Bears Bluff Laboratories (Wadmalaw Island, S.C.) records
Content Description
Materials are primarily comprised of printed materials including U.S. Dept. of Commerce Weather Reports, U.S. Dept. of Commerce Local Climatological Summaries, Station Meteorological Summaries, and The South Carolina Co-Operative Agricultural Weather Observer newsletter as well as monthly meteorological summaries and monthly weather forecasts recording temperature, precipitation, wind, and general weather. Also included are individual monthly weather observation journals with daily observations of temperature and precipitation taken at the Bears Bluff Laboratories station.
Dates
- Creation: 1939-1969
Creator
- Bears Bluff Laboratories, Wadmalaw Island, S.C (Organization)
Language of Material
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Copyright Notice
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Historical Note
Bears Bluff Laboratories on Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, was a nonprofit marine ecology research station founded in 1946 by the Slocum and Lunz Foundation. H. Jermain Slocum donated coastal land and initial funding for a laboratory, dormitory, workshops, ponds, dock and research vessel; Robert Lunz served as director of research. In 1954, Bears Bluff Laboratories partnered with the College of Charleston and Medical University of South Carolina to expand. In 1970, operations moved to the Department of Natural Resources, S.C. Marine Division at Fort Johnson on James Island, South Carolina. Bears Bluff Laboratories is now Bears Bluff National Fish Hatchery, part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Full Extent
1.0 linear feet (2 document boxes)
Abstract
Various records from 1939 to 1969 from Bears Bluff Laboratories (1946-1970) marine research station on Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, including U.S. Dept. of Commerce Weather Bureau meteorological and climatological summaries, as well as observation journals and other miscellaneous printed materials.
Collection Arrangement
Materials are described at the folder level.
Acquisitions Information
Materials transferred in 2014 from the Marine Resources Library to Special Collections, College of Charleston.
Processing Information
Processed by AK Stanhope, September 2025.
Source
- College of Charleston. Marine Resources Library (Donor, Organization)
Subject
- Bears Bluff Laboratories, Wadmalaw Island, S.C (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Inventory of the Bears Bluff Laboratories (Wadmalaw Island, S.C.) records, 1939-1969
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by: AK Stanhope; finding aid created by: AK Stanhope
- Date
- 2025
- Description rules
- Dacs
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
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