The objectives of the SLTB are outlined in the Strategic Plan as follows:

• To advance the education of the public in the science of low temperature biology.
• To advance the science of low temperature biology.
• To promote research into the science of low temperature biology.
  
• To disseminate the useful results to the public.

Interests range from natural mechanisms of cold tolerance, the cryopreservation of cells and tissues for medical, agricultural and conservation purposes, low temperature microscopy, through to the physics and physical chemistry of water and ice; and heat and mass transfer in all types of biological systems.