Alternative NEON Group

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Alternative NEON Group

• Jim Coleman
• Mike Donoghue (speaker)
• Alan Hastings
• Geoff Hill
• Ann Kinzig (graphic artist)
• Gary Wellborn

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Centralized (Old) Model
100 Million 10 Million per site
Site 2
Site 1
Central Coordinating Center
Site 5
Site 3
Site 4
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NEON Network

• 10 themes established by community
• Call for proposals by theme
• An observatory would be the central facility for
  a theme, but would collect data for all or most
  themes.
• After all observatories established, additional
  extensive sites established to fill geographic
  gaps.

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Alternative (Web) Model
80 Million 8 Million per site (6 M for
theme, 2 other) 20 Million (12 M for special
functions, 8 M extensive sites)
Theme 1
Theme 3
Theme 2
Theme 4
Theme 5
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NEON Network
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NEON Network
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NEON Network
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NEON Network
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Possible Themes

• Biodiversity (Collections Coordinator)
• Ecosystem Services Flux Tower Network
• Global Climate Change GIS, Remote Sensing
• Population dynamics/genetics Genomics Center
• Agroecosystems Chem Analysis Lab
• Invasive Species
• Land Use
• Land Margin
• Fire
• Fresh-water Resources
• Disturbance

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Advantages

• Identification of themes ensures coverage of
  compelling topics
• Thematic coordinating centers ensures networking
• Additional money for extensive sites ensures
  geographic coverage
• Centralized facilities increases efficiency
• Sells as package--intellectual coherence