OPS 1 - Development of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON): Long-Term, Continental Scale Data and Information to Enable Ecological Understanding and Forecasting

Monday, August 8, 2011: 4:30 PM-6:30 PM
Organizer: Thomas Kampe
Co-organizer: Wendy K. Gram
The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a new major facility supported by the National Science Foundation designed to provide data and information to scientists, educators, decision makers and the general public on how land use, climate change and invasive species affect biodiversity, disease ecology, and ecosystem processes. NEON is a continental scale system that will collect consistent, calibrated data from 60 sites in the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico over 30 years. NEON will produce basic calibrated data and synthetic products. This information, the NEON data products, will be freely and openly available to scientists, educators, students, decision makers, and the public. The NEON infrastructure is a means to enable transformational science and to promote broad ecological literacy. In response to the needs of science and society, NEON will provide information to enable analysis and forecasting in the areas of bioclimate, biodiversity, biogeochemistry, ecohydrology, infectious disease, and land use and land cover. This proposed organized poster session brings together contributions that describe how NEON will collect, process, and deliver data in support of ecological analysis and forecasting by the scientific community. Contributions include descriptions of the NEON sub-subsystem designs, results of prototype efforts that inform the NEON design, analyses of the NEON network design, and early approaches to using NEON type data to solve problems in continental scale ecology.
Managing the calibration uncertainty and traceability for a large-scale ecological observatory
Aaron Joos, NEON Inc; Laura Leyba-Newton, NEON Inc; Henry W. Loescher, University of Colorado
NEON geographic products designed to enable continental-scale analysis and forecasting
Steven M. Aulenbach, NEON, Inc.; Brian R. Johnson, NEON, Inc.; Michele A. Kuester, NEON Inc.
Assimilation of flux measurements into the NEON-NCAR land surface model
Andrew M. Fox, National Ecological Observatory Network; William J. Sacks, National Center for Atmospheric Research; David J.P. Moore, University of Arizona; Dan M. Ricciuto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Steve Berukoff, National Ecological Observatory Network; David S. Schimel, Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology
Scaling NEON plant species distribution data
Nick Young, Colorado State University
NEON terrestrial field sampling: Designing large-scale, standardized sampling
Rebecca Hufft Kao, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.); Cara Gibson, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Rachel Gallery, University of Arizona; Courtney L. Meier, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); David T. Barnett, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Kathryn Docherty, Western Michigan University; Yuri Springer, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.); Elena Azuaje, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Kali Blevins, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Patrick Travers, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
A scalable strategy for plant biodiversity sampling
Paul Duffy, Neptune and Company, Inc.; David T. Barnett, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Elena Azuaje, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Rebecca Hufft Kao, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.); Joel McCorkel, NEON Inc.
The NEON approach to constructing an aquatic site
Heather Powell, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.); Stephanie Parker, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.); Keli Goodman, National Ecological Observatory Network; Allison Price, NEON, Inc.; Tom Cilke, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Craig Seeger, NEON
Strategies for measuring the biological community at NEON aquatic sites
Stephanie Parker, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.); Heather Powell, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.); Keli Goodman, National Ecological Observatory Network; Allison Price, NEON, Inc.
Continental representativeness of NEON's design for sensor-based measurements of soil properties
Edward Ayres, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Henry W. Loescher, University of Colorado; Hongyan Luo, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.)
Measuring the below ground environment: Prototyping borehole measurements
Tom Cilke, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Henry W. Loescher, University of Colorado; Ed Ayers, National Ecological Observatory Network; Hongyan Lou, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.)
Prototyping NEON’s eddy covariance measurements: Comparison of two closed-path infra-red gas analyzers
Hongyan Luo, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.); Henry W. Loescher, University of Colorado; Edward Ayres, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
How isotopes in water and carbon dioxide are used in the National Ecological Observatory Network sensor design
Bruce Vaughn, University of Colorado; Henry W. Loescher, University of Colorado; Laura Newton, National Ecological Observatory Network; Hungyan Luo, National Ecological Observatory Network
Data flows for NEON's fundamental instrument unit: Quality assurance and quality control approaches
Jeffrey Taylor, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.); Hongyan Luo, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.); Edward Ayres, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Chris Fiebrich, Oklahoma Mesonet; Steve Berukoff, National Ecological Observatory Network; Henry W. Loescher, University of Colorado
Standardization of key instrumentation and protocols among NEON and other agencies and networks
Henry W. Loescher, University of Colorado; J. William Munger, Harvard University; Hongyan Luo, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.); Bruce Vaughn, University of Colorado; Brent Holben, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; Tilden Meyers, NOAA; Edward Ayres, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Jeffrey Taylor, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.); Steve Berukoff, National Ecological Observatory Network
Development of airborne remote sensing instrumentation for NEON
Thomas U. Kampe, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.); Brian R. Johnson, NEON, Inc.; Joel McCorkel, NEON Inc.; Michele Kuester, NEON Inc.
Initial results from the NEON airborne observatory package pathfinder mission
Joel McCorkel, NEON Inc.; Thomas Kampe, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.); Brian R. Johnson, NEON, Inc.; Michele Kuester, NEON Inc.; Keith Krause, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
NEON: Directions and resources for long-term monitoring in soil microbial ecology
Kali Blevins, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Rachel Gallery, University of Arizona; Kathryn Docherty, Western Michigan University; Gary King, Louisiana State University; Patrick Travers, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Rebecca Hufft Kao, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.)
Integrative taxonomy for NEON's continental-scale terrestrial insect observations
Cara Gibson, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Kali Blevins, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Patrick Travers, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON); Rebecca Hufft Kao, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.)
A plan for public participation in NEON to inspire ecological understanding across the continent
Sarah Newman, NEON; Wendy K. Gram, NEON, Inc.; Sandra Henderson, NEON, Inc.; Lisa Gardiner, NEON Inc.; Dennis L. Ward, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.) Education and Public Engagement; Leslie Goldman, NEON Inc.
Prototyping effective practices in continental scale citizen science campaigns through project budburst
Sandra Henderson, NEON, Inc.; Sarah Newman, NEON; Dennis L. Ward, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.) Education and Public Engagement; Paul Alaback, University of Montana; Kay Havens, Chicago Botanic Garden; Lisa Gardiner, NEON Inc.; Wendy K. Gram, NEON, Inc.; Jennifer Schwarrz, Chicago Botanic Garden
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