At the September 2014 Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS) annual meeting, an ad hoc committee formed to explore interest by existing member field stations in a mountain observatory network.
Finding strong interest, a steering group scheduled a two day meeting to create a Global Network of Mountain Observatories, just prior to the 2015 OBFS annual meeting.
The National Science Foundation has funded this planning meeting (Award #154475), which will be held September 13-16, 2015 at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, CO.