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11:00 AM Sunday – Tucson Prime Timers and Prime Timers of Phoenix Joint Venture to Biosphere 2
March 3 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Tucson Prime Timers and Prime Timers of Phoenix Joint Venture to Biosphere 2
Sunday March 3rd at 11:00 AM
32540 S. Biosphere Rd.,
Oracle, AZ 85623
520-621-4800
Tickets are $25.00 for Seniors
The drive to Biosphere 2 will take approximately 1.5-hours. The self-guided walking tour ticket price for seniors is $25.00. The tour will take approximately 1 hour 15 minutes to complete. Tickets can be purchased online to save time entering and there is an app for cell phones to narrate the tour. See link below. Two members of the Tucson Chapter (John and Mike) have invited the PTOP group to a luncheon after the tour.
Several PTOP members are willing to carpool to the Biosphere 2.
After the all the RSVPs are in a list of those attending and those offering to drive will be posted and arrangements can be made for carpooling
The World’s Largest Earth Science Experiment.
The University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 is the world’s largest controlled environment dedicated to understanding the implication, mitigation and adaptation solutions for resilience of our planet (Biosphere 1) due to the global climate crisis. Biosphere 2 is a meso-scale Earth science facility encompassing 3.14 acres and houses five synthetic ecosystems encased in a glass and metal spaceframe. Operational for 30 years and counting, these meso-scale ecosystems include the world’s largest controlled systems of tropical rain forest, desert, savanna, mangrove, and ocean.
Watch a Ted Talk video on YouTube from one of the eight inhabitants of the Biosphere 2 experiment.
