Our Marine Station
Tobacco Caye Marine Station has been situated on the island of Tobacco Caye since September 2008. Since then, we have hosted thousands of study abroad students from around the world and have helped to educate local Belizean students about the reef.
Our Mission
“Tobacco Caye Marine Station aspires to become a leader in immersive education utilising sustainable conservation practices”.
Our Vision
To continue to provide enrolled students and their faculty leaders immersive experiential education programs and contribute meaningfully to ongoing scientific research projects while Tobacco Caye Marine Station excels in promoting efficient and effective sustainable

Lectures
Marine hazards – mandatory
Intro to the marine environment of Belize
Corals of the Belize Barrier Reef
Marine ecology of Belize – mangroves, sea grass and coral reefs
United Nation’s SDG 14 – Life below the water
Climate change and coral reefs
Fish identification
Ocean Plastic and Pollution
Tourism and the marine environment of Belize
Symbiosis in the marine environment of Belize
The invasive red lionfish

Classroom & Lab Equipment
Core samplers
Sediment sieves
Transects
Quadracts
Petri dishes
Underwater slates
Micron nets and flow metre
Olympus TG-6 underwater camera
Water table
Coral health charts and data slates
3 x microscopes
Lionfish dissection equipment
Lionfish spears and containment unit
Literature and books on Caribbean reef ecology and fish ID
Projector with whiteboard
Chalk and blackboard
1 x station laptop