Facilities

The School operates from a 16-building complex situated on Biscayne Bay. Its ocean-going research catamaran, the 96-foot research vessel F.G. Walton Smith is homed at the newly renovated campus pier. The campus is wirelessly connected and its computing capacity is powered by the University of Miami High Performance Computing (HPC) facility. On-campus laboratories are equipped with state-of-the-art instruments including a salt-water wave tank, an isotopic mass spectrometer, five-tank Conditioning and Spawning Systems, multi-tank Aplysia Culture Laboratory, Controlled Corals Climate Tanks, Applied Biosystems 3730xl DNA Analyzer, Evolution 3 automated liquied-handling system.

The School’s library houses an extensive marine science collection including more than 55,000 volumes, 1,100 current journals, 2,000 nautical charts, 25,000 indexed reprints. It also includes a large Caribbean and Latin American collection. An on-campus research invertebrate museum houses one of the world's most extensive collections of invertebrate tropical marine life. This collection includes identified lots of approximately 400,000 invertebrate specimens.

Rosenstiel School has a near-real-time satellite downlink and aquaria facilities at the Center of Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS) site on University of Miami Richmond Campus, South Florida.

Off-campus facilities include the Bimini Biological Field Station, oceanographic high-frequency radar arrays along the US east coast, Bermuda aerosol observatory, and Little Salt Spring.

The School has deployed several mobile instruments at numerous research sites around the world. They include Air Sea Interaction Buoys, 94-GHz Doppler Cloud Radar, X-Band Cloud Radar, 915 MHz Wind Profiler, Marine-Atmosphere Emitted Radiance Interferometer (M-AERI).

CSTARS Facility, Richmond Campus