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June 26, 2007
U. of Arizona Has Big Plans for Research as New Tenant of Biosphere 2
Like a celebrity on a fifth marriage, the giant facility in Arizona known as Biosphere 2 has once again attracted a suitor with grand designs for research.
The University of Arizona announced today that is had leased the lab-with-a-checkered-past for three years to conduct scientific experiments. “Biosphere 2 will provide our faculty and students exceptional opportunities to address major environmental challenges facing Arizona and the Southwest,” said Robert N. Shelton, president of the university, in a news release.
The university is apparently getting a good deal financially; it will lease the 34-acre campus on which Biosphere 2 sits for a “nominal fee.” Grants and gifts will support the research and the cost of operating the facility, with much of the money coming from the Philecology Foundation, a charity in Forth Worth that was founded by the billionaire Edward P. Bass.
Mr. Bass financed the construction of the facility in the 1980s and the human missions in the early 1990s, in which a crew lived in the enclosure with 6,500 windows. Although the plan called for the experiment to be totally sealed off and self-supporting, the crew suffered when oxygen levels unexpectedly dropped because of unforeseen reactions with the concrete used in the construction.
Later, Columbia University managed the facility, but was eventually sued by Mr. Bass’s company, the Decisions Investment Corporation, for not maintaining its financial obligations. The facility and its 1,650 acres of land were recently sold to a development firm reportedly interested in the land around Biosphere 2. —Richard Monastersky
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How can this deal not involve Mike Crow, currently Arizona State’s President but previously Biosphere’s champion at Columbia?
— just curious... Jun 26, 03:59 PM #
Biosphere 2 seems like a great opportunity for U of A and the country.With it’s size, it has the capability to do controlled experiments at an unpresedented scale. The fact that its leased for a “nominal fee” and supported by grants and gifts makes it even more attractive, but what I like most is, if you want to know what’s going on inside you can take a tour. Now that is cool.
— Len Stephenson Jun 26, 05:06 PM #