It’s happening live right now, the Space Ecology Workshop 2026. The Space Studies Institute is proud to host Patrick Grove, Space Ecologist of the Spring Institute for Forrest On The Moon as he runs the show live from the SSI office in Medina Washington. Officially we are talking Closed System Ecology, Crop Production and Waste Recycling, BLSS and CELSS, and Bioastronautics. Which means… O’Neillian realities.
Right now in the picture you see the behind the scenes and doing the first presentation is Lucie Poulet of University Clermont, the Scientific Director of the European MELiSSA project. What a way to start.
Can you join the workshop? YES! It is today and tomorrow 8am to 4pm Pacific time and it is FREE. Just go to the Space Ecology Workshop website https://spaceecologyworkshop.com ) and click the big green “Register To Attend” button and sign up and you will get a free private Zoom link. Easy!
We hope to see you soon!
UPDATE Saturday September 19th, 9AM:
This is the real stuff. As we type this, Bob Morrow of Sierra Space Corporation is talking with your Workshop host Patrick Grove (Space Ecologist and Chief Science Officer of the Spring Institute for Forests on the Moon – who has a living experiment scheduled to Falcon up to ISS in just a few weeks!).
Closed System Ecology, Crop Production and Waste Recycling, BLSS and CELSS, and Bioastronautics… these are some fundamental O’Neillian topics and they are the focus of the second and final day of the 2026 Space Ecology Workshop, now happening LIVE from the Space Studies Institute offices in Medina Washington.
It’s just starting and runs till 4pm pacific time this afternoon. If you joined us yesterday just re-use your Zoom pass. If you missed yesterday, don’t miss today. Just head to the Space Ecology Workshop website (https://SpaceEcologyWorkshop.com) and click on the big green “Register to Attend” button. Enter your email, you’ll get your free pass.
Want to see what is coming up today? Right under the Register button is the link to the program’s PDF.
It’s happening NOW, drop in and say hello.
