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Dr. Ryan MacDonald welcomes Morgan Irons, Founder and Chief Science Officer of Deep Space Ecology Inc., to the Mars Bunker. Growing food in space and on the red planet will be discussed, while answering your questions LIVE on air.
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*Ferl, R. and Paul, A. (2016). The effect of spaceflight on the gravity-sensing auxin gradient of roots: GFP reporter gene microscopy on orbit. npj Microgravity 2:15023. https://doi.org/10.1038/npjmgrav.2015.23
*Musgrave, M.E., Kuang, A., Tuominen, L.K., Levine, L.H., and Morrow, R.C. (2005). Seed storage reserves and glucosinolates in Brassica rapa L. grown on the International Space Station. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 130(6):848-56. https://doi.org/10.21273/JASHS.130.6.848
*Tepfer, D., Zalar, A., and Leach, S. (2012). Survival of plant seeds, their UV screens, and nptII DNA for 18 months outside the International Space Station. Astrobiology 12(5): 517-528. https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2011.0744
*Weeks, K.R., Veenstra, S.C., Hill, D.L., and Gregson, B.P. (2003). A study of treatment options to remediate explosives and perchlorate in soils and groundwater at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. Remediation Journal 13(2).
https://doi.org/10.1002/rem.10068
Morgan Iron's patent:
Irons, M. (2018). U.S. Patent No. 9,970,208. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
*CES & Astrobiology Timelines (Compiled and created by Morgan Irons):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iwFn_rADINkfxW-yo43X3HotfYLAm4Q7/view?usp=sharing
*Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Ecosystems and Their Services
https://www.millenniumassessment.org/documents/document.300.aspx.pdf
*The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (2019):
http://www.fao.org/3/ca5162en/ca5162en.pdf
*The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ 10 Elements of Agroecology: http://www.fao.org/3/i9037en/I9037EN.pdf
*CSA Astronaut Chris Hadfield wringing out water on the ISS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8TssbmY-GM