Learn more about the facilities for the UNCW Center for Marine Science. Find a list of the facilities and gain insight to their different uses.
About Our Facilities
The original $17.5 million UNCW Center for Marine Science was completed in 2000 with a total of 75,000 square feet of net indoor space including:
- Teaching auditorium for up to 150 individuals
- Classrooms and marine science labs
- Running seawater system which provides raw unfiltered and purified seawater at flow rates up to 600 liters/min.
- Greenhouse with running seawater
- Aquarium room and outdoor tanks with running seawater
- 900-foot pier with docking facilities
In the spring of 2008, the 24,000 square foot addition was completed. This one-story addition with a second floor mechanical loft added:
- 37 individual offices
- Five shops (Dive, Oceanographic Instrumentation with 7,000 gallon seawater test tank, Aquaculture and Boat Repair)
- Four labs (Instrument Fabrication, Biotechnology (2) and NCNERR)
- A dive compressor room
- Conference room with full voice and data capabilities
In the summer of 2010, the $4.3 million 11,000 square foot Shellfish Research Hatchery was completed, and in 2013, the 70,000 square foot Marine Biotechnology (MARBIONC) building opened.
MARBIONC Building
- 69,000-square foot interdisciplinary research facility with leasable lab spaces
- Research lab spaces for rent to entrepreneurs, start-up companies and established businesses that focus on biotechnology, analytical and environmental sciences and early-stage pharmaceutical research and development
- Silver LEED certified facility
- Ebb Tide Cafe offers breakfast, lunch and dinner with patio seating
- Interactive coffee nook
- Natural wooded environment
- Affordable commercial labs available for lease
Center for Marine Science
- 99,000 square feet of net indoor space
- Teaching auditorium for up to 150 individuals
- Classrooms and marine science labs
- Running seawater system which provides raw unfiltered and purified seawater at flow rates up to 600 liters/minute
- Greenhouse with running seawater
- Aquarium room and outdoor tanks with running seawater
- 900-foot pier with docking facilities
- Five shops (Dive, Oceanographic Instrumentation with 7,000 gallon seawater test tank, Aquaculture and Boat Repair)
- Four labs (Instrument Fabrication, Biotechnology(2) and NCNERR)
- Dive compressor room
- Conference room with full voice and data capabilities
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Shellfish Research Hatchery
- 11,000-square-foot facility that provides researchers a laboratory to study oysters and other North Carolina shellfish species
- Research projects include studies on water flow, types of algae and the impact of predators
- Partnership between UNCW and the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources Aquarium Division
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