1987 First International Biospherics Workshop
IE organizes the First International Workshop on Biospherics and Closed Ecological Systems at the Royal Society in London. The second meeting was held in Moscow and Krasnoyarsk, Siberia in 1989 in collaboration with the Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow and the Siberian Institute of Biophysics. The third was hosted at the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona in 1992.
Royal Society, London, 1987: first conference on Biospherics and Closed Ecological Systems: at podium left, Josef Gitelson, director of Bios-3 and the Institute of Biophysics, Krasnoyarsk; seated from left: Margaret Augustine, CEO and co-designer, Biosphere 2, Ganna Meleshka, pioneer in closed systems, IBMP; Clair Folsome, University of Hawaii, created first laboratory closed ecospheres and served on Biosphere 2 Project Review Committee, Bill Knott, head of the NASA Breadboard Project, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Standing on right: Mark Nelson, chairing the conference, and asking question from audience: Roy Walford, UCLA Medical School and Chief Medical Officer, Biosphere 2 closure experiment, 1991-1993.