Biosphere 2
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Biosphere 2 is an Earth systems science research facility currently owned by the University of Arizona since 2011. Its current mission is to serve as a center for research, outreach, teaching and lifelong learning about Earth, its living systems, and its place in the universe. It is a structure originally built to be an artificial, materially closed ecological system in Oracle, Arizona (US) by Space Biosphere Ventures, a joint venture whose principal officers were John P. Allen, inventor and Executive Director, and Margret Augustine, CEO. Constructed between 1987 and 1991, it was used to explore the complex web of interactions within life systems in a structure that included five areas based on biomes and an agricultural area and human living/working space to study the interactions between humans, farming and technology with the rest of nature. It also explored the possible use of closed biospheres in space colonization, and allowed the study and manipulation of a biosphere without harming Earth's. The name comes from Earth's biosphere, Biosphere 1. Earth's life system is the only biosphere currently known. Funding for the project came primarily from the joint venture's financial partner, Ed Bass' Decisions Investment, and cost $200 million from 1985 to 2007, including land, support research greenhouses, test module and staff facilities.
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- Related: BIOS-3, MARS-500, Eden Project, John P. Allen, Jane Poynter, Taber MacCallum, Roy Walford, Integrated biotectural system
| Official Website Official Website www.b2science.org - Web |
| Biosphere 2: Our World Biosphere 2: Our World www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=l4DX994NonE - Web |
| Website on biospherics and Biosphere 2 Website on biospherics and Biosphere 2 www.biospherics.org - Web |
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| Me and the Biospheres website Me and the Biospheres website www.meandthebiospheres.com - Web |
| Paragon Space Development Corporation Paragon Space Development Corporation www.paragonsdc.com - Web |
| Biosphere 2 bubble sold to developers Biosphere 2 bubble sold to developers www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19055888 - Web |
| Life Under Glass: The Inside Story of Biosphere 2 ... Life Under Glass: The Inside Story of Biosphere 2 by Abigail Alling, Mark Nelson and Sally Silverstone, Synergetic Press, 1993 www.synergeticpress.com/biospherics.html#life_under_glass - Web |
| Biosphere 2 Astronomical Observatory Biosphere 2 Astronomical Observatory www.company7.com/mccmo/ - Web |
| Life in Biosphere 2 Life in Biosphere 2 www.ted.com/.../jane_poynter_life_in_biosphere_2.html - Web |
| Dreaming the Biosphere Dreaming the Biosphere dreamingthebiosphere.com - Web |
| Sign Posts of Dr. Roy Walford, Voyage of Biosphere... Sign Posts of Dr. Roy Walford, Voyage of Biosphere 2 www.crimmitprojects.com/video.html - Web |
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| "A West World of Outreach, Biosphere 2 a Zion for ... "A West World of Outreach, Biosphere 2 a Zion for Science" www.tucsonweekly.com/.../a-west-world-of-outreach-biosphere-2-a-zion-for-science - Web |
