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Funding

The Lizard Island Research Station recovers all operating costs, including staff salaries, from the following sources:

• A daily bench fee charged to users that covers accommodation, use of small boats, labs, aquarium system, scuba tanks and air fills
• Recovering from users costs that are not covered by the bench fee
• Profits from sale of merchandise and from hire of dive equipment
• A relatively small annual contribution from the Australian Museum Trust

The fees paid by users do not contribute to capital development of the Research Station. Instead, most of the Station's funding for capital items comes from the Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation. This trust was set up in 1978 to raise funds from the private sector for development of the Research Station and for coral reef research. The Foundation also provides the funds for the Lizard Island Doctoral Fellowships program. The US-based Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation, established in late 2000, also aims to provide funding for infrastructure and research at Lizard Island.

Additional funding for capital development was obtained in 1995 through an Australian Research Council infrastructure grant to the Station in conjunction with James Cook University.

Relevant links

• Bench Fees
• Other costs involved in a visit to the Research Station
• Merchandise
• Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation
• Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation

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