Request for Community Input

We seek your timely input to the NEON design, in advance of our first meeting (January 4-6, 2005). As you know, NEON will be designed to address continental and regional scale questions pertaining to many environmental grand challenges as they relate to: (1) biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; (2) biogeochemical cycling; (3)climate change; (4) hydroecology; (5) infectious disease; (6) invasive species; (7) land use; and (8) other emerging issues. A series of questions will guide the design of the continental scale research platform that comprises NEON, leading to a distributed infrastructure network that allows us to transform ecology and begin to forecast biosphere phenomena. In addition to science, NEON will provide unique educational opportunities for K-12 and higher education students, as well as the general public.

We need you — the very best scientists, educators and engineers — to assist in the design process.

Posted by jgoldman on Wednesday November 24, at 3PM.