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Dec. 16, 2019

'Rainforest Under Glass' Kissed by Rain After Two-Month Drought

An experiment at Biosphere 2 forced the “hottest tropical rainforest in the world” through a controlled drought and recovery to see how climate change will affect Earth’s ecosystems.

Biosphere 2 WALD members : UA assistant professor Laura Meredith, University of Freiburg professor Christiane Werner, University of Texas - Austin assistant professor Pawel Misztal and University of Freiburg postdoctoral fellow Ines Bamberger.
Sept. 13, 2019

Biosphere 2 Rain Forest Closed During Drought Experiment

Drought will soon descend on the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 rain forest, and an international research team will be ready with an array of instruments to record what unfurls under the glass.

These results of a new UA-led study suggest that the novel co-location of agriculture and solar photovoltaic arrays could have synergistic effects that support the production of ecosystem services such as crop production, local climate regulation, water c
Sept. 2, 2019

Agrivoltaics Proves Mutually Beneficial Across Food, Water, Energy Nexus

A paper published in Nature Sustainability presents the first field-data assessment of outcomes of a multi-year study of agrivoltaics in dryland regions.

Students from Kyoto University in Japan and across Arizona participated in hands-on research in Biosphere 2's ocean biome.
Aug. 14, 2019

Today’s Students are Tomorrow’s Space Explorers

Ten students from Japan and Arizona gathered for the first official Space Camp Biosphere 2, where they designed Biosphere 3 to sustain human life on Mars.

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