Montreal Biosphere Montreal Biosphere The Biosphere (French: "La Biosphère de Montréal") is a museum dedicated to the environment. It is located at Parc Jean-Drapeau, on Saint Helen's Island in the former pavilion of the United States for the 1967 World Fair, Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The museum's geodesic dome was designed by Buckminster Fuller. The architect of this geodesic dome was Buckminster Fuller. The building originally formed an enclosed structure of steel and acrylic cells, in diameter and high. It is a Class 1 (icosahedral, as differentiated from Class 2 domes, which are dodecahedral, and Class 3 ones, which are
Wissam S. al-Hashimi of Sedimentologists, serving from 1982-1990. He was elected as vice-president of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) in 1996. Wissam al-Hashimi wrote many scientific papers, in both Arabic and English, on carbonate sedimentology and diagenesis, petrology, mineralogy, geoarchaeology, engineering geology, underground storage, industrial rocks and minerals, and hydrology. He regularly wrote analytical articles which were published in Iraqi newspapers covering various political, oil and water issues in the Middle East and the Arab world. According to Wissam al-Hashimi's daughter Tara, Wissam S. al-Hashimi Dr Wissam S. al-Hashimi was an Iraqi geologist born in Baghdad. In 2001 he was elected