Many graduate students in the Program take the tropical ecology course taught in Costa Rica, and several have done field work at the field station at La Selva. Graduate students have also taken courses and carried out research at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado and at the Friday Harbor Laboratories in Washington, as well as other field stations. In recent years, graduate students have conducted field work at sites throughout North America, as well as in Africa, South America, the Pacific, and Europe. Peripherals include several laser printers, inkjet and dye-sublimation color printer, flatbed scanners, and other hardware. For more information see BSCF and Sun user guide .
Extensive software is available for the general use of graduate students.
TeX and LaTeX typesetting software is also available. Ethernet connections link equipment in the BSCF to most labs and offices. High-speed connections across campus allow users to access computers located in other departments, and, via the Internet, all over the world. Most faculty members have computers located in their labs, with software and hardware tailored to their individual research programs. Additional microcomputers and workstations for general use are located in clusters elsewhere on campus.