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	Biosphere 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Biosphere 2 is a structure built to be a artificial closed ecological system in Oracle, Arizona by John Polk Allen, Space Biosphere Ventures and others.
		According to the general biology textbook "Biology" by Neil Campbell and Jane Reece, Biosphere 2 suffered also from CO levels that "fluctuated wildly" and that most of the vertebrate species and all of the pollinating insects died.
		Biosphere 2 is still open for tours and plans to be open into the future.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biosphere_2 (1141 words)

	Biosphere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From the broadest geophysiological point of view, the biosphere is the global ecological system integrating all living beings and their relationships, including their interaction with the elements of the lithosphere (rocks), hydrosphere (water), and atmosphere (air).
		This biosphere is generally thought to have evolved, beginning through a process of biogenesis or biopoesis, at least some 3.5 billion years ago.
		For example, geochemists define the biosphere as being the total sum of living organisms (the "biomass" or "biota" as referred to by biologists and ecologists).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biosphere (883 words)

	Visiting Tucson Arizona - Discounted Golf Tee Times and Hotel Rooms
		Biosphere 2 is one of the largest living laboratories in the world and a monumental feat of engineering.
		In 1994 Biosphere 2 was converted from a laboratory to test the feasibility of humans living in a closed ecosystem to a large scale ecological laboratory and the Western branch campus of Columbia University in the City of New York.
		The Biosphere 2 Center campus is situated on 250 acres with beautiful Sonoran Desert landscapes and a park-like atmosphere that is both relaxing and scenic.
	www.dotucson.com /visit.asp?qry=1209 (253 words)

	Infozona Travel: Biosphere 2 Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Biosphere 2 is one of the largest living laboratories in the world.
		In 1994 Biosphere 2 was converted from an experiment to test the feasibility of humans living in a closed eco-system to a large scale ecological laboratory and Western branch campus of Columbia University.
		Biosphere 2 is the only laboratory in the world where a mature grove of cottonwood trees can be grown under controlled conditions permitting researchers to examine the effects of different levels of carbon dioxide on the growth of the trees.
	www.infozona.com /travel/bs2c.asp (204 words)

	Biosphere 2 - Tour Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Biosphere 2 expands accessibility inside its $150 million world-renowned structure with the "World of Discovery" Under the Glass tour, the Center's most comprehensive tour to date.
		The interior portion of Biosphere was opened to the public in the spring of 2002.
		The interior portion of the tour is not wheelchair or stroller accessible due to Biosphere 2 being a research facility.
	www.bio2.com /tourinfo.htm (372 words)

	NPR : Biosphere 2
		Biosphere 2's "ocean" is actually 700,000 gallons of seawater in a tank the size of an Olympic swimming pool.
		Biosphere 2 director Berry Osmond knows he's facing a deadline, and says he must convince scientists to visit Biosphere 2 to demonstrate its potential.
		If researchers fail to convince the larger science community that Biosphere 2 is a valuable place for new and innovative research, the super-sized greenhouse may someday be known simply as an Arizona tourist attraction with a peculiar past.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/2002/apr/biosphere (887 words)

	Biosphere 2
		Biosphere 2, a 7,200,00 cubic foot sealed glass and spaceframe structure, with all living elements taken directly from Earth (Biosphere 1).
		When the human habitat was seperated from the rest of Bioshpere 2 so it could be opened to the general public, the IAB had to be seperated as well due to its location.
		And since the environment in Biosphere 2 is regulated, the enviornment in each one of the bays will be able to be controlled seperately.
	www.jennifersuniverse.com /bio2.html (1584 words)

	Biosphere 2 - Oracle Arizona - April 2002
		Biosphere 2 is the largest sealed environmentally controlled building in the World.
		Biosphere 2 is located in the Sonoran Desert north of Tucson, Arizona, the nearest town is Oracle, Arizona.
		Biosphere 2 is now used for research on global warming and higher levels of Carbon Dioxide than are in the air presently.
	www.jcphome.com /images/arizona/biosphere2/biosphere2.html (372 words)

	The Space Review: Beyond the Biodome
		Biosphere 2 initially attracted support in the space activist community, who saw the effort as a precursor to future human colonies on the Moon or Mars.
		Biosphere 2 is a large facility located 25 kilometers north of Tucson, Arizona.
		Biosphere 2 sent ripples of excitement through the space activist community, where the biospherians and their research were hailed as pathfinders for a future Mars mission or lunar colony.
	www.thespacereview.com /article/305/1 (1383 words)

	Oracle, Arizona - Biosphere II
		Oracle, Arizona - Biosphere II Oracle, Arizona - Biosphere II Vacation and road trip planning caution: Visitor tips may not be verified.
		Biosphere 2 is now owned by a new corporation.
		Since 1996, Biosphere II has been "managed" by Columbia University, and most of the facility is given over to sealed environment experiments.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==92 (508 words)

	Biosphere Background
		Students and volunteers at the Biosphere conduct most of their ecologic research outdoors, with the hope that similar experiments might be brought inside at a later date.
		Part of the Biosphere opened to the public in November, 1996 for the first time: the former living space of the original "Biospherians" has been sealed off from the rest of the domes and transformed into a visitor center full of exhibits on climatic change.
		As described by Broad, Biosphere 2 was financed by Edward P. Bass, the Texas billionaire and oil heir, as a test of John Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, the theory that the earth and its living creatures evolved together as a self-regulating system that maintains conditions that are optimum for life.
	www.accessexcellence.org /LC/ST/st4bg.html (1891 words)

	Biosphere 2 - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		BIOSPHERE 2 [Biosphere 2] privately funded ecological research project in which eight people lived sealed in a 3.15-acre (1.28-hectare) structure for two years (Sept. 26, 1991-Sept. 26, 1993).
		A second crew entered Biosphere in Mar., 1994, but various disagreements and allegations of mismanagement made by the chief financial backer, Edward Bass, finally led to the abandonment of attempts at self-sufficient living.
		Biosphere 2's first 'mission' ends as 8 people leave its bubble.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-biosphere.html (409 words)

	Biosphere 2 Center (DesertUSA)
		It wasn't many years ago that Biosphere 2, nestled in the foothills of Arizona's Santa Catalina Mountains about 30 miles north of Tucson, was the laughing stock of scientific research.
		Biosphere 2 is located in Oracle, Arizona,, in the beautiful Catalina mountain foothills.
		The Biosphere 2 Center campus is a fascinating geological area sitting amidst 3 separate biomes, created by varying topography, temperatures and rainfall.
	www.desertusa.com /mag99/apr/stories/bios2.html (835 words)

	SPACE.com -- Biosphere 2 - Science Under Glass
		Biospheres first mission was straightforward, but grand: Probe for new ideas of recycling; better understand the workings of Earths biosphere; and provide clues on how best to build similar habitats on the Moon and Mars.
		In 1996, with a green light from billionaire Bass, the university assumed management of the Biosphere 2 complex and the surrounding 250 acres (101 hectares), Adams said.
		Biosphere 2 has become a busy hub for increasing numbers of undergraduate and graduate students from around the world.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/generalscience/biosphere2_001110.html (863 words)

	Biosphere 2
		Biosphere 2 has taught at least one lesson which will be invaluable to interplanetary travelers: Plan on being accompanied by cockroaches and ants.
		A scientific journal returned the paper of one researcher as not worthy research because it was from Biosphere 2.
		When Space Biosphere Ventures, the original manager of the project, ran into trouble with goal and management criticism, Columbia formed a science partnership with Biosphere in 1994, and took over the facility two years later.
	www.doney.net /aroundaz/biosphere2.htm (900 words)

	biosphere 2 on Find Articles
		Biosphere 2 was an experiment in which scientists lived in a geodesic dome made from glass for two years.
		Geoscientists have fingered microbes as the culprits in the case of the missing oxygen within Biosphere 2, the sealed experimental ecosystem in southern...
		Biosphere 2 offers courses for students who live in the biosphere for 4.5 months and the curriculum offered to students is interdisciplinary.
	www.findarticles.com /p/search?qt=biosphere+2&tb=art&qf=free&x=16&y=4 (609 words)

	Biosphere 2"
		Biosphere 2 Center was opened to the public in 1990 as a research and learning center to explore how our environment affects our lives and how we affect our environment.
		From the beginning, the goal of Biosphere 2 has been to find ways to become responsible stewards of our planet, ensuring a good quality of life for us and for future generations.
		Biosphere 2 is the world's largest glass-enclosed ecological laboratory.
	www.rozylowicz.com /retirement/biosphere2/biosphere2.html (387 words)

	Biosphere 2
		Situated in the foothills of the Santa Catalina mountains, Biosphere 2 is a glass-enclosed mesocosm and a unique research facility that allows scientists greater understanding of Earth systems and permits experimentation on a relatively large scale.
		The aquatic biomes consist of an estuary and ocean, and the terrestrial ecosystems are the tropical rainforest, savannah, fog desert, and thornscrub.
		In addition to these systems, Biosphere 2 also contained a habitat for humans and their agricultural system which are now separate from other biomes.
	geowww.geo.tcu.edu /student/argenbright/Biosphere2.html (445 words)

	Arizona Biosphere 2 - Tucson Arizona Biospheres II Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Columbia University's Biosphere 2 Center expands accessibility inside its $150 million world-renowned living laboratory with the "World of Discovery" Under the Glass tour, the Center's most comprehensive tour to date.
		The Biosphere 2 Center was acquired by Columbia University as a research facility for examining how Earth's biosphere will change as carbon dioxide and other substances build in the atmosphere.
		Biosphere 2 Center, nestled in the high Sonoran desert at the foot of the Santa Catalina Mountains, enjoys one of the most breathtaking natural settings in all of Arizona.
	www.thepepper.com /tucson_biosphere.html (513 words)

	Roald Gundersen ... Biosphere 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		A view of some of the Biosphere 2 project, with the Human Habitat portion in the center of this picture.
		Working with Space Biosphere Ventures, Roald was the Project Architect on the Human Habitat portion of this $150 million project.
		Biosphere 2 is a closed life-support experiment, built to test the interaction between biological systems over a hundred-year period.
	www.mwt.net /~roald/portfolio/InstitutionalCommercial/biosphere2.html (192 words)

	Special: Inside Biosphere 2
		Biosphere 2 from its public image that a visitor quickly subjects all preconceptions of the place to a radical revision.
		Distinct from Earth ("Biosphere 1") but dependent on it, modeled after parts of it, and capable of strikingly original transactions with it, Bio2 offers the observer the chance to rethink deeply rooted assumptions about the systems that support life.
		BIO 2 REMAINS a powerful cultural symbol as well as a working research facility; people unfamiliar with it continue to think of it in terms of enclosure, if not space colonization.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/21stC/issue-2.1/wbmbio2.htm (1284 words)

	Biosphere 2: A little world is up for sale \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		The Texas company that built and owns the Biosphere 2 Center near Oracle announced Monday that it has formally put up for sale the 3.1-acre glass terrarium and 70 other buildings on the 140-acre campus.
		New York City's Columbia University, which signed an agreement to manage Biosphere 2 in 1996, reached a settlement with Decisions Investment in September 2003 to end its management of the center, which included a tourism element, a research element and a study-abroad element for undergraduate biology students.
		Biosphere 2 currently has about 60 employees, a number Bannon said the company would like to see increase with new ownership.
	www.dailystar.com /dailystar/business/55319.php (818 words)

	www_biospheres_com
		Biospheric Design projects incorporate the latest advances in energy efficient and recycling technologies to achieve a harmony between the architecture and the surrounding environment.
		Biospheric Design's most famous design project is the Biosphere 2 Project, a magnificent laboratory for the study of global ecology.
		Biosphere 2 was nominated by the USA Discovery Channel in 2003 as the #3 greatest engineering achievement in the 20
	www.biospheretechnologies.com (779 words)

	92.05.01: Biosphere 2 and Beyond
		This unit has been designed to help students in grades 3Ð8, better understand their environment and their world, through a look at Biosphere 1 (Earth), Biosphere 2, and mini-biospheres that can be created by the students in the classroom and a sampling of other hands on activities.
		Biosphere 2 is the largest totally sealed environment in the world.
		Biosphere 2 is the control environment because it is sealed.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1992/5/92.05.01.x.html (8317 words)

	biosphere 2
		In the late 1980s, Biosphere 2 was built (funded by oil magnet Edward Bass) with the intention of creating five airtight biomes exactly like those found on Earth, which is referred to as Biosphere 1.
		For a while Columbia University adopted Biosphere 2 as an off-campus research center, but I was told there is no longer enough student interest to support the program.
		These pictures don’t begin to capture the awesome technology and ingenuity at Biosphere 2, so if you are ever in Tucson, I highly recommend you spend some time exploring this relic of the past.
	www.eggplantwmayo.com /pages/biosphere2.htm (502 words)

	Biosphere 2 Teaches Us Another Lesson
		Those of us who follow the story of Biosphere 2 not just with interest, but with enthusiasm, weren't entirely surprised by the recent news stories, but we were puzzled.
		Biosphere 2, you may or may not remember, is a three-acre, five-story greenhouse in the Arizona desert.
		But the Biosphere 2 managers, control freaks all, had the idea that everything should work perfectly, or at least appear to.
	sustainer.org /dhm_archive/search.php?display_article=vn548biosphereed (878 words)

	Wired 12.12: 10 Lessons from Biosphere 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		In fact, it was Biosphere 2, the audacious 1991 experiment that became an object of ridicule.
		The Biosphere habitat was so intricate that scientists who'd built closed-system models thought the team was crazy to even try - and warned that the entire ecosystem would collapse.
		Biosphere spawned a host of imitators, each with its own spin: The Zurich Zoo has reproduced a piece of the Madagascar rain forest, and the Biosphere Foundation, comprising some of the Biosphere team, plans to build simulated habitats for prospective Mars colonists.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/12.12/biosphere (575 words)

	Biosphere 2 tours in Arizona
		The buildings of the Biosphere 2 experimental facility in Oracle, north of Tucson in Arizona.
		Biosphere 2, the world famous attraction 20 minutes north of Tucson has a brand new look and feel, and includes a new visitor center, a movie, gift shop and a spectacular updated tour route.
		All visitors are now allowed to enter the entire 3.15-acre technological wonder, as the new tour focuses primarily on under-the-glass botanical exhibits.
	www.arizona-life.com /Attractions/Biosphere-2.htm (355 words)

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