The Ocean Sciences Department includes faculty and students involved in oceanography and other marine sciences and sponsors undergraduate and graduate courses in these disciplines. Through faculty sponsors, students have access to a wide variety of research facilities and equipment, including on-campus analytical chemistry, geology and molecular biology laboratories for marine research, computing and imaging facilities, an on-shore marine laboratory two miles from campus (Long Marine Laboratory) with aquariums and holding tanks that are supplied with running sea water, and a unique field station on Año Nuevo Island (19 miles north of Santa Cruz) especially suited for studies on pinnipeds and marine birds.

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