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The National Ecological Observatory (NEON)

The National Ecological Observatory (NEON). Brian Wee, Ph.D. Chief of External Affairs (Congressional and Federal Agency Liaison). NEON and the Earth System. Physical climate. Terrestrial energy/moisture. Human activities. Oceans. Water cycle & aquatic ecosystems. Soil.

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The National Ecological Observatory (NEON)

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  1. The National Ecological Observatory(NEON) Brian Wee, Ph.D. Chief of External Affairs (Congressional and Federal Agency Liaison)

  2. NEON and the Earth System Physical climate Terrestrial energy/moisture Human activities Oceans Water cycle & aquatic ecosystems Soil Terrestrial ecosystems & biodiversity CO2 Tropospheric composition Pollutants

  3. NEON Goal The goal of NEON is to enableunderstanding and forecasting of the impacts of climate change, land use change and invasive specieson continental-scaleecology by providing infrastructure to support research, education and environmental management in these areas. NEON Cause and Effect paradigm

  4. Connectivity • Atmospheric transport • Nitrogen deposition • Permafrost • Ecohydrological connectivity NEON PDR

  5. A National Observatory: 20 Eco-climatic Domains

  6. NEON Tower in Sterling, Colorado Sterling, CO (Corn field, private ownership)

  7. Site Schematic Instrumentation Hut Soil Array Keep Out Boundaries Meteorological Tower

  8. Intensive site measurements SOIL PROFILE

  9. Intensive site measurements 9

  10. Intensive site measurements AQUATIC DESIGN

  11. Human Observers and Laboratory Analyses • Biodiversity • Microbial Genomics • Productivity • Phenology • Infectious Disease • Systematics (Barcoding and BioArchive) • Biogeochemistry • Ecohydrology Biological Sentinel Measurements and Innovation: DNA Barcode Library

  12. Airborne Observation Platform (AOP) • Airborne Instrumentation • OptechWaveform-LiDAR • Imaging spectrometer • Applanixairborne digital camera • ApplanixGPS/Inertial measurement unit • Up-looking Ocean Optics Vis/NIR spectrometer (for atmos. correction) • AOP Sensor Technical Facility • Optical calibration lab, and sensor maintenance and support facilities

  13. NEON Airborne Campaigns • Nominally: 400 sq km extent around each of 60 sites every year at peak greenness (defined by MODIS NDVI) • Spectrometer • Pushbroom imaging spectrometer • Spectral range: 380 to 2500 nm • Spectral resolution: 10 nm • Spatial resolution: 1 m • Signal to noise: > 1000 in visible • AVIRIS Next Gen (NG) based on same design • Collaborations • Pathfinder flight over NEON’s Florida core site in 2010 • Planned collaboration with HyspIRI Mission Team (2012?)

  14. AOP Annual Tasking

  15. End-to-end information processing

  16. Examples of L1 – L3 Data Products(Selected products) Tower: δ13C-CO2 δ18O-H2O Dissolved inorganic 15N Dissolved inorganic 18O Wet deposition 13C Wet deposition 15N Aerosol Optical Depth 2-d windspeed-profile Air temperature-profile Atmospheric pressure CO2 Cross-wind (lateral) windspeed Diffuse PAR Incoming PAR Incoming radiation LW/tower Reflected PAR H2O-profile • Soil: • Soil temperature profile • Soil heat flux • Soil bulk density • Soil porosity • Water release curves • Soil CO2 profile • Soil water content profile • Minirhizotron fine root image • Minirhizotronhyphae image • Aquatic: • Surface water temperature • Surface water turbidity • Nitrate (NO3) • Nitrite (NO2) • Ammonia (NH4) • Total nitrogen (TN) • Dissolved inorganic nitrogen 15N • Dissolved inorganic nitrogen 18O

  17. Examples of L4 Data Products(Selected products) • Potential Evapotranspiration • Ecosystem water use efficiency (GPP/Tr) • Ecosystem Light use efficiency (GPP/iPAR) • Sensible and latent heat fluxes • Vapor pressure deficit (VPD) • Aerodynamic, Bulk Canopy, and Canopy Conductances • Atmospheric Stability; Monin-Obukhov Length (L) • Atmospheric Stability: Richardson number (Ri) • Albedo • Aerosol optical depth (AOD) • Total column water vapor • fPAR • Biomass • Ecosystem exchange • Net Primary Productivity

  18. Infrastructure Distributed » 60 Fundamental Instrument Units (tower, instrumentation hut, sensor nets) - 20 Permanent - 40 Relocatable » 30 Stream Sensor Nets and 6 Lake Buoys » 10 Experimental Stream Systems » 10 Mobile Labs • NEON Headquarters: • Control Center • CAL/VAL, Fabrication, Maintenance & Repair , and QA/QC Laboratories • Education/Outreach Portals/Tools

  19. NEON, Inc. the Organization • NEON, Inc. is a 501c(3) non-profit scientific organization with: • ~105 employees (as of February 2010) • 56 member institutions (universities and Federal entities) • 16 member Board of Directors • HQ in Boulder, CO with a government relations office in Washington, DC • NEON is an observatory managed by NEON, Inc. and funded by NSF.

  20. END http://www.neoninc.org Google “NEON data products” for data products catalog Brian Wee, bwee@neoninc.org The National Ecological Observatory Network is a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation and managed under cooperative agreement by NEON, Inc.

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