Rio Mesa Field Station

Located along almost three miles of Dolores River in the magnificent red-rock country of southeastern Utah, The University of Utah's Bonderman Field Station at Rio Mesa provides opportunities for field-based interdisciplinary research that emphasizes ecology and the environment in the broadest sense. Rio Mesa Field Station is a real-world laboratory for integrated thinking about humans and their place in biologically complex, but fragile, systems. The Field Station promotes research, courses and professional training at the interface of history, anthropology, biology, art and human sustainability around the following themes:

-Water as the lifeblood of the West
-Human history and sustainability on the Colorado Plateau
-Solitude and inspiration

Our facilities are available for research, classes, workshops, retreats and writers- and artists-in-residence.