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 bylaws for NEON.
Participants
March NDC Meeting Reports
Abiotic Sub-plenary ( Biogeochemistry, Climate, Hydroecology)
Biotic Sub-plenary (Biodiversity, Infectious Disease, and Invasive Species)
Consortium Development Committee
Education Committee
IT and Communications
Land Use
Research Infrastructure
Sensor and Sensor Networks
January Meeting Reports
Biodiversity Subcommittee
Biogeochemistry Subcommittee
Climate Subcommittee
Consortium Development Committee
Emerging Issues Subcommittee
Higher Education Subcommittee
Hydroecology Subcommittee
IT and Communications Subcommittee
Infectious Disease Subcommittee
Informal Education Subcommittee
Invasive Species Subcommittee
K-12 Subcommittee
Land Use Change Subcommittee
Research Infrastructure Subcommittee
Sensor and Sensor Networks Subcommittee