tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164804243040726299.post2646022444311813992..comments2024-03-19T06:40:22.220-04:00Comments on The EEB & Flow: What is ecology’s billion dollar brain?Marc Cadottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08335319636148357534noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164804243040726299.post-30926927372063122492014-10-15T11:17:57.799-04:002014-10-15T11:17:57.799-04:00For what it's worth: I'd put my money on m...For what it's worth: I'd put my money on making a big summary of the knowledge we have, i.e. collating and cleaning all the data on traits, distributions, genetics etc., summarizing them in one big database and adding some algorithms for interpolation (as they do now in TRY) and same basic summaries. Maybe not enough to spend a whole billion, but I think it's this kind of open and large public infrastructure that we lack in ecology (maybe somewhere else as well).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164804243040726299.post-28087240519326947462014-10-07T22:27:23.690-04:002014-10-07T22:27:23.690-04:00it seems an huge sum of money to the poor ecologis...it seems an huge sum of money to the poor ecologist, but a few kilometres of highway cost much more than a billion dollar. Perhaps our society should change a little his priorities - and science will change too.Hans Castorphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016989070891441042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164804243040726299.post-84918026899759946442014-10-07T10:22:27.817-04:002014-10-07T10:22:27.817-04:00NEON would be one solution to the question. NEON would be one solution to the question. Caroline Tuckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09319215430054509345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164804243040726299.post-2041445803235271612014-10-06T13:00:22.801-04:002014-10-06T13:00:22.801-04:00Isn't this what NEON is?Isn't this what NEON is? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com