Monitoring traffic

Training: How to Use the Hestia Traffic App

February 21, 2025

Help improve the understanding of road emissions in urban areas by collecting vehicle data using the Hestia traffic app. This brief field training will be held at SIA’s Tucson office, so volunteers can walk through the steps, ask questions, and get practice using the app.

FotoFauna class at Tucson zoo

FotoFauna Class at Tucson Zoo

February 20, 2025

This April 19 and May 10, Sky Island Alliance is hosting a two-part class at Tucson’s Reid Park Zoo for folks interested in joining FotoFauna and learning how to set up a wildlife camera in their yard as part of our community science project. We’d love for you to join us!

FotoFauna class at Tucson zoo

FotoFauna Class at Tucson Zoo

This April 19 and May 10, Sky Island Alliance is hosting a two-part class at Tucson’s Reid Park Zoo for folks interested in joining FotoFauna and learning how to set up a wildlife camera in their yard as part of our community science project. We’d love for you to join us!

Tucson spring cleaning

Volunteer Appreciation Night

February 19, 2025

Save the date! On March 19, from 5-7 p.m., we’re hosting a gathering at Tucson brew-pub MotoSonora to celebrate you all — volunteers past, present, and future. More details to come. We’re looking forward to seeing you all and bringing folks together to honor the incredible work done this past year throughout the Sky Islands.

Don Swann

Share Your Appreciation for Our National Parks

February 18, 2025

Do you have a favorite place or memory in one of the Sky Island region’s multitude of parks that’s special to you? Or have you connected with or been inspired…
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Fire in the Sonoran Desert

Saving Our Saguaros: Managing Grassification of the Sonoran Desert

February 12, 2025

Join us for our next virtual Coffee Break to learn more about a pressing issue in our region and what we can do to help. Our guest speaker will be Kim Franklin, associate director of conservation at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

Sonoran desert

Tracking Urban Emissions Through Plant Radiocarbon and Traffic Modeling

We’re back this spring with another community science project that builds on last year’s efforts and brings two volunteer opportunities to the Tucson area. In this virtual talk, we share…
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Monitoring traffic

Test Delete

February 11, 2025

Did you know that we can identify fossil fuel emissions in the air by sampling annual plants and counting cars? Knowing where greenhouse gases are and at what concentrations can…
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Training: How to Use the Hestia Traffic App

February 10, 2025

Help improve the understanding of road emissions in urban areas by collecting vehicle data using the Hestia traffic app. This brief field training will be held at SIA’s Tucson office, so volunteers can walk through the steps, ask questions, and get practice using the app.

Training: How to Use the Hestia Traffic App

Help improve the understanding of road emissions in urban areas by collecting vehicle data using the Hestia traffic app. This brief field training will be held at SIA’s Tucson office, so volunteers can walk through the steps, ask questions, and get practice using the app.