IE convened the 4th International Workshop on Biospherics and Closed Ecological Systems at the Linnean Society of London.
Papers from this conference were published as a special issue of the journal, “Life Support & Biosphere Science”.
John Allen and Dr. Yvegeny Shepelev, the first human to live in a closed system, Institute of Biophysics, Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.
L-R: Dr. Gannah Moleshko, IBMP Moscow; Abigail Alling, Biosphere Foundation, biospherian; John Allen, Director Institute of Ecotechnics, Inventor or Biosphere 2, and Dr. Yvegeny Shepelev.
Speakers at the Linnean Society meeting, London, 1996. From left to right: back row: Mark Mills T. Heflin Jones, Craig Litton, Ray Collins, author, John Allen, Galina Nechitailo, Nicholai Pechurkin, Frank Salisbury, Lydia Somova, Roger Binot, Ganna Meleshko, Alexander Mashinsky, Sergei Zhukov. Front row: Seishiro Kibe, Tsutomu Iwata, Yevgeny Shepelev, Abigail Alling, Phil Dustan, Sally Silverstone, Andrew Brittain. Not in photo: Sir Ghillean Prance, William Dempster, William Challoner.
Standing under the portrait of Charles Darwin, at the Linnean Society, London, where he delivered his first paper on evolution.
L-R: Dr. Mark Nelson, Institute of Ecotechnics, Dr. Lydia Somova, and Prof. Nicholai Pechurkian, Institute of Biophysics, Siberia.