Books Edited and Chapters in Books

  1. Contributing Editor, The Biosphere Catalogue (ed. T. Parrish Snyder), Synergetic Press, London and Tucson, 1985. Russian translation by MYSL publishers, Moscow (1990). German translation by Sphinx Publishers, Basel (1990).

  2. Nelson, M.: The Biotechnology of Space Biospheres, presented at Space Life Science Symposium, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan. Published in Fundamentals of Space Biology (ed. M. Asahima and G.M. Malacinski), pp. 185-200, Japan Scientific Society Press, Tokyo, and Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1990.

  3. Nelson, M., G. Soffen, (ed.): Workshop on Biological Life Support Technologies: Commercial Opportunities, NASA Conference Publication, NASA Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Division, Washington D.C. 1990. Also published as Biological Life Support Systems, Proceedings of the Workshop on Biological Life Support Technologies: Commercial Opportunities, (ed.) Mark Nelson and Gerald Soffen, Synergetic Press, Tucson, 1990.

  4. Alling, A., M. Nelson, L. Leigh, T. MacCallum, N. Alvarez-Romo, J. Allen and R. Frye. 1993. Experiments on the closed ecological system in the Biosphere 2 test module. Appendix chapter, pp 463-469 in R.J. Beyers and H.T. Odum, eds. Ecological Microcosms, Springer-Verlag, New York.

  5. Nelson, M., E. Bass, and L. Leigh. 1993. Biosphere 2 and the study of human/ecosystem dynamics, pp. 280-296, In M. J. McDonnell and S. T. Pickett, eds. Humans as Components of Ecosystems: The Ecology of Subtle Human Effects and Populated Areas, Springer-Verlag, N.Y. xxii, 364 pp.

  6. McKay, C. P., Meyer, T. R., Boston, P. J., Nelson, M., MacCallum, T., & Gwynne, O. (1993). Utilizing martian resources for life support. Resources of near-earth space, 1, 819, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

  7. Nelson, M., 1995. Design of Zero Discharge and Safe Discharge Biological Wastewater Treatment Systems Using Fast-Growing Trees, M.S. Thesis, School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, pp. 142.

  8. Nelson, M and W.F.Dempster,1996, Living In Space: results from Biosphere 2’s initial closure, an early testbed for closed ecological systems on Mars,pp.363-390 in Strategies for Mars: a guide to human exploration ed.C.R.Stoker & C.Emment, Vol.86 AAS Publication, San Diego CA.

  9. Nelson, M, 1997. Bioregenerative Life Support Systems for Space Habitation and Extended Planetary Missions, pp. 315-336, In: Fundamentals of Space Life Sciences (ed. Susanne Churchill), Orbit Books, Malabar, FL.

  10. Nelson, M., 1998. Limestone mesocosm for recycling saline wastewater in coastal Yucatan, Mexico, Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, pp. 329.

  11. Nelson, M (Ed.), 2001. Closed Ecological Systems: Earth and Space Applications, Advances in Space Research, Vol. 27, Number 9. Papers from the COSPAR General Scientific Assembly, Warsaw, Poland in 2000. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd., Pergamon. pp. 1495-1617

  12. Nelson, M., Pechurkin, N.S., Dempster, W.F., Somova, L.A., and M.A. Shea (Eds.), 2003. Space Life Sciences: Closed Artificial Ecosystems and Life Support Systems, Advances in Space Research, Vol. 31, Number 7:1627-1847.

  13. M. Nelson, N.S. Pechurkin, J.P. Allen, L.A. Somova and J.I. Gitelson, 2010. Bioengineering of Closed Ecological Systems for Ecological Research, Space Life Support and the Science of Biospherics, chapter 11 in Volume 10, 2010, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-140-0 ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY in the Handbook of Environmental Engineering series, Editors: Lawrence K. Wang, Volodymyr Ivanov and Joo-Hwa Tay, The Humana Press, Inc., Totowa, NJ

  14. L.A. Somova , N.S. Pechurkin and M. Nelson, 2010. Microbial Ecology of Isolated Life Support Systems (LSS), Chapter 6 In Volume 10, ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY in the Handbook of Environmental Engineering series, The Humana Press, Inc., Totowa, NJ

  15. M. Nelson (ed.), Space Life Sciences: Closed Ecological Systems, Earth and Space Applications, Advances in Space Research Vol. 35 (9): 1503-1664 2005. Collection of papers presented at the COSPAR General Scientific Assembly, Paris, July 2004.

  16. M. Nelson (ed.), Space Life Sciences: Closed Ecological Systems, Earth and Space Applications, Advances in Space Research Vol. 41(5): 675-828, 2008. Collection of papers presented at the COSPAR General Scientific Assembly, Beijing, China, July 2006.

  17. T. Vakil, M. Nelson, N. Greenhawk, contributors to Chapter 5, Citizen Monitoring of Tropical Rainforests in: GOFC-GOLD (2017) A Sourcebook of Methods and Procedures for Monitoring Essential Biodiversity Variables in Tropical Forests with Remote Sensing. Eds: GOFC-GOLD & GEO BON. Report version UNCBD COP-13, GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Project Office, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. ISSN: 2542-6729.