http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/neon-ecological-laboratory-risk-fired-advisers-warn-nsf-after-shakeup

Ecologists take vegetation measurements in 2018 at NEON’s Toolik Lake site in northern Alaska.

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.