#repost usmgulfpark: "Welcome to the fleet, R/V Jim Franks! Commissioned on Saturday, June 18, this 60-foot research vessel is named after the still-practicing fisheries biologist and longtime Gulf Coast Research Laboratory senior research scientist, James S. (Jim) Franks." #USMresearch #SMTTT! #SouthernMiss #GulfofMexico #oceanscience gcrl_usm