Graduate Student Housing for Bodega Marine Laboratory and Reserve

University Of California-Davis, Davis CA

Investigators

Abstract

This award provides partial support for the construction of a 3200 sq.ft. graduate student dormitory at the Bodega Marine Laboratory (BML). The Bodega Marine Laboratory and Reserve are dedicated to multi-disciplinary teaching and research in both marine and terrestrial habitats, serving students and researchers from the University of California at Davis and 66 other academic institutions during the last year, including over 100 graduate students from 24 institutions. BML and the Reserve have experienced robust growth in research and teaching use by resident and visiting scientists, graduate students, and undergraduates during the past thirty-six years. Use by graduate students has increased by 65% in the last four years. The new housing will permit more effective use of the Laboratory, the surrounding Reserve, and adjacent habitats for research and training. Existing facilities are inadequate to support the growing number of graduate student requests to work at the Laboratory and Reserve, thus limiting the capacity of BML to support one of its chief missions.