Oceanographic Campus

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Nova Southeastern University’s Oceanographic Campus is the home of the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center, the hub of cutting-edge research in marine and environmental sciences. Located only 12 miles from NSU’s Fort Lauderdale/Davie campus, the campus is nestled at the end of Von D. Mizell and Eula Johnson State Park directly on the entrance channel of Port Everglades, within 100 yards of the Atlantic Ocean. This location gives us unique access to the world’s third-largest coral barrier reef system, known as the Florida Reef Tract.

The Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences is on this campus and offers undergraduate degrees in Marine Biology, and Environmental Science, a master's degree in Marine Science, and a Ph.D. in Marine Biology/Oceanography. 

This 10-acre campus has five buildings. The most recent building—the NSU Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center—was completed in 2012. It is environmentally friendly and state of the art with 86,000 square feet of usable space. The building is silver LEED certified. The activities in this research building are multi-disciplinary to address national and international priorities in coral reef research in five thematic areas:

• Impacts of global and local stressors
• Geospatial analysis and mapping
• Deep sea coral reefs and organisms
• Genetic and genomic connectivity
• Hydrodynamics

This building includes space for offices, research laboratories, collaboration, research training, and fieldwork staging. Laboratories are equipped with the latest technology for mapping and geospatial analysis, microbiology, genetics and genomics, histology, geology, ecological modeling, deep sea optical and vision, ichthyology, coral reef assessment, monitoring, and restoration, and wet laboratories for seawater usage and organism maintenance. The building houses a research library for the many disciplines of marine science, an auditorium, seminar rooms, a seawater purification and delivery system, and an outside experimentation facility. The facilities also include a SCUBA gear storage area and tank fill station for regular air and nitrox.