For the Safety of the Group instructors of visiting groups will be required to stay in the dorms with their classes or to provide a designated teaching assistant assigned this responsibility.  The name of the responsible party will be provided to the Business Office prior to arrival.

Teaching Space

Classrooms of various sizes are available throughout the year. Costs per day are included in the Rate Schedule. Compound or dissecting microscopes are available for an additional per day set up fee (see Rate Schedule).

Equipment

The Marine Lab makes available to visitors items needed for field work such as seines, sieves, shovels, buckets, as well as routine glassware in the labs.

Boats

For Boat Reservations, contact:

• Lanier Mitchum
  252-504-7506
  E-Mail: marineops@nicholas.duke.edu

Boats of varying sizes from canoes to 24' runabouts, to our 57' R/V Susan Hudson which can be used for trawling and dredging are available to visitors. First priority for their use must be given to classes when they are in session. The rates charged are intended to partially defray the cost of operations and maintenance.

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 laypersons with advice on the natural history of North Carolina's marine ecosystems. Dr. William Kirby-Smith is the director.

Individual and Class Rate Schedule (bed and board, dining hall, lab/lecture space)

Letter to teachers (pdf file)

FOR INFORMATION OR RESERVATIONS CONTACT:

• Dominick Brugnolotti
  Duke University Marine Laboratory
  135 Duke Marine Lab Road
  Beaufort NC 28516
  Phone/Voice Mail: 252-504-7652
  FAX: 252-504-7648
  E-Mail: drb1@duke.edu