His work includes research into space farming with NASA and at Utah State University, where he is the Director of the Crop Physiology Laboratory.

Bugbee is the Director of the Crop Physiology Laboratory at Utah State University[1] in their Plants, Soils & Climate Department.

[4] Bugbee has also provided TEDx Talks on his work,[5] and has been awarded the Utah Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology.

[10] Bugbee’s work with NASA also includes the development of crop growing systems for future life on the Moon and Mars[2] in addition to in orbit or in space shuttles.

"[8] Bugbee has been a critic of the use of indoor farming as a means of solving food shortages, citing concerns about the large amount of electricity needed to provide light for photosynthesis.