Overview::The Third GLEON and CREON Joint Workshop

The Third GLEON and CREON Joint Workshop

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The Global Lake Environmental Observatory Network (GLEON) and the Coral Reef Environmental Observatory Networks (CREON) were formed in March 2005 during a workshop held in San Diego, CA. The GLEON and CREON projects serve to bring together lake and coral reef ecologists and biologists, computer scientists, and sensor network IT engineers and experts to help exploit the new opportunities that cyber infrastructure has to offer. The goal of the GLEON/ CREON workshops is to build capacity and link the infrastructure of all involved communities. A subsequent GLEON/CREON workshop was held in March 2006, in Townsville, Australia, in order to track the progress of the first meeting.

The third GLEON/CREON workshop, to be held at the NCHC's Hsinchu, Taiwan headquarters office on Oct. 3rd and 4th, will be conducted to help determine GLEON and CREON’s expansion and progress over the next two years. The workshop will include discussions on topics such as what lake and coral reef sites will be incorporated into the program, what data formats, protocols, and interfaces should be utilized, and what IT architectures and models the project should be incorporated in the future. The workshop will also focus on how best to educate and disseminate GLEON/CREON advancements to our community and to our public.

Two parallel field studies have been arranged for this workshop. Each field study will allow participants to visit one of two major Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites located in Taiwan. The first field study will be conducted at Yuang-Yang Lake and will focus on alpine lake limnology. The second field study will be conducted at Kenting National Park and will focus on Marine Biology. Participants in both studies will stay at their respective sites for several days to observe and experiment with the existing sensor networks and infrastructure.

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