GEO BON Working Groups: Getting Started

To start the GEO BON implementation process a variety of topical working groups were proposed at the January 2009 GEO BON Steering Committee meeting in Washington DC. These groups must now be formed and begin their work. To facilitate this process this note provides a draft description of each working group, suggests some WG members for each group, frames an overall approach to help each WG get started, and describes the essential output products that must be created.