Open Meeting
High-Latitude Ecological Observatory (HLEO) network, a regional NEON group
Monday, 28 February 2005
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Wood Center Ballroom, University of Alaska Fairbanks
For more information, including registration and a preliminary agenda,
see:
http://www.hleo.org
or contact:
Donie Bret-Harte
Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Phone: 907-474-5434
E-mail: ffmsb [at] uaf.edu
The High-Latitude Ecological Observatory (HLEO) network, a regional
National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) group, will hold an open
meeting Monday, 28 February 2005, in the Wood Center ballroom, at the
University of Alaska Fairbanks, from 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Everyone
interested in finding out about and/or participating in HLEO is invited
to attend. Please register for the meeting by visiting:
http://www.hleo.org
There is no fee to attend the meeting, but lunch will be provided to
registrants. Participation by people from a diversity of disciplines,
organizations, and perspectives is encouraged.
Now is the time to act, if regional groups wish to participate in the
planning and influence the development of NEON, a major NSF initiative
to establish a national platform for integrated studies and monitoring
of natural processes at all spatial scales, time scales, and levels of
biological organization, with the goal of forecasting ecological change.
Planning for the national NEON design has begun and will be completed in
the next year. Regional groups may have a role in implementing NEON once
the national planning is complete, if they are sufficiently
well-organized.
The purpose of this open meeting of the HLEO is to:
1) inform participants about the national planning process and regional
organization for NEON and other related initiatives,
2) identify regional opportunities for participants,
3) provide feedback to the national NEON consortium on the results of
the planning efforts so far, and
4) identify key regional questions, gradients that could be used to
answer them, and identify existing data, infrastructure, and resources
in the HLEO network.
The HLEO open meeting is sponsored by the Institute of Arctic Biology,
the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the University of Alaska statewide,
and the National Science Foundation.
For more information, including registration and a preliminary agenda,
see:
http://www.hleo.org
More information on the national NEON planning effort and its output so
far is available at:
http://www.neoninc.org
HLEO Conveners:
Donie Bret-Harte
Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Phone: 907-474-5434
E-mail: ffmsb [at] uaf.edu
Brian Barnes
Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Phone: 907-474-7648
E-mail: ffbmb [at] uaf.edu
John Hobbie
Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Lab
Phone: 508-289-7470
E-mail: jhobbie [at] mbl.edu