Students and faculty have access to a wide array of research facilities, labs, and special collections—all tools to help them carry out research and get real-world experience. And at Humboldt, unlike most schools, students get involved while they are undergraduates.
Just minutes from campus, the lab for marine education and research includes a system that recirculates seawater, a remotely operated underwater vehicle, a wet laboratory for rearing marine invertebrates and fishes, and a culture room for larval invertebrates and algae.
Telonicher Marine Lab website »
Aboard Humboldt’s 90-foot ocean going research and teaching vessel, students can collect and observe marine plants and animals in their natural environment. The Coral Sea has two labs inside and the deck space to give students the room to work with box cores, dredges, nets and other large oceanographic equipment.
R.V. Coral Sea website »
A globally recognized leader in clean and renewable energy technology research, the Center’s work involves technology demonstration, project development, energy systems analysis, and education and training. It also performs feasibility studies, resource assessments, and energy planning studies.
Schatz Energy Research Center website »
This is one of the largest teaching collections of living plants in California, with 11,500 square feet of instructional display space and supporting facilities, and more than 1,000 plant species in 187 families.
Dennis K. Walker Greenhouse website »
These spaces are used by a variety of academic disciplines, and specialized equipment and instrumentation, and bench space for training and research projects.
Core Research Facility website »
The second largest museum of its kind in the California State University system, the vertebrate museum houses 8,750 specimens, including skins and skeletal material from a variety of terrestrial, aquatic, marine, and volant mammals.
Vertebrate Museum website »
This facility has more than 104,000 specimens, and has a strong emphasis on flora of northwest California and southwest Oregon. It’s also a botanical resource for students and faculty, as well as community members and professional botanists.
Vascular Plant Herbarium website »
With over 15,000 specimens, this collection emphasizes birds. It also has nearly 3,000 mammal skins and skeletal material. The collection is mainly from California's North Coast, but includes specimens from 47 U.S. states and 46 countries.
Wildlife Museum website »
One of the best-equipped university fire research facilities in the United States, Humboldt’s fire lab has a fire platform, ventilation hood, and a thermal imaging camera used in the lab and during wildland fires.
Wildland Fire Lab website »
The campus hatchery has a recirculating freshwater system with incubators, troughs, fiberglass circular tanks, concrete circular tanks, and raceways.
Fish Hatchery website »
This is a physics laboratory for uses like short-range tests of Newton's 1/r2 law and the Weak Equivalence Principle, searching for new fundamental forces, and investigating the mechanism behind dark energy.
Gravity Lab website »
This observatory features a new 16-inch telescope and a 12-inch telescope—both GPS-located and computer-controlled—as well as several smaller telescopes.
Fickle Hill Observatory website »
