Aquaculture Facility Fisheries and wildlife research is enhanced by the availability of laboratory and field facilities both within and outside of the department. An FW Laboratory College Computing Lab Computer facilities, readily available to graduate students within the department, are outstanding. Numerous Macintosh and IBM micro-computers and Sun workstations are in the general labs and labs of individual faculty.
Laser printers are also available to all graduate students for thesis and publication needs.
A computerized system for generating technical 35 mm slides is available to students. Departmental computers are fully networked to a central file server with extensive software. An e-mail system provides ready access to other parts of the University and, via Internet, to nodes throughout the world. Additional microcomputers are available to students in the College of Natural Resources computing lab, used primarily for classroom use. The University computing centers offer essentially unlimited mainframe capacity for analysis of very large data sets.