Workshop: Optimizing NEON Science; Fall, 2016; Boulder, Colorado

国家生态观测网络旨在解决大陆规模的重大挑战问题，但近年来缺乏严格的社区参与。 该奖项将支持一个具有总体目标的研讨会，以确保氖采用最有效的数据获取和传播手段，对利益相关者社区具有最广泛的效用，并保持在方案限制范围内。讲习班的目标是：（一）根据满足当前技术进步和利益攸关方群体的预期需求的情况，评估当前的近地轨道设计;（二）制定新的方法，将氖数据与利益攸关方群体的数据相结合，包括氖场地主办方和其他有场地存在的各方;以及（iii）提供一个场所，以便战略性地与研究团体的关键成员重新接触，包括网站所有者和其他人（例如，NSF网络），他们正在生成数据，这些数据可以通过与氖的合作来协同增强。该研讨会将包括早期，中期和后期的职业参与者，并鼓励与我们的参与者未来的参与机会。在以前NSF授予氖的基础上，研讨会还将包括来自历史黑人学院和大学（HBCU）和部落服务机构（TSIs）的参与者。研讨会的记录将通过基于网络的文件，直接邮寄和正式的同行评审出版物来共享NEON是围绕开放获取数据模型设计的，以评估七个国家科学院的重大挑战（生物多样性，地球化学，气候变化，生态水文学，传染病，入侵物种和土地利用变化）。这次讲习班的一个成果是对计划的和有代表性的氖激光进行简要审查，并根据科学的现状对这些激光的适当性进行评估。这些简要审查的结构（重点）将是提供技术评估，确定方法学的未来改进，以及实现这些改进所需的相关时间框架和投资，沿着评估这些改进将为社区提供的额外价值。简要审查还将用于为当前和未来的氖活动提供信息。 研讨会提出的建议可作为运营部氖持续改进过程的一部分，列入未来规划和实施的队列。

The National Ecological Observatory Network was designed to address grand challenge questions on the continental scale, but has suffered from some lack of rigorous community engagement in recent years. This award will support a workshop with overarching objectives to ensure that the NEON is employing the most effective means of data acquisition and dissemination, has the broadest utility to stakeholder communities, and remains within programmatic constraints. The goals of the workshop are to: (i) assess the current dataflow designs in light of both meeting current technical advancements and the expected needs of the stakeholder communities; (ii) develop new approaches for integration of NEON data with those of stakeholder communities, including NEON site hosts and others with site presence; and (iii) provide a venue to strategically re-engage with key members of the research community, including site owners, and others (e.g., NSF networks) who are generating data that can be synergistically enhanced by collaborations with NEON. The workshop will include early-, mid-, and late-career participants and encourage future engagement opportunities with our participants. Building upon previous NSF awards to NEON, the workshop will also include participants from Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Serving institutions (TSIs). Workshop proceedings will be shared through web-based documents, direct mailings, and formal peer-reviewed publicationsNEON is designed around an open access data model to assess the seven National Academy of Sciences Grand Challenges (biodiversity, biogeochemistry, climate change, ecohydrology, infectious disease, invasive species and land use change). An outcome of this workshop will be summary reviews of the planned and representative NEON dataflows, and an assessment of the appropriateness of these in light of the current state of the science. These summary reviews will be structured (focused) to provide technical assessment, identify future improvements in methodologies, with associated time frames and investments required to effect those improvements, along with an assessment of the additional value these would provide the community. The summary reviews will also be designed to inform current and future NEON activities. Recommendations from the workshop may be placed in a queue for future planning and implementation as part of a continuous improvement process of NEON in Operations.