The Lerner Marine Laboratory was a research station on the island of North

Bimini Bimini is the westernmost district of the Bahamas and comprises a chain of islands located about due east of Miami. Bimini is the closest point in the Bahamas to the mainland United States and approximately west-northwest of Nassau. The popula ...

, the

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, operated by the

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(AMNH) from 1948 until 1975. The laboratory was named for AMNH trustee Michael Lerner. The station was located on the edge of a lagoon, with passages to the open ocean to the west, giving access to the

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, and to the

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to the east. The station provided housing for ten visiting scientists (in 1960). The station eventually acquired a research vessel, shark pens, and a building with eleven laboratories. Close to 150 scientists conducted research at the station in 1968.

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