Goals

Through collaboration with its partners and and the development of novel cyberinfrastructure, CEON aims to provide and facilitate:

• Access to data and information.
• Access to facilities.
• Mobility of researchers.
• Adequate coverage of common and standardized observations.
• Adequate coverage of regional observatories.
• Up-scaling of site specific observations.
• Support for circum-arctic, regional, thematic and global research and observing programs.
• Parameterization and validation of models and remote sensing.
• Exploitation of data archives, proxies and re-occupation of abandoned sites.
• Rapid responses to environmental emergencies.
• Development and testing of methodologies and sensors.
• Testing and development of ecological (and other disciplinary) theory.
• Education and communication.