Third Annual NEON, Inc. Membership Meeting
| As we continue to prepare for the start of NEON construction, NEON, Inc. has been working with various Federal entities to assess how the NEON physical and information infrastructure can be leveraged to help them achieve their respective mission mandates. Food, air, water, fiber, and energy are essential components of the human enterprise, and NEON data and information will play a role in the responsible stewardship of these resources.
It is with this in mind that the NEON, Inc. Board of Directors has selected the Washington DC metropolitan area for the third annual NEON, Inc. Membership Meeting. We will be inviting Federal officials to the meeting, and you will get to see for yourselves how we, as the environmental science community, play a part in these national initiatives. The USGS, in support of this goal, has kindly offered NEON, Inc. the use of its meeting facilities at the USGS HQ in Reston, VA, a short ride from Dulles International Airport.
We hope you will be able to attend the meeting and be an active participant in defining our role in the national conversation on large-scale environmental change. Please consider sending delegates who hail not just from the environmental sciences, but also from the information sciences, engineering, and social sciences.
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Agenda
| Thursday, 9/23/10
1800: Reception for attendees to meet the NEON, Inc. Board of Directors and Guests from Federal agencies
Friday, 9/24/10
0645: Breakfast at hotel (included)
0715: First shuttle to USGS HQ starts
0800: Welcome
0815: Forum: Trajectory for NEON the Project
0930: Forum: Charting a Course for NEON, Inc. the Organization
1030: Break
1045: Panel Discussion: Federal Perspective: From Research to Operations
Panelists: Drs. Ann Bartuska (USDA), Tom Armstrong (US DOI), Gary Foley (US EPA)
1145: Keynote: Energy, Environment, and Environmental Observatories
Speaker: Dr. Sherburne Abbot (Associate Director Energy and Environment, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy)
1245: Lunch (included)
1315: Breakout: attendees to help shape the Roadmap for NEON, Inc. and to develop strategies to advance the environmental sciences
1430: Breakout Reports
1515: Close
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Attendance
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Registration
is required. Please consider sending delegates who hail not just from
the
environmental sciences, but also from the information sciences,
engineering, or social sciences. As with previous years, the lodging for up to two individuals (for up to
two nights each) from member institutions in good standing will be
covered by NEON, Inc. You are strongly encouraged to fly in on Thursday 9/23/10.
One of those individuals should preferably be the
designated institutional member representative, or an alternate.
For the second individual, we encourage member institutions to send an early career scientist. A limited number of travel support for airfare will be available for such early career scientists (advanced grad students, postdocs, or scientists in
positions less than 3 years) (see below).
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Travel Assistance (Limited)
| If travel assistance for the early career scientist (advanced grad students, postdocs, or scientists in
positions less than 3 years) is required, please fill out the travel support application, and email it to Brian Wee (bwee@neoninc.org) by 8/27/2008. The travel support covers airfare only: no additional travel related costs will be covered. Lodging costs for this individual will be covered by NEON, Inc.
IMPORTANT: The application needs to be submitted by you, the member representative. You need not register for the applicant for the meeting at this point in time: if the application is granted, we will get in touch with the individual directly for details.
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Registration
| Please register for the meeting at http://tinyurl.com/neoninc2010am by 8/27/2010 1700hrs Pacific Time.
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Critical Dates
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8/27/10: Meeting registrations due
8/27/10: Travel support applications due
9/23/10: Evening reception
9/24/10: Membership meeting
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