The Rosenstiel School operates a new ocean-going research vessel, the 96-foot F. G. WALTON SMITH. Rosenstiel scientists are also frequent participants on the legs of the JOIDES Resolution, a drilling ship used by the international Ocean Drilling Program whose mission is to explore the structure and history of the earth by collecting core samples form the ocean floor.
The School's library houses an extensive marine science collection including over 62,380 volumes, 2,098 journal titles, and 2,000 nautical charts. It also includes a large Caribbean and Latin American collection.
The Marine Invertebrate Museum is an internationally recognized research facility for Atlantic tropical marine invertebrates. The collections, which have few rivals as to number, geographic and vertical range of Atlantic tropical species, are of exceptional value as research, teaching, reference and data resources because of their comprehensive nature and the fact that the major portion of the material has been and continues to be identified by leading specialists from around the world. The collections consist of ca 60,000 lots (comprising approx 900,000 specimens; 23 phyla), of which at present 36,000 lots are cataloged and identified to species, and ca 24,000 uncataloged and identified to order or family