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

国家生态观测网络旨在解决大陆范围内的重大挑战问题，但近年来受到一些社区缺乏严格参与的影响。该奖项将支持一个讲习班，其总体目标是确保霓虹灯采用最有效的数据获取和传播手段，对利益攸关方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：(1)根据当前的技术进步和利益攸关方社区的预期需求，评估目前的数据流设计；(2)制定新的办法，将霓虹灯数据与利益攸关方社区的数据结合起来，包括霓虹灯网站东道主和其他有网站存在的人；(3)提供一个场所，从战略上重新接触研究界的关键成员，包括网站所有者和正在生成可通过与霓虹灯合作协同增强数据的其他人(例如，国家科学基金会网络)。研讨会将包括职业生涯早期、中期和后期的参与者，并鼓励未来与参与者接触的机会。在之前NSF颁发给霓虹灯的奖项的基础上，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(TSI)的参与者。研讨会记录将通过基于网络的文件、直接邮寄和正式的同行评议出版物共享。NEON是围绕开放获取数据模型设计的，以评估国家科学院的七大挑战(生物多样性、生物地球化学、气候变化、生态水文学、传染病、入侵物种和土地利用变化)。这次研讨会的成果将是对已规划的和有代表性的霓虹灯数据流进行概要审查，并根据科学的当前状况对这些数据流的适当性进行评估。这些摘要审查将被组织起来(重点)，以提供技术评估，确定方法的未来改进，以及实施这些改进所需的相关时间框架和投资，以及对这些改进将为社区提供的额外价值的评估。摘要审查还将旨在为当前和未来的霓虹灯活动提供信息。作为霓虹灯业务持续改进进程的一部分，讲习班提出的建议可放在队列中供今后的规划和实施。

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.