Southampton Graduate Campus is one of the few undergraduate institutions with an on-campus Marine Station.

The College marine station is located on Old Fort Pond in Shinnecock Bay, a short walk from the main campus. From the facility, students and faculty have direct access to the Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The marine station is the site of five laboratories and a fleet of boats including the R/V Paumanok, a 44-foot ocean-going vessel used for coastal research, and the R/V Shinnecock, a 35-foot platform craft used for sampling local bays and estuaries. Smaller outboard craft are equipped with winches, davits and metering wheels for sampling instruments such as oxygen analyzers, STD-probes, and trawls. The aquarium/wet laboratory allows maintenance of live marine species throughout the year for classroom use.

A three-laboratory facility was completed in early 1986 to complement the existing structures. These laboratories house standard equipment including an autoanalyser, atomic absorption spectrophotometer, salinometer, fluorimeter, osmometer, and Coulter Counter. Faculty utilize these facilities for their research, and students are encouraged to utilize these facilities and instruments during their course work and while undertaking independent studies.

photos of Marine Station