The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), a half-billion-dollar facility funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), hopes to revolutionize ecology by collecting an unprecedented amount of data about long-term environmental changes across North America. But as NEON prepares to begin full operations, an abrupt leadership shake-up threatens to alienate the scientists who will be using those data and, thus, are essential to its success. On 8 January, Sharon Collinge, NEON9s chief scientist and principal investigator, resigned 4 days after Battelle Memorial Institute, which manages the network, fired two senior managers without her knowledge or consent. Within hours of Collinge9s resignation, Battelle dissolved NEON9s 20-member technical advisory committee, heading off a possible mass resignation of panel members opposed to Battelle9s actions.

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动摇威胁美国新生态设施

国家生态观测网络 (NEON) 是一个由美国国家科学基金会 (NSF) 资助的耗资 5 亿美元的设施，希望通过收集有关北美长期环境变化的空前数量的数据来彻底改变生态学。但随着 NEON 准备开始全面运营，突然的领导层更替可能会疏远将使用这些数据的科学家，因此，这些数据对其成功至关重要。1 月 8 日，NEON9 的首席科学家兼首席研究员 Sharon Collinge 在管理该网络的 Battelle Memorial Institute 在她不知情或未同意的情况下解雇了两名高级管理人员 4 天后辞职。在 Collinge9s 辞职的几个小时内，Battelle 解散了 NEON9s 的 20 人技术咨询委员会，