The island's facilities are simple, attractive and designed for utility. SML generates its own electricity and maintains systems for sewage disposal and fresh and salt water distribution. The SML island operating staff of about twelve provides dining services and facilities support for our island campus and waterfront. Housing Program participants are housed two or four to a room in four modern dormitories with washroom facilities in each dorm.
Fresh water is at a premium, so showers are limited, but salt water bathing is encouraged.
Kiggins Commons has showers, dining and lecture halls, a darkroom, and a recreation area. The main laboratory, Palmer-Kinne Laboratory, is equipped with bench space for sixty people, both compound and dissecting microscopes, and sea tables with continuously running seawater for maintaining organisms. Three smaller laboratories are housed in the Grass Foundation Laboratory, Kiggins Commons and Laighton House. The library, classrooms, infirmary, and administrative offices are located in Laighton House and Hamilton House. Cick here for pictures of the Appledore Island campus.