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Dr. Jim Collins on NEON: Are you ready?

October 14, 2009

In this presentation, Dr. James P. Collins presented a compelling vision for how NEON fits into US plans to address environmental challenges in the coming decades. The following five clips provide the presentation in entirety; viewers can choose to view the talk with PowerPoint or without.

Part 1: The changing science and technology environment

Part 2: Changing ways of doing science

Part 3: Managing the science

Part 4: Large-scale infrastructure for the biological sciences

Part 5: Synthesis

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