What Is Hopkins Marine Station?
Hopkins Marine StationHopkins Marine Station is a marine biology research and teaching facility that operates as a branch of Stanford’s Department of Biology. The Station is located approximately 90 miles south of the main campus on the scenic Monterey Peninsula. Surrounded by the rich, diversely populated intertidal and offshore waters of a marine reserve, the Station is ideally situated for research and teaching in marine biology, cellular and developmental biology, neurobiology, comparative physiology, behavior, population genetics, ecology and biomechanics. Ten faculty members and approximately 25 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are resident at the Station year round.