Hiding out among the luxury beachfront condos in the Newport Beach neighborhood of Corona Del Mar is an outpost where scientists have been conducting important marine research for nearly a century.
And you can go check the place out for yourself.
A ‘magical’ marine station
With its Spanish style architecture that includes a central tower and red-tiled roof, Caltech’s Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory looks like it’s been teleported in from another time and place.
Originally built as a boat and club house, it was purchased by Caltech in 1929 for use as a beachfront science outpost…