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SEARCH Open Science Meeting
October 27, 2003
Seattle, Washington, USA
CEON: A Terrestrial Circum-Arctic Environmental Observatories Network
Craig E. Tweedie1, Patrick J. Webber2
1Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, 100 North Kedzie Hall, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA, Phone 517 355 1285, Fax 517 432 2150, tweedie@msu.edu
2Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, 100 North Kedzie Hall, East Lansing, MI, 48824-1031, USA, Phone 517-355-1284, Fax 517-432-2150, webber@msu.edu
The concept of a terrestrial Circum-arctic Environmental Observatories Network (CEON) was introduced at Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) in 2000 at a meeting of the Forum of Arctic Research Operators (FARO: www.faro-arctic.org). CEON is conditioned by the need for increased international integration of research effort and the loss and/or danger of loss of continuous northern high latitude environmental observations. FARO has endorsed the CEON concept advocating that CEON be developed to promote environmental measurements and dissemination of these to Arctic researchers whilst encompassing and building on the strengths of existing arctic stations and environmental observatory networks. Since 2000, the CEON concept has increasingly received enthusiastic support from a variety of existing networks, disciplinary collaborations and research stations as well as endorsement from the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) (www.iasc.no).
Since the formation of a working group at ASSW 2002 to scope and develop the concept of CEON, presentations have been made at meetings of various networks, research collaborations and polar research boards in Europe, Russia and the United States in order to make contact and collect feedback from potential CEON stakeholder and user groups. Presentations have focused on the necessity for the CEON initiative to meet and promote the needs of the participating research community, science administrators, policy makers, industry, education and indigenous communities. In doing so, it has been stressed that CEON should be seen as a network that facilitates and encourages environmental monitoring, which provides linkages between disciplines and existing networks and connectivity spanning regional to circumarctic and global scales. Following CEON presentations audiences have been asked to introduce their own bias in the development of CEON by providing feedback to the following question: “What would you do if you had the opportunity to conduct standardized long term, integrated measurements across all research stations and networks in the Arctic?” This approach has facilitated the development of CEON based on the experience, needs and future directions envisaged by an international and broad range of potential CEON stakeholder and user groups.
The CEON initiative should not be seen as duplicating prior or ongoing research effort, but an international partnership that aims at forming a logistic and research framework within which ongoing and future research can be oriented to cumulatively form and facilitate long-term research endeavors in the Arctic. Based on recent scoping and development activities and the convention of the first planning meeting in October 2003, this presentation recapitulates the enthusiastic support for the initiation of CEON and outlines a conceptual roadmap for its inception. We invite your thoughts and ideas to facilitate the development of the CEON initiative.
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