Tiaga & Tundra Ecological Observatories: A NEON Planning Initiative

February 27 & 28th 2006

Westmark Hotel
720 W. 5th St.
Anchorage, AK
1-800-544-0970

Organized by the Taiga & Tundra Regional Representatives:

Taiga
Jeff Welker, University of Alaska Anchorage
John Yarie, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Tundra
John Hobbie, Marine Biological Lab
Donie Bret-Harte, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Where, When, Who: We will hold an open meeting February 27 & 28 at the Westmark Hotel in Downtown Anchorage.

Why:
The purpose of the meeting is to begin developing a NEON "Prospectus" for the NEON Taiga & Tundra regions. At the COREO meeting in Michigan last November it was announced that NEON Inc. and NSF may request single "proposals" (= "Prospectuses") for NEON implementation in each NEON Region. This workshop is the beginning of our prospectus construction for the Taiga and the Tundra which will continue through the spring of 2006. To start this process we need to identify and organize what sites in the Taiga and the Tundra will serve as our urban, our wild and our managed sites. Each region throughout the county will have sites that fit the urban-wild-managed framework. See the Integrated Science Plan at NEONINC.ORG for more discussions of the specifics.

MEETING NOTES
(Word Document)