NEON Design Documents Online

The NEON Integrated Science and Education Plan (ISEP) and the NEON Networking and Informatics and Baseline Design (NIBD) have been previewed by the National Science Foundation and are now available for comment by the broader ecological community. The NEON ISEP & NIBD and comment form are listed in the Documents Section.

The ISEP and NIBD reports define the scope of NEON as submitted to the NSF. NSF will next consider the funding of NEON from the MREFC (Major Research and Equipment Facilities Construction) budget.

Because the development of NEON is funded by a cooperative agreement with NSF, the reports as written and posted on the NEON Web site may undergo additional changes at the discretion of NSF, which will distinguish the elements of the NEON design and infrastructure that will be included in initial deployment from those that will be considered for future phases of NEON. Comments received from the community will be reviewed by the NEON Project Office and provided to cognizant NSF officials.

Posted by dkirschtel on Thursday February 9, at 11AM.