Milestones: Pre-NEON

NEON Planning Workshops

NEON Planning Workshops For the initial NEON Planning Meetings, which occured early in 2000, the background of NEON grew out of previous discussions of a proposed Biodiversity Observation Network (BON), but participants expanded this to describe a network which would represent a broader, more interdisciplinary enterprise involving ecological, evolutionary and systematic issues extending far beyond biodiversity. The workshop participants represented fields of systematics, population genetics, evolutionary ecology, population biology, microbial ecology, animal behavior, physiological ecology, ecological informatics, and community, ecosystem and landscape ecology. These researchers work in both terrestrial and aquatic environments and with organisms ranging from microbes to higher…

Infrastructure for Biology at Regional to Continental Scales (IBRCS)

Infrastructure for Biology at Regional to Continental Scales The IBRCS Program, an effort by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), was launched in August 2002 with support from the National Science Foundation. It had the following goals: To help the biological and the larger scientific community—within and beyond the AIBS membership—to determine the needs and means for increased physical infrastructure and connectivity in observational platforms, data collection and analysis, and database in both field biology and other more general areas of biology and science. To provide for communications within this community and with NSF regarding the development and focus…

Biodiversity Observatory Network (BON)

Biodiversity Observatory Network Documents BON Planning Workshop I - September 1998, Blandy Experimental Farm, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA BON Planning Workshop II - January 1999, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA BON Planning Workshop III - May 1999, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA BON Planning Workshop IV - August 1999, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA…