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 The
Aquatic Biology Program is housed in 3 modern buildings on the UA campus in
Tuscaloosa.
The Bevill Science and Engineering building (23,000 ft2) houses the Experimental Mesocosm Facility,
Water Chemistry Lab, and GIS Lab as well as offices and research labs for
several Aquatic Biology faculty. Mary Harmon Bryant Hall (30,000 ft2) houses the scientific collections, Molecular
Systematics Lab, as well as offices and research labs for Aquatic Biology
faculty. The main biology building (95,000 ft2)
contains departmental administrative offices, classrooms, the Optical
Analysis Lab as well as faculty laboratories and offices.
The Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium campus (15 ha), the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, is situated on Dauphin Island
(connected to the mainland by bridge) located about 64 km south of Mobile, AL.
It is a completely self-maintained facility with vehicles and boats,
including the 20 meter steel-hull R\V A. E. Verrill. Separate buildings
house classroom and research space, a running sea-water system, a library
focusing on all aspects of environmental sciences, diving equipment and
facilities, and an array of sophisticated laboratory and shipboard
instrumentation for data acquisition for classroom and research application.
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