In addition, there are many excellent restaurants in the Galveston area. Laundry facilities are also available on site. The Marie Hall is staffed with a full-time captain and mate. The vessels are all available for charter by the hour, the day and longer. Set-up and operation of aquaria systems for experiments can be arranged for an additional fee.
Housing is in dormitory style rooms, two beds to a room, with a separate bath and shower.
Within walking distance is a university cafeteria with food vendors, as well as several local restaurants. Additionally, due to the extraordinarily high water quality requirements of cephalopods, our crystal clear recirculating seawater systems are highly adaptable to a wide range of other marine species, both vertebrate and invertebrate. We can maintain virtually any species of fish or small shark as well as crustaceans, molluscs and living soft and hard corals. Custom built glass filming tanks can be fabricated in Galveston. A 7m diameter by 2m deep circular tank system, with filming windows, is also large enough to accomodate scuba divers if needed for in-water filming.