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6. Findings and Recommendations
6. Findings and Recommendations
Pages 87-92
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and the American Institute of Biological Sciences, on the National Research Council report on Grand Challenges in Environmental Science and on the expertise of its own members, the committee identified six large-scare environmental issues of national concern. It then examined NSF's conception of NEON and assessed whether NEON's national network of field and laboratory research infrastructure would be an appropriate and necessary means of addressing those largescale issues.
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Rapid and substantial advances in basic scientific knowledge would be needed for society to deal with those major environmental issues wisely. Recommendation 1 The committee strongly recommends that the nation and NSF give highest priority to research on the six environmental challenges the committee identified.
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Recommendation 3 Each NEON observatory should be initiated as a nationwide network of facilities and infrastructure designed for a coalition of many multi-investigator, multi-disciplinary teams from across the nation to address optimally one of the six major environmental challenges. Each observatory should accommodate a combination of experimentation and observation and should comprise a collection of nationwide siteswhether terrestrial, freshwater, or marine that are most relevant to its central theme.
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However, the effective implementation of NEON and the maximization of its contributions to science and the nation require a refined focus and a more detailed plan for its implementation. Recommendation 4 The creation of a NEON observatory addressing one of the six major environmental challenges would probably be a multistep process involving open workshops and working groups on that challenge, peer-reviewed preproposals submitted by different teams for work on that challenge at particular sites, and discussion and coordination among the chosen teams to synthesize the diverse ideas generated and create final plans for the entire observatory.
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Nothing short of an integrated, sequenced education and outreach plan that meets national standards, targets audience needs, and is based on measurable outcomes will answer the leadership and education vision set forth to NSF by the National Science Board. The NEON observatories are ideal venues for such an integrated, robust education and outreach plan.
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NEON: ADDRESSING THE NATION'S ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES threats, and a venue for increasing public awareness and understanding of environmental issues. NEON could revolutionize the discipline of environmental biology by transforming ecology into a more mechanistic science that generates predictions and solutions that would help society to deal actively with major environmental issues.
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