The School of Tropical Biology has or has access to a very wide range of facilities for teaching and research. These include:
- Paluma - rain forest site
- Kirrama - rain rain forest-sclerophyl ecotone
- Fletcherview - savanna/arid zone site
- The Australian Canopy Crane Research Facility
- Orpheus Island Research Station
- Horn Island in the Torres Strait
- Molecular Ecology and Evolution Facility
- Histology and microscopy laboratories
- Advanced Analytical Centre provides elemental spectrometry, electron and confocal microscopy, x-ray diffraction and fluorescence and genetic analysis
- James Cook University Herbarium
- North Queensland Algal Identification / Culturing Facility (NQAIF) is a laboratory for identification and culturing of tropical marine and freshwater algae and to conduct ecotoxicological and cell biological research using tropical phytoplankton
- Water chemistry laboratory, operated by the ACTFR
- Computer teaching laboratories
- OzFACE (Free Air CO2 Enrichment) - Australian Savanna Global Change Facility
- Controlled temperature rooms
- Controlled environment facility
- Glasshouses, shadehouses and agroforestry plot
- Our Aquarium Complex contains various marine and freahwater systems ranging from small tanks to a 150 000 L system.
