CIIMAR offers:

1) Aquaculture platform, fully dedicated to the experimentation and maintenance of a wide range of aquatic organisms (macro and microalgae, fish, cephalopods and other invertebrates) and includes state-of-the-art recirculation aquaculture systems (RAS); systems for toxicology and infection studies with specific effluent treatments; a zebrafish facility; hyperbaric chambers able to simulate from 0 to 1000 meters depth; and a phytoplankton culture facility.

2) Laboratories and Platforms for Analytical Chemistry, Biodiscovery and Biorefinery, Bioinformatics, Culture Collections, Genomic and Proteomics and Ecotoxicology. Instrumentation available includes Real-time PCR, DGGE, RT-QPCR, HPLC-instrumentation, LC-MS, GC-MS, Segmented Flow Analyzers, Atomic Absorption Spectrometers, Organic Elemental Analyzer-Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer, fluorescence, stereo and inverted microscopes, spectrophotometers, ultra-freezers. An HPC facility is available to support research in numerical ocean modelling, ecological modelling and bioinformatics. It also includes access to collections of microalgae, cyanobacteria, planctomycetes, and bacteria isolates from sponges.

3) Ecosystem access to intertidal and subtidal areas and estuarine ecosystems (access on foot, boat and scuba diving), buoys equipped with sensors for environmental monitoring, GPS-equipped drifters, CTD and other means used to study coastal and estuarine dynamics and associated time-series biological and environmental data. CIIMAR Scientific Diving Center is fully equipped to support research underwater with tools and equipment for observational surveys, manipulative experiments, biological and non-biological sample collection, and image collection.