Biosphere 2 Offers New Public Tour Attractions

12/19/08

The University of Arizona's Biosphere 2 has expanded its daily public tours just as the facility begins its busy touring season. "Biosphere 2 visitors take 'under the glass' tours where they can see and smell the only rain forest in the desert," Biosphere 2 Director Travis Huxman said. Tours also pass through Biosphere 2's desert and savanna, and near a marsh and a million-gallon saltwater ocean. And those aren't even the new attractions. "Visitors can now explore more of this one-of-a-kind facility, and learn more about the science that goes on here," Huxman said, "and that's exciting."

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Biosphere 2's next chapter

12/10/08

Biosphere 2, like Earth (Biosphere 1), is a complex, evolving organism that’s not easily classified, labeled or pigeonholed. The University of Arizona’s glass-enclosed living laboratory sprawls across three acres of high desert near Oracle. It’s part laboratory, part tourist attraction, part sustainability demo site, part conference center, part public-education facility.

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UA to Open STEM Teacher Education Resource Center at Biosphere 2

12/3/08

Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz) has awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant to The University of Arizona's B2 Institute, located at Biosphere 2, to establish a teacher resource and training center that will expand the quality and retention of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teachers in Arizona. The Philecology Foundation is partnering and providing a matching grant to fully fund the Center.

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