Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2

by John P. Allen

Book Overview

The life story of John P. Allen, inventor of the largest laboratory for global ecology ever built and one of the most luminous minds of our time. Contained within a magnificently designed air-tight glass-and-steel-framed setting, Biosphere 2 covered three acres of Arizona desert and included models of seven biomes: an ocean with coral reef, marsh, rainforest, savannah, desert, farm and a micro-city. Eight people lived inside this structure for two...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0907791379
• ISBN13: 9780907791379
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Synergetic Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 16 years and up