Next Steps for NEON
Read NEON Board Chair Jim MacMahon's letter about fast-approaching milestones in NEON planning and development: The upcoming Conceptual Design Review by an NSF panel, the search for a CEO and a Project Manager, and your opportunity to contribute to the evolving NEON design.
The latest version of the NEON Integrated Science and Education Plan (ISEP) has been released and is available for community comments The new document reflects changes (to the version released on 7 September) made by a recently convened writing and review team, as well as input from the ecological community and members of the NEON, Inc. Board of Directors . Community responses to the ISEP are due October 22.
The NEON Project Office will soon post a draft Request for Information (RFI) for public consideration and comment. This document details the kind of information that NEON, Inc. needs to receive from the community in order to complete the final design of the Observatory. The deadline for comments on this draft will also be October 22.
On October 23, final versions of both the ISEP and RFI will be sent to the NSF panel that will conduct a Conceptual Design Review of NEON during the week of November 6.
The most recent version of the ISEP (13 October 2006) and the comment form are in the Documents section or can be accessed directly through the links below:
Posted by djohnson on Friday October 13, at 4PM.