NEWS@NEON Spring 2010 Edition Published
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The Spring 2010 Edition of NEWS@NEON is available. This edition includes a link to a recorded talk by Dave Schimel at the USGS
Campus in Menlo Park, CA (you may also wish to check out Jim Collins' talk if you have not seen it). Also included are:
To sign up for these quarterly updates, click here. Also, check out the calendar of key dates (below, right side-bar) for annual meeting dates of earth system sciences related organizations.
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NSF Environmental Synthesis Center
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 The recent NSF solicitation for an Environmental Synthesis Center mentions NEON, OOI and other
NSF observatories as potential partners. NEON is excited to provide
transformational capabilities in support of current or potential future
NSF solicitations and welcomes inquiries from prospective Principal
Investigators. NSF's proposed investment in NEON infrastructure, and
particularly data and data management capability, workflow environment
for complex models and algorithms and data publishing capability, would
be available to a Synthesis Center. As an NSF Facility, NEON will
provide infrastructure to the scientific and educational communities,
including future research projects, Centers and other activities.
However, as an NSF-supported Implementing Organization, NEON, Inc.
cannot offer exclusive support to any proposal in any way that would
unfairly affect the outcome of competition. Please contact the NEON
Principal Investigator with any inquiries (dschimel@neoninc.org).
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NSF Program Officers / Federal Interagency NEON Briefing
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 As part of NSF's ongoing effort to foster cooperation between Federal agencies on climate change related science and education, NSF Bio organized a joint briefing for NSF Program officers and representatives from other Federal agencies on 3/5/10. The 90 minute briefing was attended by over 60 persons with about two dozen others joining in remotely. This reflects an increasing level of interest in the use of NEON as a platform for enabling research and operational activities.
NEON, Inc. and the Department of Interior have recently stepped up
interactions aimed at designing specific activities that leverage each
organization's unique capabilities in the areas of data sharing, data
integration, development of adaptation and mitigation strategies,
communications, and education. NSF and NEON, Inc. leadership
will continue to extend our collective efforts to foster data and process interoperability between government entities, both within and outside the United States.
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| NEON on the International Scene |
- NEO
 N, Inc. staff attended the GEO-BON (Group on Earth Observations - Biodiversity Observation Network) workshop (Asilomar, CA, Feb 23 - 25, 2010). Michael Keller and Cara Gibson contributed to a plan for coordinating international biodiversity observations in support of US GEO. The United States, working through the USGEO, is a founding member and vital contributor to the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO). This group is developing GEOSS, the Global Earth Observing System of Systems.
- NEON was represented at the Canadian Carbon Program (Montreal, Canada, February 26-28, 2010) meeting by Michael Keller. Dr. Keller presented a summary talk on NEON science plans and discussed mechanisms for sharing of data and protocols.
- NSF hosted a workshop for the United Kingdom Natural Environment Research Council (Arlington, VA, Mar 1 - 2, 2010) with a focus on Critical Zone Science. The Consortium
of Universities for the Advancement of the Hydrological Sciences (CUAHSI), Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) program, and NEON were the US NSF funded observatories featured at the workshop. NEON was jointly represented by Elizabeth Blood (NSF), Montona Futrell-Griggs (NSF), and Brian Wee.
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Solicitations
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(Please click the respective links to check the original source of information. The abbreviated text below may not reflect amendments to the original announcements, and may not reflect the original intent of the solicitation.)
- NSF / Dimensions of Biodiversity
- Excerpt: The
Dimensions of Biodiversity initiative seeks to characterize biodiversity
on
Earth by using integrative, innovative approaches to fill rapidly the
most
substantial gaps in our understanding of the diversity of life on Earth.
This
campaign will take a broad view of biodiversity, and in its initial
phase will
focus on the integration of genetic, taxonomic, and functional
dimensions of
biodiversity.
- Critical dates: Letter of intent due May 7 2010. Full proposal due June 8, 2010.
- NSF / Climate Change Education (CCE): Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) Program, Phase I (CCEP-I)
- Excerpt: The Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) program seeks to
establish a coordinated national network of regionally- or
thematically-based partnerships devoted to increasing the adoption of
effective, high quality educational programs and resources related to
the science of climate change and its impacts. Each CCEP is required to
be of a large enough scale that they will have catalytic or
transformative impact that cannot be achieved through other core NSF
program awards.
- Critical dates: Letter of intent due April 23, 2010. Full proposal due May 24, 2010.
- NSF / Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century Workforce (CI-TEAM)
- Excerpt: Linked to create a comprehensive cyberinfrastructure, the systems,
tools, and services emerging from new technologies are enabling
individuals, groups, and organizations to advance research and education
in ways that revolutionize who can participate, what they can do, and
how they do it. The CI-TEAM program supports projects that position the national science
and engineering community to engage in integrated research and
education activities promoting, leveraging and utilizing
cyberinfrastructure systems, tools and services.
- Critical dates: Full Proposal due April 27, 2010.
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Key Dates in 2010
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01/28: Board of Directors Meeting (Boulder, CO)
05/20: Board of Directors Meeting (Boulder, CO)
08/01-06: ESA Annual Meeting (Pittsburgh, PA)
09/22: NEON, Inc. Annual Member's Meeting (Reston, VA)
09/23-24: NEON, Inc. Board of Directors Meeting (Reston, VA)
09/22-26: OBFS Annual Meeting (U. Mich. Biological Station)
10/14-15: AERC Annual Meeting (Washington, DC)
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