Located near
Tucson the Biosphere 2 has a unique history which has now led it to its current
purpose and mission to serve as a center for research, outreach, teaching and
life-long learning about Earth, its living systems, and its place in the
universe.
The Biosphere 2
Mission is to serve as a center for research, outreach, teaching and life-long
learning about Earth, its living systems, and its place in the universe.
Catalyze
interdisciplinary thinking and understanding about Earth and its future;
Be an adaptive tool for Earth education and outreach to industry, government, and the public;
Distill issues
related to Earth systems planning and management for use by policymakers,
students and the public.
The University
of Arizona assumed ownership of Biosphere 2 in July 2011. A generous gift from the Philecology
Foundation helps fund Biosphere 2 operations and some research projects. Other
grants and awards, primarily from the National Science Foundation, also support
research activities.
In the 1800s,
the Biosphere 2 property was part of the Samaniego CDO Ranch. After several
changes of ownership, it became a conference center in the 1960s and 1970s,
first for Motorola, then for The University of Arizona. Space Biospheres
Ventures bought the property in 1984 and began construction of the current
facility in 1986 to research and develop self-sustaining space-colonization
technology.
Two missions,
between 1991 and 1994, sealed Biospherians inside the glass enclosure to
measure survivability. Behind this highly public exercise was useful research
that helped further ecological understanding. Several first-person accounts
have been published by former crew members that provide different perspectives
on the experiment.
In 1994,
Decisions Investments Corporation assumed control of the property and Columbia
University managed it from 1996-2003 and reconfigured the structure for a
different mode of scientific research, including a study on the effects of
carbon dioxide on plants. Columbia also built classrooms and housing for
college students of earth systems science.
The property was
sold June 4, 2007, to CDO Ranching and its development partners who then leased
the property to UA from 2007-2011. The enclosure now serves as a tool to
support research already underway by UA scientists. As a laboratory for
large-scale projects, such as the Landscape Evolution Observatory (LEO), the
university's stewardship of Biosphere 2 will allow the UA to perform key
experiments aimed at quantifying some of the consequences of global climate
change.
Biosphere 2 -
32540 S. Biosphere Road - Oracle Arizona 85623 - 520-626-4092
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