 EWS) in the Earth & Water Sciences Center (Map Number 89) which is located between the Coker Life Sciences Building (Map Number 100, Sumter Street) and the Jones Physical Science Center (Map Number 90, South Main Street).

For driving directions to the Columbia Office please click this link which will take you to mapquest.com.  Scroll to the bottom of the page and enter your starting address in the, "Get Directions to Above Location from:" field.

Once you arrive in Columbia enter into the Coker Life Sciences Building on Sumter Street or the Jones Physical Science Center on South Main Street and proceed to the 6th floor.  Follow the signs to the Earth & Water Sciences Building, Room 607.  If you have questions please call the office at (803) 777-5288.

Directions to the Kimbel Center & Marine Field Lab in Georgetown, SC

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Follow Highway 521 East
Take 521 into Georgetown. Approx. 4 miles inside the city limits turn slight left onto Church Street / US-17 ALT and follow signs to the Beaches; Church St becomes US-17N.  As you leave Georgetown you will cross two rivers.  After crossing the second bridge (crosses Waccamaw River part of Atlantic Intracoastal Water Way), watch for the entrance to Hobcaw Barony approximately one mile on the right.  The Baruch Marine Field Laboratory is located on Hobcaw Barony.
 

 ....you have two choices. Turn right through the parking lot to go to the Kimbel Center, Dorms, and Cottages or proceed to the lift gate arm to access the Baruch Marine Field Laboratory.

 Pull up to the electric gate. Gate Phone Instructions (these are printed on the gate phone box)
    1. Press & release # to view the directory
    2. Enter the directory code to call the USC Baruch Marine Lab: 009 or 012
    3. Identify yourself, and the receptionist will open the gate remotely
If no answer, press * to hang up.  Repeat instructions 1-3 again. The gate phone is on a timer and after 30 seconds, it will cut off automatically.  If you have not been to the lab before, see directions in next paragraph below.

 Proceed through the gate and stay on the main road, Hobcaw Road.  You will pass the Clemson Baruch Coastal Ecology Laboratory on the left. Continue on Hobcaw Road 0.2 miles until you come to a three way intersection at which point you will veer left on Crab Hall Road.  Drive approximately 2.2 miles until you reach the lab.  Please drive slow and be careful with oncoming traffic, the road is narrow and the shoulders are soft and swampy. There are only a few safe places to pull off Crab Hall Road. Please park in the lot on your left as you approach the Field Laboratory complex.

 Click to enlarge the Map below for the facilities offered at the lab and their locations.  If you have any questions please call us at (843) 546-3623.