Tag: ocean space habitat
Spaceship Earth | a review
I just recently returned from personally visiting the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 facility out in the middle of the desert. As a kid, I remember news headlines highlighting the 2 year social experiment that placed a team of ‘Biospherians’ inside the isolated ecosystem – it was really quite interesting to see where the project…
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UArizona Professor’s Underwater Tent Invention to Appear on Shark Week
An underwater tent co-invented by a University of Arizona professor will be featured during the Discovery Channel’s popular Shark Week this month. Dubbed the Ocean Space Habitat, the portable inflatable tent allows occupants to essentially camp out underwater. Co-invented by UArizona professor Winslow Burleson and professional diver Michael Lombardi, the tent will be featured in the episode “The Great Hammerhead Stakeout,”…
Read MoreThe Future of Diving Technology | Making Ocean News Headlines
Let’s not forget the human element…thanks to ON&T for looking at The Future of Diving Technology. Read the article. pdf download.
Read Morethe bed & breakfast, or the bivy
Underwater living… it’s perhaps the start of the lineage of work that many of us have embarked upon, and still remains a vision for the future. “Why?” one might ask… While the Atlantean dreamscape painted of a life beneath the waves of some utopian tropical paradise flirts with the outskirts of fantasy, the practical side…
Read MoreGrant Received | Innovate RI
Very pleased to share that we received a small grant through the Rhode Island Science & Technology Advisory Council (STAC) Innovate RI Small Business Fund to officially hire our intern! We’ve been working with students from a variety of New England institutions for over a decade on everything from public relations to technology development. Last summer, we…
Read MoreAnother New Paper: variable depth capability for portable inflatable habitats
Recently published in cooperation with colleagues at NYU and URI: Piispanen, RA., Lombardi, MR., and Burleson, W. (2016). Variable Depth Capability for Portable Inflatable Habitats. In Lobel, LK., & Lombardi, MR. (editors) (2016) Diving for Science 2016: Proceedings of the AAUS 35th Scientific Symposium, September 20-14, 2016, Narragansett, RI. Dauphin Island, AL: American Academy of Underwater…
Read MoreCreating ‘Space’ for Space
Having ‘space’ within space seems to be a critical bottleneck in manned space exploration, second of course to cost-effective round trip travel. Regarding the latter, the various recent private initiatives are certainly making progress, though like anything groundbreaking, there remains a long road ahead. Once we get there, what are we going to do? Answering…
Read MoreOceanscrapers & Cities by and within the Sea
Every handful of years we see a short bit of press related to elaborate proposals to construct grandiose and magnificent cities beneath the sea, much like this recent piece in CNN highlighting Vincent Callebaut’s proposed ‘Oceanscraper’. These are all awe-inspiring, intriguing, and draw on dreams buried ‘deep’ within our brains that were all left by the…
Read MoreXploration 2050 | Humans Adapt
Lombardi describes recent efforts in portable underwater habitat development to create a novel undersea workspace and experience. Program aired on Fox TV’s ‘Xploration 2050’ on October 24, 2015 with an episode focus on human adaptation and habitation within novel spaces.
Read MoreGen II Ocean Space Habitat | Hong Kong
Lombardi deploys a Gen II Ocean Space Habitat at the City University of Hong Kong’s Kat O Island Research Fish Raft for integrated mulltitrophic aquaculture research. The Gen II system incorporates dedicated life support, making the system a dependent tool for the diver. Produced by Raymond Man.
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