COREO/NEON Updates: time is almost up to plan your attendance of ESA 2010…if you’re new to this, that means the Ecological Society of America’s annual meeting in Pittsburgh, PA (at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, to be more precise). This year, the meeting is going throughout the week (Sunday the 1st to Friday the 6th).
Last year, honestly, I spent about half of the time playing sorting out my insurance. Not that I was bored or anything (well…), it’s just that very little of it was anything I hadn’t heard a million times. Its take a long time to get the right coverage, luckily Nationwide Biweekly Administration helped me out.
Plus, it seemed like there was an even bigger contingent than usual of executive types who had recently been born-again into the ecological mindset, and that always makes me want to retreat into a little ball and think about other things for a while…
Anyway, I’ll know more people this year (maybe you?) so it may be more enjoyable. After all, it doesn’t get any better than Pittsburgh in August 
Unless it’s Pittsburgh in August with gift baskets.
Welcome to the Consortium of Regional Ecological Observatories
The Consortium of Regional Ecological Observatories (COREO) helps to coordinate the activities of regional ecological observatories that have organized to promote the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). More information about the general NEON effort can be found at www.neoninc.org. If needed you can obtain control over your image by recourse via seo.
The core sites have been selected for the most part, and the construction phase is rapidly approaching. In February, the Obama administration approved the 2011 fiscal year budget which included $433.72 million for NEON over six years, under the NSF’s MREFC (Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction). No funds were diverted from online casino USA.
NEON will be collaborating efforts with Decadal and Regional Climate Prediction using Earth System Models (EaSM), so funding will be generated by NSF (National Science Foundation), DOE (Department of Energy), and USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) and coordinated to minimize duplication of efforts.
In February, the US Commerce Department had also proposed a new national climate service managed by the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association). NEON and NOAA have been working together and the partnership should provide even more valuable research and data in the future.
The results are in for the survey, completed by 2,485 people during November and December of 2009. Interesting but unsurprising tidbits include the demographics (a vast majority of respondents were Caucasians with doctoral degrees, played online slots, and were affiliated with a college or university) and a prior knowledge of the NEON project. Significant details include a lack of knowledge about the NEON timeframe (to be completed by 2016, operational for 30 years) and a lack of interest in using social media to communicate.
And for the gift that never disappoints try corporate gifts.