University of Arizona Professor Winslow Burleson started his summer with a camping trip 21 feet underwater in the ocean biome at the university's Biosphere 2. Burelson spent the night in an inflatable tent and worked with an underwater robot to collect samples from the ocean environment.
Winslow Burleson started his summer with a camping trip 21 feet underwater in the ocean biome at Biosphere 2. He spent the night in an inflatable tent and worked with a robot to collect samples from the ocean.
As coastal communities face increasingly complex threats, such as flooding due to storm surge and rising sea levels, deteriorating water quality, and over-fishing, the center has been an active partner in developing sustainable solutions.
Northeastern plans to expand the center, located at the tip of a small peninsula that juts into Massachusetts Bay, to provide researchers with state-of-the-art tools and facilities to enhance the impact of this critically important work.
But some residents oppose the expansion on the property, a former military base that Northeastern has owned since 1967, and a public vote is scheduled to decide whether to acquire roughly eight acres of Northeastern-owned space though eminent domain.