NEON in Detail

Two resources are now available to colleagues interested in learning more about recent NEON planning developments. "Requirements-Based CI for the National Ecological Network" is a powerpoint presentation on Observatory science, Grand Challenge themes, cyber infrastructure design principles, and more. The "Draft NEON Education and Outreach Strategic Plan" offers details from the NEON Education and Outreach Tiger Team about how to translate continental-scale ecological data into meaningful information that citizens can understand and use.

See Requirements-Based CI for NEON (PPT, 3 MB)

See the Draft NEON Education and Outreach Strategic Plan (DOC, 312 KB)

Posted by sdastvan on Friday May 9, at 2PM

NEON Completes Selection of Candidate Sites

After conducting a detailed evaluation, NEON senior staff have selected candidate core site locations for the three domains where decisions had been pending: the Mid-Atlantic, the Great Lakes, and the Southern Plains.

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Posted by sdastvan on Tuesday April 29, at 10AM

An Update for the Ecological Community

In their latest Dear Colleague letter, CEO David Schimel and Board Chair Jim MacMahon describe the funding outlook for NEON, changes in NSF standards for MREFC projects, additions to the NEON staff and Board of Directors, and other project developments.

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Posted by sdastvan on Monday February 25, at 1PM

NEON Welcomes New Institutional Members

Five recent applicants have become the latest Institutional Members of NEON. They join a growing body of universities, scientific associations, national laboratories, and other organizations that formally support the purposes and activities of the Observatory. We welcome the Argonne National Laboratory, University of California-Merced (Sierra Nevada Research Institute), Oklahoma State University, the Organization of Biological Field Stations, and the Vermont Monitoring Cooperative. A total of 52 Founding and Institutional Members have joined NEON to date.

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Posted by sdastvan on Thursday February 14, at 2PM

NEON Expands Its Board of Directors

The first-ever election of Board members chosen by representatives of NEON Founding and Institutional member organizations has added Jim Ehleringer, Nancy B. Grimm, Margaret Palmer, Debra Peters, and David S. White to the NEON Board of Directors. The Board also conducted an At-Large election to fill two open seats. The addition of Margaret Leinen and David Douglas brings the NEON Board of Directors to its full complement of 15 members.

Meet the new NEON Board members

Posted by djohnson on Wednesday January 23, at 8AM

NEON Session Added to Upcoming Conference on Stable Isotopes

Experts from the National Ecological Observatory Network will discuss a range of topics related to the NEON isotopes sampling plan at Isoscapes 2008, a scientific conference to be held in Santa Barbara, CA, April 7-10. The session will be an opportunity for NEON scientists to vet how isotopic measurements in the Observatory framework are broadly designed for biogeochemistry and organismal ecology, and to obtain input and guidance in refining the NEON measurement strategy from the meeting participants. Attendees will receive updates on the current status of NEON and on the use of isotopes in the Fundamental Instrument Unit and the Fundamental Sentinel Unit design. Session leaders will seek feedback from the community on how best to describe the traceabilty from NEON scientific objectives to its measurement strategy. Registration for the conference ends January 31.

If you plan to attend the NEON session, please email Rebecca Hufft Kao at bkao@neoninc.org

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Posted by djohnson on Thursday January 17, at 2PM