Coastal Waters Laboratory

The Coastal Waters Laboratory is an academic laboratory operated by the College of Sciences of San Diego State University (SDSU). It is located on a coastal site on the grounds of the old San Diego Naval Training Center (now part of Liberty Station).

Research

The Laboratory focuses research on environmental problems on the coast of southern California environmental and ecological problems caused by urbanization in the coastal environment (at the land-water interface).

Current Research Projects

• Coastal GIS Center
• Wetlands Restoration Center (Pacific Estuarine Research Lab)
• Coastal and Marine Ecology Group
• Beach Water Quality Center

HPWREN

Data is transferred back from the Laboratory via the High Performance Research and Education Network (HPWREN).

Equipment

• 50,000 square foot Coastal Waters Laboratory
• 10,000 square feet devoted to outdoor aquaria and a greenhouse
• Continuous flow seawater system from San Diego Bay
• Large hall for classes, lectures, and workshops on resource issues
• Boat maintenance and SCUBA diving facility
• Specialized analytical, research, and wet laboratories, including:
  • Coastal Zone GIS Laboratory
  • Virus and Pathogen Laboratory

Coastal Zone Campus

Adjacent to the Laboratory is another research laboratory, operated by the Metropolitan Wastewater Department (MWWD) of the City of San Diego, in order to consolidate marine monitoring and analytical operations. Together, this has created a “Coastal Zone Campus” on San Diego Bay to allow mutual access to and sharing of new and innovative research ideas and activities among federal regional, and local entities, and nationally known scientists and experts, in order to exchange information related to the coastal zone environment.

See also

• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• San Diego State University

External links

• San Diego State University
• SDSU College of Sciences
• Official home page for the SDSU Coastal Waters Laboratory