Our graduate students have the advantage of working in some of the most advanced, state-of-the-art scientific facilities in the world, all located within the Museum. These include three molecular laboratories; powerful parallel computing clusters; a frozen tissue collection with a one-million-sample capacity; an imaging and microscopy laboratory; vertebrate paleontology and osteology preparation laboratories; and more. They also have access to the Southwestern Research Station, a Museum field research facility in the heart of a species-rich area of southeastern Arizona, the Black Rock Forest, a 4,000 acre site with field station facilities situated 50 miles north of New York City, and a consortium partnership with South Africa’s "SALT" telescope, the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere. Complementing these more typical "laboratories", students have access to the "natural labs" of field programs throughout the world, vast organismal and anthropological collections, and various research facilities shared with collaborating institutions.