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Biosphere 2, with upgraded solar panels in foreground, sits on a sprawling 40-acre (16-hectare) science campus that is open to the public. The Biosphere 2 project was launched in 1984 by businessman and billionaire philanthropist Ed Bass and systems ecologist John P. Allen, with Bass providing US$150 million in funding until 1991. [7]
Biosphere 2 captivated the world's attention and imagination; Discover magazine asserted that Biosphere 2 was "the most exciting scientific project to be undertaken in the U.S. since President John F. Kennedy launched us toward the moon," [20] and talk-show host Phil Donahue, in a live on-site broadcast, called Biosphere 2 "one of the most ...
Matt Wolf’s documentary “Spaceship Earth” provides some illuminating context to our shut-in days by going back to the early 1990s to study the Biosphere II, that quixotic endeavor in the ...
Biosphere 2, which closely resembles the film's "Bio-Dome", opened in Oracle, Arizona, in 1991. The first "mission" saw eight scientists sealed inside the facility between 1991 and 1993 as part of an experiment to see how feasibly they could live within a closed system.
Biosphere 2 in Arizona, United States, 3.15 acres (13,000 m 2). BIOS-1, BIOS-2 and BIOS-3 at the Institute of Biophysics in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in what was then the Soviet Union. [42] Biosphere J (CEEF, Closed Ecology Experiment Facilities), an experiment in Japan. [43] [44]
After the initial Biosphere 2 experiment ended in 1993, Nelson and his fellow crew member Abigail Alling published Life Under Glass: The Inside Story of Biosphere. [1] Nelson then began graduate studies at the University of Arizona's School of Renewable Natural Resources, receiving his MSc in 1995. [9]
Biosphere 2 - Controversial project with a 1.27 ha artificial closed ecological system in Oracle, Arizona ... of disturbance: a microcosm experiment". ...
Arizona State’s Herm Edwards experiment came to an unceremonious ending on Sunday when the school fired him after an embarrassing 30-21 home loss to Eastern Michigan on Saturday.