ORD/NHEERL/Gulf Ecology Division Library Services
This is a specialized research library for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL) in Gulf Breeze, Florida.
The Gulf Ecology Division (GED) is responsible for research on the large-scale physical, chemical, and biological dynamics of coastal wetlands and estuaries, with emphasis on the Gulf of Mexico. Our research products provide information on the condition and functions of ecological resources, the services to society supplied by coastal ecosystems, rates and causes of ecological change and impairment, and predicted future conditions under various alternative scenarios.
Contact Information
The Library is open to the public by appointment. We are located at:
Sabine Island at Pensacola Beach, Florida.
Reference: (850) 934-9218
Interlibrary Loan: (850) 934-9318
Fax: (850) 934-2409
Mailing Address:
US EPA
1 Sabine Island Drive
Library
Gulf Breeze, FL 32561-5299
Hours of Operation
The Library is open from 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM CST, Monday through Friday, excluding federal holidays.
Borrowing Policy and Interlibrary Loans
Borrowing privileges are limited to EPA staff and other libraries.
To locate EPA library and repository materials, you can search the Online Library System (OLS), EPA Libraries’ online catalog. If you have any questions, please call or e-mail the library.
Information For Other Libraries: We freely share materials with other libraries via the OCLC Interlibrary Loan system. Our OCLC symbol is EKC and we are members of FEDL (Federal Libraries and Information Centers), PLAN (Panhandle Library Access Network), and FLIN (Florida Library Information Network). For libraries that do not have OCLC access, please contact the Librarian at (850) 934-9318 for alternate methods.
EPA Library Services for the Public
The EPA National Library Network provides a variety of public services:
- National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS), part of the National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP)
- Online Library System (OLS)
- EPA Library Services and Repositories
About the Collection
Subject areas include:
- aquatic toxicology
- environmental monitoring
- estuarine research
- marine ecology
- microbiology
- pathobiology
- pesticide science
History of the Library
The Gulf Ecology Division library is located in a Creole style cottage built in the early 1900s.
The building originally served as the physician's residence when the Pensacola Quarantine Station occupied the island from 1906 to 1925.
The facility was expanded in 1979 by enclosing a side porch and again in 1992 by adding a room to the back. Enclosed floor space now measures approximately 1,450 square feet.