Teaching and Research Facilities
The
Marine Laboratory's modern physical plant consists of 23 buildings, including
several dormitories, a large dining hall, one residence, boathouse that
has been remodeled as a student commons, a storehouse for ship's gear, classroom
laboratories, six research buildings, and a maintenance complex. The Marine
Laboratory operates the R/V Susan Hudson, a 57-foot fully-equipped
coastal oceans research vessel, and is the home port for the R/V Cape
Hatteras, a 135-foot oceanographic research vessel operated for the
National Science Foundation by the Duke/University of North Carolina Oceanographic
Consortium.
The laboratory also maintains an electronics shop, a workshop, a stockroom, and a purchasing department.
Research Laboratory Facilities 
Each research laboratory building is air-conditioned and equipped with running seawater through a PVC system. There are tanks, water tables, aquaria, autoclaves, ovens, and outdoor continuous-flow growth facilities. In addition to commonly used laboratory equipment, the following are available: refrigerated centrifuges, fluorometers, spectrophotometers, balances, pH meters, both compound and inverted microscopes equipped with cameras and Nomarski optics, both fume and laminar flow hoods, liquid scintillation counter, constant temperature equipment, and HPLC.
The Marine Laboratory houses a Duke University public access cluster, with thirteen high speed Windows XP workstations, each with scientific, productivity, statistical, and GIS software available. The graduate computer facility has eight additional workstations, plus a high-capacity duplex laser printer, color laser printer, and a large format plotter. Flatbed and slide scanning, digitizing tablet, and image analysis capabilities are also available. Researchers and students are provided with secure server space, remotely accessible and backed up daily. The Marine Lab is wired with a combination 100 Mb/s and 1 Gb/s internal LAN, and a 45 Mb/s DS3 connection to the internet. Standard wireless networking is also available in many locations on campus. There are several computer/video projectors for presentations and two standard video conference units for face-to-face meetings with remote locations. Two full-time IT professionals are available for support and systems administration issues.
I.E. Gray Library-Auditorium
Located in the building are the 1,917-square-foot auditorium with stage, a library, the librarian's office, and one seminar room. The auditorium has a seating capacity of approximately 200 and is suitable for lectures, seminars, symposia, and small regional or national meetings. Inquiries concerning use of auditorium or seminar room space should be addressed to Dominick Brugnolotti (telephone 252-504-7652, or e-mail drb1@duke.edu).
Library Facilities
Pearse Memorial Library, a branch of the Perkins Library System, supports the research and teaching needs of the Duke Marine Laboratory by providing access to print and electronic resources covering marine biology, marine policy, oceanography, coastal and marine ecology, and coastal environmental management. The library subscribes to 55 scholarly journals and oversees a print collection of approximately 22,000 volumes. Document delivery services enable DUML faculty, students, and staff to retrieve books and photocopied articles from Durham campus libraries and libraries outside the Duke University system. Public access computers and photocopiers are available to all library users.
Natural
History Resource Center
The Natural History Resource Center (NHRC) preserves and disseminates knowledge concerning ecological systems and the distribution and abundance of marine plants and animals. The center consists of an extensive reference collection of marine organisms (the museum), a library of taxonomic references and ecological publications, a large outdoor seawater facility, and a research laboratory designed to facilitate the collection, preservation and identification of marine organisms. The center provides students, researchers and lay persons with advice on the natural history of North Carolina's marine ecosystems. Dr. William Kirby-Smith is the director.