Desert Laboratory at Tumamoc Hill
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Tumamoc Hill, home to the Desert Laboratory, is a site of 4,000 years of human use, 115+ years of science, and over 1,000 people visiting a day.
Free kids art program going on right now at the bottom of the hill! Join us!
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Free kids art program going on right now at the bottom of the hill! Join us!
Join us for a free talk about native plants on Dec 3!
November 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Join us for a free talk about native plants on Dec 3!
Little baby saying hello during on of our outreach events
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Little baby saying hello during on of our outreach events
U of A students are conducting research on the hill to figure out why some saguaros are more vulnerable to dying in windstorms than others.
November 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
U of A students are conducting research on the hill to figure out why some saguaros are more vulnerable to dying in windstorms than others.
At our mo they research seminar Dr. Albert Barberan talked about the value of considering soil microbes for arid land restoration!
November 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
At our mo they research seminar Dr. Albert Barberan talked about the value of considering soil microbes for arid land restoration!
Packed house for our second free youth event! We met some reptiles and made art!
October 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Packed house for our second free youth event! We met some reptiles and made art!
Something new is on the hill! We will be collecting data of birds, bats and butterflies at Tumamoc! Signage to be added soon!
October 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Something new is on the hill! We will be collecting data of birds, bats and butterflies at Tumamoc! Signage to be added soon!
Tumamoc tabling community events!
October 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Tumamoc tabling community events!
Our annual wildlife extravaganza was a hit! Over 400 people came through this free event to meet live animals, learn about wildlife and get a ton of give aways!
October 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Our annual wildlife extravaganza was a hit! Over 400 people came through this free event to meet live animals, learn about wildlife and get a ton of give aways!
Morning babies on the hill! 😍
September 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Morning babies on the hill! 😍
Our presenters for the very first youth art and science activity on the hill!
September 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Our presenters for the very first youth art and science activity on the hill!
Local Girl Scout troop trying out our shoe cleaner at the bottom of the hill. The shoe cleaner assists in removing invasive plant seeds from shoes to restrict movement of weeds on Tumamoc!
September 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Local Girl Scout troop trying out our shoe cleaner at the bottom of the hill. The shoe cleaner assists in removing invasive plant seeds from shoes to restrict movement of weeds on Tumamoc!
New cohort of UA students who are trying to figure out why some saguaros in Tumamoc died in a windstorm while others were fine
September 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
New cohort of UA students who are trying to figure out why some saguaros in Tumamoc died in a windstorm while others were fine
Starting up our wildly popular author series again this year! Free and open to the public! Please join us.
August 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Starting up our wildly popular author series again this year! Free and open to the public! Please join us.
Mark your calendars for another amazing free event!
July 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Mark your calendars for another amazing free event!
We got another visit from one of our favorite desert animals!!!
July 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We got another visit from one of our favorite desert animals!!!
We had a visitor to the offices today! 😍
June 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We had a visitor to the offices today! 😍
We are famous! The Desert Lab was featured on the cover of the most recent issue of the American Journal of Botany where work conducted on saguaros on the hill was recently published.
June 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
We are famous! The Desert Lab was featured on the cover of the most recent issue of the American Journal of Botany where work conducted on saguaros on the hill was recently published.
We host a small number of free, indoor outreach events on the hill during the summer. Join our email list to hear about everything going on on the hill!
June 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
We host a small number of free, indoor outreach events on the hill during the summer. Join our email list to hear about everything going on on the hill!
Indigenous students from US and TO community college helped install agaves into a new garden at the bottom of the hill. Signage to come soon!
May 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Indigenous students from US and TO community college helped install agaves into a new garden at the bottom of the hill. Signage to come soon!
Chairman Austin Nunez provided a blessing to our bottom of the hill garden last week. We will be slowly developing the area by installing native plants and useful signage!
May 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Chairman Austin Nunez provided a blessing to our bottom of the hill garden last week. We will be slowly developing the area by installing native plants and useful signage!