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Facilities
for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
The Dauphin Island Sea Lab is located on a 36-acre campus
on the east end of Dauphin Island, 35 miles south of
Mobile, Alabama. The facilities can accommodate over 160
persons in residence.
Support
facilities
include an apartment building, 2 dormitories, a
cafeteria, 8 three-bedroom family houses, and a Laundromat. Recreational facilities on campus include
volleyball courts, basketball courts and a swimming pool.
Teaching
facilities
include 4 classroom/laboratory buildings and a library
with holdings that include more than 6,800 book titles
and subscriptions to 600 periodicals dealing with marine
sciences. Numerous electronic bibliographic databases are
available at the library.
A computer
lab
equipped with Windows® PCs is located in the
Administration building, in the library. A variety
programs are available for use including word-processing,
database management, statistical analysis. GIS and graphic presentation. Internet access
is also available for staff and students.
The graduate and research programs are housed in the Wiese Marine
Science Hall,
which contains 24,000 square feet of research labs and
office space. Available instrumentation includes a
carbon/nitrogen/sulfur analyzer, TOC, nutrient and lipid
analyzers, several HPLCs and gas chromatographs, a
scintillation counter, UV/VIS fluorometers and
spectrophotometers. Support equipment includes balances,
a refrigerated centrifuge, a lyophilizer, muffle furnaces
and ovens, research grade deionized water, computer
equipment and the usual complement of laboratory
materials. Field gear includes high resolution CTD's and
current meters, oxygen meters, plankton nets, corers,
data buoys, transmissometers, water quality monitors, a
variety of trawls and other nets for collecting, bottom
grabs, photometers, refractometers, pH meters and a
variety of water samplers.
Research
vessels
available for class and research activities include: the R/V A.E. Verrill,
a 65-foot, diesel-powered steel hull vessel; R/V E. O. Wilson, a
45-foot, diesel-powered fiberglass hull vessel; and five additional boats (14
to 30 feet) powered by outboards.
In addition to the Dauphin Island campus, Sea Lab students have use
of 253 acres of natural marsh, owned by the University
of Alabama, on Point aux Pins on the north side of the Mississippi Sound. The
west side of the Point is bounded by Grand Bay, one of
the least polluted bodies of water on the Gulf Coast, and
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Housing and Cafeteria
Two dormitories (Challenger and Beagle), a
two-story efficiency apartment complex with twelve units
(Albatross), a cafeteria, and eight three-bedroom houses
provide quarters for visiting faculty and students.
Facilities at the Dauphin
Island Sea Lab have been renovated and constructed to
provide access to all users. To assist DISL in
accommodating any special needs that a student may have,
please notify your specific Registrar
before your
arrival of any disabilities or conditions that require
special accommodations. Pamela Pierce
is the Registrar for Discovery Hall Programs and
Sally Brennan is the
Registrar for University Programs.
Each dormitory room has
two occupants and provides an individual air conditioner,
twin beds, at least two closets,
and a study table. Air conditioners should be operated
only while the room is occupied. Visitors must provide
their own linens (sheets, towels, blankets, pillows,
etc.)
Washing machines and
dryers are available on campus at a cost of $1.00 to wash
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Information Technology
The Dauphin Island
Sea Lab's Information Technology (IT) department provides computing services
supporting academic, research and administrative departments. The
IT department provides a broad range of computing
support for a diverse set of hardware and software,
all linked through a campus wide network.
Resources
Available
A shared access resource center
is located in the library, in the administration building, for graduate
and undergraduate students. A variety of programs for word processing, database management, statistical
analysis and graphic presentation are installed on these
computers. Access to the Internet is also provided.
Printing, scanning and other peripheral resources are
available.
For additional information
regarding IT services please contact
Melissa Mills.
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Classroom and
Meeting Space
Four buildings located on the South
Campus provide over 9,000 square feet of classroom/laboratory facilities.
These include:
- Wiese Hall Classroom - Seating capacity of 50
- Galathea - Seating
capacity of 100
- Horizon - 4
classrooms
- Discovery - 2
classrooms
- Endeavor - Seating
capacity of 40
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