Grand Staircase Escalante Field Center

General Information

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The Grand Staircase Escalante Field Center is in the developmental stages. The Center will be open to all universities, researchers and educational institutions. The Field Center will be operated as a cooperative endeavor between the Bureau of Land Management and the Grand Staircase Escalante Partners.

With its creation in 1996, the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument became a 1.9 millon acre laboratory offering unparellel research opportunities for geologists, paleontologists, archeologists, historians, biologists and social scientists. As the last place to be mapped in the United States, the area still retains its untrammeled, unexplored and wild nature.

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A website to distribute info on past research endeavors is being developed at this time.

Contact Information

Melanie Boone-Reznick

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Location

Garfield County, Lab facilities located in Escalante in Interagency Visitor Center

Headquarters:

37.77 N latitude, 111.6 W longitude

Size

1.9 million acres

Elevation

1096-3048 m (ave. elevation 1524 m)

Annual Precipitation

246 mm

Minimum and Maximum annual temperatures

Jan. 40.5°F max and 14.1°F min

July 88.9°F max and 54.3°F min

Facilities

Laboratory, library, office and auditorium.

Overnight facilities

Planned

Personnel

Planned

Databases

Planned

Established

2009