Data Access
Datasets collected from archived from all research initiatives have limited access to Biosphere 2 investigators and authorized collaborators. To get permission to access Biosphere 2 datasets, please fill out the Data Interest Form and/or contact Scott Saleska for the Landscape Evolution Observatory (LEO) data, Joost van Haren for the Tropical Rain Forest data, Diane Thompson for the Ocean Reef data, and John Adams for the Weather Station and SCADA data.
Data Use
The user of the Biosphere 2 data agrees not to resell or redistribute shared data. The dataset creators would appreciate hearing of any plans to use the dataset. Consider consultation or collaboration with dataset creators.
Data quality
The user of these data should be aware that these data are provisional and could be change anytime. While efforts have been taken to ensure that these data are of the highest quality, there is no guarantee of perfection for these data and the possible existence of errors.
Proper Acknowledgment
The following acknowledgment should accompany any publication or citation of these datasets “Data for this study were provided by the [Landscape Evolution Observatory Project] / [Tropical Rain Forest] / [Ocean Reef Lab] / [Weather Station], Biosphere 2, University of Arizona”.
The user of the Biosphere 2 data agrees to provide proper acknowledgment with each usage of the data, including citing used dataset in a similar way to cite a journal article (i.e. authors, year, dataset title, URL, Biosphere 2 [Landscape Evolution Observatory Project] / [Tropical Rain Forest] / [Ocean Reef Lab] / [Weather Station], University of Arizona, and date accessed).