- ROMEO Communication Tools

• ROMEO Community (password protected area to discuss and create)
• ROMEO Listserve (post messages out to all members)

- Upcoming Events

- ROMEO Meeting Minutes

• Southern Rockies and Colorado Plateau NEON Minutes - Boulder, CO (Sept 2005)
• ROMEO Minutes - Ft. Collins, CO (Nov 2004)
• NEON Powerpoint - Ft. Collins, CO (Nov 2004)
• ROMEO Minutes - Boulder, CO (Apr 2004)

- ROMEO Spotlighted Field Sites

• Niwot Ridge, authored by Mark W. Williams, PI
• Loch Vale Watershed, authored by Jill S. Baron, PI (coming)

- National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)

Today's society faces many environmental grand challenges: biodiversity and ecosystem function, biogeochemical cycling, global climate change, hydroecology, infectious disease, invasive species, land use, and other emerging issues.

Through NEON we will have the scientific infrastructure and the intellectual capital to address these continental and regional scale issues, evaluate the impact, and begin to forecast biosphere phenomena.

• 6 minute video clip describes NEON and how it can be used to tackle important research. Originally produced as a CD-ROM by the Ecological Society of America. Transferred to streaming content by AIBS, with permission. More
  
  
• Hands-On NEON Mapping
  Maps containing the data used to develop the draft NEON climate domains are now available, along with an interactive tool for exploring the maps. The web-based mapping application was created by William Hargrove of the Environmental Sciences Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, developer of the mapping technique used to generate the NEON domain map. Users can zoom in, pan to areas of interest, and make comparisons between maps without losing their extent of interest when viewing the 30 original environmental variables, as well as the nine derived ouput maps. [Open mapping application]

- National Science Foundation (NSF)

• National Science Foundation Overview of NEON

- American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)

• Infrastructure for Biology at Regional to Continental Scales (IBRCS) Overview
• NEON Design Consortium Announcement (Sept 2004)
• NEON: Planning for a New Frontier in Biology (May 2003)
• Focus on NEON
• IBRCS Working Reports
• National Research Council (NRC) Report on NEON: Addressing the Nation's Environmental Challenges (2003)
• Report: A Plan for Developing and Governing the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) (Nov 2003)
• White Paper: Rational, Blueprint, and Expectations for the National Ecological Observatory Network (Mar 2003)

- Consortium of Regional Ecological Observatories (COREO)

The COREO web site contains a NEON Resources survey. Please have a look and encourage those in your region to help populate it. The survey has been created by the National Design Consortium's Facilities and Infrastructure Subcommittee to collect information about US research sites, collections, and analytical labs that could be useful for Network design. The survey takes 15 minutes to complete. The information collected will be made available to the design consortium as a map-enabled database.

- The 15 Regional NEON Observatories

• Antarctic NEON (AAEON) perhaps now (AREO)
• California Ecological Observatory (CALEON)
• Central US Ecological Observatory (CENTRUS)
• Great Lakes and Central States Ecological Observatory (GLACEO)
• High Latitude Ecological Observatory (HLEO)
• Intermountain Regional Ecological Observatory Network (IRON)
• (LMEON)
• Mid-Atlantic Region Ecological Observatory (MAREO)
• Neotropical Ecological Observatory (NEONEON)
• Northeastern Ecological Observatory (NEEON)
• Pacific NEON (PNEON)
• Pacific Northwest Regional Ecological Observatory (PNWREO)
• Rocky Mountain Ecological Observatory (ROMEO)
• Southeastern Region Ecological Observatory Network (SEEON)
• Southern Appalachians to Ozarks Ecological Observatory (SAPOZEON)
• Southwest Ecological Observatory Network (SWEON)

For general information on Regional NEON Observatories, see AIBS/IBRC.