NEON, the National Ecological Observatory Network, is in Obama’s 2011 budget and the NSF has approval to spend the money. The following were posted on the NEON website:
National Science Board authorization posted May 7, 2010 – http://www.neoninc.org/news/536
NEON as an Obama budget line posted Feb. 2, 2010 – http://www.neoninc.org/news/485
This has been a long time coming. I’ve been hearing about the upcoming NEON for at least 4 years.
