BIOAC Briefing November 17, 2004

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BIOAC BriefingNovember 17, 2004

• Elizabeth Blood
• NEON Program Officer
• Eblood_at_nsf.gov

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NEON Activities

• Science Requirements Workshops
• NEON Award (6M AIBS)
• Inter-Agency Working Group
• Cross-Observatory Activities
• NEONinc.org

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Science RequirementsWorkshopsSummer 2004

• Invasive Species
• Biodiversity, species composition, and
  ecosystem functioning
• Ecological aspects of biogeochemical cycles
• Ecological implications of climate change
• Ecology and evolution of infectious disease
• Land use and habitat alteration
• Reports November 2004

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NEON AwardAIBS
Sixteen Prior NEON Workshops Process and
Activities

• Three Workshops (Jan, Mar, Jun)
• Refine Science Questions
• Science Requirements
• Infrastructure Requirements
• Integrated Science and Education Plan
• Networking and Informatics Backbone
• Design the Network
• Governance Management
• Project Execution Plan

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NEON Project Structure
Senior Management Team Hayden (PI), Baru,
Brewer, Estrin, Franklin, Goldman, Krishtalka,
MacMahon, Michener NEON Project Office -
AIBS Co-Directors - Hayden Michener Project
Manager Goldman Administrative, Financial,
IT Technical Services Contractors Resolve,
TRIAD, Organizational Advisory Board
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NEON Committees
Science and Human Dimension (SHDC) Biodiversity,
Biogeochemical Cycles, Climate Change,
Infectious Disease, Invasive Species, Landuse,
Hydroecology, Emerging Issues Education
(EC) Higher education, K-12, Informal
education Facilities and Infrastructure
(FIC) Research, ITCommunication, Sensors
Networking Consortium Development National
Network Design (NNDC)
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NEON ProductsNNDC
Science and Human Dimension Education Integrate
d Science and Education Plan (Requirements) Faci
lities and Infrastructure National Network
Design Reference Design National Network Design
TRIAD Project Execution Plan
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NEON AwardActivities
Advisory Board Meeting Nov. 15, 2004 Co-Chair
Meeting Facilitation Training Nov. 16 17,
2004 First Workshop Jan. 3-7, 2005 Marina Del
Re, CA
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Critical Dates
June 2004 Panel Site Visits August 2004 DRB
Review Sept. 15, 2004 Award AIBS Sept. 21,
2004 NEON Project Office open Mar. 1
2005 Consortium Project Office Oct. 1,
2005 Science Plan Requirements Baseline
Networking Informatics June 1, 2006 Preliminary
PEP for entire NEON
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Interoperability of Observing Systems
NEON, ORION, CLEANER, QUASHI, LTER Sensors
Workshop November 30-December 2, 2004 Seattle,
WA Cyberinfrastructure December 6 7,
2004 SEEK, GEON, LEAD
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NEON will be transformative

• NEON infrastructure can address technical issues
  of
• Scale
• Complexity
• Interacting Drivers
• Biological Processes

• Grand Challenges
• Invasive Species
• Biodiversity, species composition, and
  ecosystem functioning
• Ecological aspects of biogeochemical cycles
• Ecological implications of climate change
• Ecology and evolution of infectious disease
• Ecological Consequences of Land use and habitat
  alteration
• Hydroecology

• Advances for ecology
• Knowledge
• Discovery
• Technology
• Sensing
• Forecasting
• Collaboratory
• Educational tools
• Decision Support