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 plants and vertebrates. The group was enthusiastic in its support of the overall potential of NEON.

Documents

NEON Planning Workshop I - January 2000, Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, FL
Focus: Formation, organization, and potential roles for NEON
NEON Planning Workshop II - March 2000, San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, CA
Focus: Technological infrastructure
NEON Planning Workshop III - May 2000, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM
Focus: Network management
NEON Planning Workshop IV - The Millennium Hotel, Boulder, CO
Focus: Standard equipment and measurements
NEON Planning Workshop V - June 2002, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Focus: Biological collections
NEON Planning Workshop VI - September 2002, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA
Focus: Information Management