Field Trip

Field Trip

• Complete Guidebook (23 Mb!) (pdf version)
• Cover Sheets & Tentative Agenda (pdf version) - We will be traveling by bus to the top of the Catalina Mountains near Tucson (see maps below) to observe and learn about work being conducted in the Santa Catalina portion of the larger JRB-SCM CZO. This is a four hour round trip (but broken up with several stops. We will have a bag lunch so you might want to bring a day pack to carry this and personal gear (water bottle, camera, sun screen) as we will be hiking less than 1 mile round-trip at some sites (max elev. ~8500 ft). Day-time temperatures can be expected to be 60-100 degF.

Presentation Fact Sheets

• Soldier Canyon
  • Jen M - Fact Sheet
  • Jon P - Fact Sheet
  • Catlin O - Fact Sheet
• Mount Bigelow
  • Greg B-G - Fact Sheet
  • Shirley P - Fact Sheet
  • Erik Hamerlynck - Fact Sheet
  • Krystine N - Fact Sheet
  • Tyson S - Fact Sheet
• Marshall Gulch
  • Angie J - Fact Sheet - Marshall Gulch Overview
  • Angie J - Fact Sheet - Chemical Weathering
  • Ingo H - Fact Sheet - Isotope Hydrology
  • Rebecca L - Fact Sheet - Soils
  • Clare S - Fact Sheet - Soil Carbon Flux

Maps of Tucson B2 Area and field trip route - Mount Lemmon -

• Map to Biosphere 2, Map
• Map to Biosphere 2, AZ 77 to Parking lot
• Map of B2 Campus
• Map of B2 Casitas
• Map of route from Biosphere 2 to Mt. Lemmon, Map
• Santa Catalina Hwy (Mt Lemmon), Map

Other Links

National CZO Web site: criticalzone.org

Links to places nearby to visit:

• Biosphere 2, www.b2science.org
• Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum, desertmuseum.org
• Tucson Botanic Gardens
• Sabino Canyon
• Pima Air and Space Museum