"...beach living, small group chemistry...[it's] a chance to focus on a discipline for an entire semester
in a way [that's] not really available back at school."

DDW '89

The program operates within the semester comprehensive fee. Higher room and board fees at smaller labs require that students budget at Davidson's double-room rate and 19-meal plan. Beaufort-PLUS accomodations does offer 21 meals, but the rooms we can offer students are usually higher density than on-campus doubles.

Davidson uses small, 6-room Duke Marine Lab dorms on the old quad. Each room has a built-in triple-decker bunk bed. Rooming is on a single-sex basis only.

At Sapelo, sleeping arrangements are in trailers or a dorm. The Keys Marine Lab provides bunks in a dormitory-style setting.

We camp in Tampa, the Everglades, and on the Dry Tortugas. At Tampa and the Dry Tortugas, camp facilities include flush toilets. (Fresh water showers are also available in Tampa.) The Everglades campsite, however, lacks such luxuries.

Three meals a day, 7 days a week, are provided at reasonably normal hours. At Sapelo, in Tampa, and in Layton, students do some or all of the cooking. For the time spent in the 'glades and Ft. Jefferson, all meals will be modified Davidson Outdoors menus. The only food expenses individuals must cover are the inevitable snacks as well as some "fast food" stops on travel days between research stations (1 or 2 meals on about 5 days—a maximum of about 8 or 9 meals).