State of NEON: Where are we and what challenges and opportunities lie ahead? (original) (raw)

Abstract

Background/Question/Methods NEON is an NSF-funded distributed observatory that represents the agency’s first major facilities investment in biology. The vision of NEON arose from the ecological community as a means of answering some of the most exciting and challenging questions in continental-scale ecology. Designed with a 30-year time horizon and an open-access data policy, NEON’s mission is to enable understanding and forecasting of the impacts of climate change, land-use change and invasive species at regional to continental-scales. To fulfill that mission, NEON will provide data and information to scientists, educators, decision makers and the general public on biological processes and their responses to multiple stressors, and to make infrastructure assets available to support research, education and environmental management. NEON is now in its second full year of construction, and initial deployment of instrumentation is proceeding at numerous sites across the US. By the end ...

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