Wave Tank. Hosted at the Narragansett Bay Campus, the wave tank is a 30m long, 3.6m wide 1.8m deep tank with a hinged, flapper style hydraulic wave maker at the bottom. The LabVIEW and Matlab based control system is capable of producing both regular and irregular waves in a wide array of wave heights and periods. It has 20m of adjustable beach for different shoaling profiles and a 2 m/s towing carriage. It is used for a broad range of testing, including work on tsunamis, wave energy extraction, acoustic measurement of surface waves and wave-induced forcing on marine structures.

Acoustic Tank. Located at the Narragansett Bay Campus, the acoustic tank is a 25-foot long, 13-foot wide, 11-foot deep pool used for experimentation with hydrophones, underwater camera calibrations, and autonomous and remote operated marine robotics testing. The tank has an electronics and computer station for signal processing and data acquisition and also a gantry system above it with two rotating positioning towers.