Milestones: 2005

NEON Symposium and 2005 ESA Annual Meeting

Presentation materials from a symposium on NEON presented on August 8th at the 2005 annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Montréal, Canada.

NEON Design Consortium

NEON Design Consortium The NEON Design Consortium (NDC), comprising 160 scientists, engineers, and educators, first met in the spring of 2005. This consortium was charged with: (1) transforming the National Research Council’s “grand challenges in the environmental sciences” into a set of research questions, (2) identifying the data-collection infrastructure needed to address the questions, and (3) designing the outlines of an individual research site as an integrated system of measurement. A subcommittee of the NDC, the Consortium Development Committee, explored governance models and made recommendations on management structures, the composition of a NEON Board of Directors, and a set of…