Abbreviation | SASI |
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Formation | 1986 |
Type | 501(c)(3) Non-profit corporation |
Purpose | Education |
Location | |
Region served | Tucson metropolitan area |
Website | https://web.archive.org/web/20130722171719/http://www.sasionline.org/ |
The Sonoran Arthropod Studies Institute (established in 1986) is a non-profit organization, located in the Sonoran Desert in Tucson, Arizona, whose mission is to educate the public about arthropods. [1] The Institute routinely conducts field trips and educational visits, as well as maintains a collection of living and preserved arthropods. [2] The Sonoran Arthropod Studies Institute has a membership of about 600. [3] Since 1993, the Sonoran Arthropod Studies Institute has hosted the annual Invertebrates In Education and Conservation Conference in Rio Rico, Arizona. [4] The Institute hosted the first annual Medical Entomology Today! conference in Tucson in 2011. [5]