Facilities on the Main Campus

The main UCSC campus is spectacularly located at the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking Monterey Bay—the country's largest National Marine Sanctuary and one of the world's most diverse marine ecosystems. The main campus's Earth and Marine Sciences Building has Institute of Marine Sciences-managed office spaces and laboratories to support researchers, postdoctoral scholars, and visiting scientists. A suite of shared-use IMS laboratories is open to faculty, researchers, postdoctoral scholars, specialists, and students associated with IMS.