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Diver Brandon Carr interfaces with an underwater robot outside of Ocean Space Habitat.

Earlier this year a University of Arizona professor went on a camping trip, but he didn’t go into the woods, or a national park or even into the open desert. Instead, Win Burleson spent the night about 20 feet underwater at Biosphere 2.

And, he slept inside a kind of tent he co-invented, called the Ocean Space Habitat. It’s designed to allow scientists to spend more time underwater doing research, without having to keep coming up to the surface.

The Show spoke with Burleson, who works in the areas of human computer interaction and cyber learning at UA, about his night under the sea, and asked him to describe the Ocean Space Habitat — what does it look like and how does it work?

Win Burleson

Win Burleson at at Biosphere 2

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