Development and Operation of the NEON Project Management Office

摘要国家生态观测网（NEON）是一个大陆研究平台，旨在将我们对生物圈的认识扩展到区域和大陆尺度。通过遥感、原位观测、实验、综合和建模，NEON将为研究人员提供一种独特的能力来量化调节生物圈的强弱力量，并预测其对气候和土地利用变化的响应。NEON基础设施将包括现场部署的仪器塔和传感器阵列、遥感能力、尖端实验室仪器、自然历史档案以及数据分析、建模、可视化和预测设施，所有这些都通过网络基础设施骨干网络进行联网。基础设施将部署在美国大陆、阿拉斯加、夏威夷和波多黎各，采用统计确定的设计，根据气候和土地利用分层。NEON将创建的知识库、其实时和连续的综合数据、模拟和观察能力以及其联网通信将成为正式和非正式教育和培训的资产。NEON门户将为支持非正式公共教育提供资源，并为公民积极参与科学调查提供机会。该合同将提供必要的支持，以建立一个施工就绪的项目管理办公室，其人员和职能将最终确定设计，完成与现场相关的项目执行计划，并建立项目管理会计和报告功能。NEON, Inc.将扩大董事会，包括代表成为NEON， Inc.组织成员的组织或机构的民选董事会成员。将成立科学、技术和教育咨询委员会（STEAC）和项目咨询委员会（PAC），以提供研究界的投入和建议。将设立一个网络基础设施/嵌入式网络基础设施诊断试验台，进一步为NEON的技术设计提供信息。该测试平台将用于评估和减轻传感器和网络基础设施集成的风险。

AbstractThe National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a continental research platform being designed to extend our understanding of the biosphere to regional and continental scales. Through remote sensing, in-situ observation, experimentation, synthesis, and modeling, NEON will provide researchers with a unique capability to quantify the strong and weak forces regulating the biosphere and predict its response to climate and landuse change. NEON infrastructure will include field deployed instrumented towers and sensor arrays, remote sensing capabilities, cutting-edge laboratory instrumentation, natural history archives, and facilities for data analysis, modeling, visualization, and forecasting, all networked through a cyberinfrastructure backbone. Infrastructure will be deployed across the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico using a statistically determined design, stratified by climate and landuse. The knowledge base NEON will create, its real time and continuous integrated data, simulation and observation capabilities, and its networked communication will be an asset for formal and informal education and training. A NEON gateway will provide resources to support informal public education and provide opportunities for citizens to actively participate in scientific investigations.This award will provide the support necessary to establish a construction ready Project Management Office with the personnel and functions to finalize the design, complete a site-dependent project execution plan, and institute project management accounting and reporting functions. NEON, Inc. will expand the Board of Directors to include elected board members that represent organizations or institutions that become organizational members of NEON, Inc. The Science, Technology, and Education Advisory Committee (STEAC) and the Program Advisory Committee (PAC) will be established to provide input and advice from the research community. A Cyberinfrastructure / Embedded Cyberinfrastructure Diagnostic Testbed will be instituted to further inform the NEON technical design. The testbed will be used to evaluate and mitigate sensor and cyberinfrastructure integration risks.