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Yellow Bay, Montana Bio-station eyes role as ecological data hub

The view of the wide world is mighty big indeed, here from the front porch of the Flathead Lake Biological Station.

From here scientists can see wilderness lakes and mountaintop glaciers, Russia’s Kamchatka and the Sea of Okhotsk, even remote wild rivers running fast from Alaska to South America and right back up the Pacific Rim. The Biological Station provides this view of the world through the eyes of geneticists and ecologists, microbiologists, hydrologists, geophysicists and geologists, glaciologists, limnologists.

The view is a bird’s-eye, thanks to NASA, and it’s at ground level, thanks to the Taku River Tlingit people.

And if everything goes as planned, this view will soon be illuminated in bright NEON.

That’s NEON as in the National Ecological Observatory Network, a nascent program funded by the National Science Foundation and aimed at taking just the sort of world view offered by the Flathead Lake Biological Station and expanding it to encompass the nation.

By MICHAEL JAMISON of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2006/09/13/news/mtregional/news06.txt

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