Rationale

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NEON
Jiquan Chen, Univ of Toledo
Rationale During the past several years, the
scientific community has worked to develop and
advocate for NEON. During the past several
months, however, issues have been identified that
have helped clarify what must be addressed for
NEON to move forward successfully. Perhaps the
overarching issue is that NEON must continue its
development along the lines of other large-scale
infrastructure projects. Because nothing quite
like NEON has ever been developed by biologists,
it should be helpful to model the NEON effort
after large-scale projects in other disciplines.
Much of what follows builds upon discussion at
the recent NEON Coordination and Implementation
Conferencewhich brought together experts that
manage large-scale infrastructure projects and
NEON stakeholders to discuss how to form, manage,
and govern NEONand at a recent workshop on
best-practices for managing such large scientific
facility projects.
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Organizational chart shows relationship between
steering committee, task forces, and staff. One
associate staff person works with three
taskforces. Staff director oversees associates
and works directly with steering committee, which
receives reports from taskforces
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• Scientific Task Forces (STF)
• Biodiversity, species composition, and ecosystem
  functioning
• Ecological aspects of biogeochemical cycles
• Ecological implications of climate change
• Ecology and evolution of infectious disease
• Invasive species
• Land use and habitat alteration

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Future Meetings/Workshops of GLEON

• Kellogg Biological Station (May 12-13, 2004)
• U of Michigan Biological Station (October 2004)
• U of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center
  (Spring 2005)

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Regional NEON Groups
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