CLOSURE
Water, nutrients, gases, biomass, and the limits of recirculation.
CONTINUITY OF LIFE PROJECTBRANCH 01 / FINDDISCOVER WHAT
DISCOVER WHAT
LIFE REQUIRES.
FIND investigates the biological and ecological rules that determine whether living systems can persist, recover, or be deliberately reconstructed.
CORE QUESTION
WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW BEFORE RECOVERY BECOMES AN EMERGENCY?
Continuity depends on relationships: nutrient cycles, symbioses, functional redundancy, reproduction, succession, decomposition, tolerances, and the failure modes that destabilize a system.
FIND turns those relationships into testable questions and repeatable evidence.
FIND / DYNAMIC SYSTEMS
MEDIA / NASA Scientific Visualization StudioLIVING SYSTEMS CHANGE. OUR MODELS HAVE TO CHANGE WITH THEM.
DEPENDENCIES
Which organisms or processes are necessary for another part of the system to function?
PERTURBATION
What happens after light, nutrients, temperature, biomass, circulation, or a functional component changes?
REDUNDANCY
How much functional backup makes a biological system more resilient?