NEON UPDATE
Jeff Taylor
Hongyan Luo
Keli Goodman
National Ecological Observatory Network
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NEON Goals
The overarching goal of NEON is to enable
understanding and forecasting of climate change,
land use change, and invasive species on
continental-scale ecology by providing
infrastructure to support research in these areas.
• Information infrastructure: Consistent, continental, longterm, multi-scaled data-sets and data products that serve as a
context for research and education.
• Physical Infrastructure: A research platform for investigatorinitiated sensors, observations, and experiments providing
physical infrastructure, cyberinfrastructure, human resources,
and expertise, and program management and coordination.
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Two Networks
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NEON-NADP Synergy: Opportunities!!
• Wet Deposition/NTN
– NEON is looking to add ~55 additional wet
deposition collection sites for 30 years of
operations
• Data Sharing
– All data collected by NEON is publicly available
via the NEON data portal (duplicate of the NADP
hosted data)
• Network Collaboration
– All NEON algorithms, model synthesis,
continental scale data maps, etc. will be
available
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NEON Science Facilities (subsystems)
FSU
Fundamental Sentinel
Unit
FIU
Fundamental Instrument
Unit
AOP
Airborne Observation
Package
AQU
Aquatic/STREON
LUAP
Land Use Analysis
Package
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Human Obs. Bioarchive
Automated
Instrumentation
Aircraft Remote
Sensing
Human
Obs./Automated
Instrumentation
Satellite Remote
Sensing +
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National Observatory with 20 Domains
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NEON-NADP Synergy: Current Plans
55 wet deposition collection sites. Why these sites?
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Terrestrial-Aquatic Co-Location
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NEON Sampling Instrumentation
Instrumentation:
• Manufacture: N-CON Systems
Company, Inc.
• Model: Trace Metal (TM) sampler
• Features: dual bottles and chiller to
accommodate wet deposition
sampling and precipitation isotopic
sampling. TM model is modified
from MDN 00-125-4 Automatic
Precipitation Sampler for Mercury
& General Purpose Sampling.
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NEON Instrument Location
Design
NADP
Elements NEON Aquatic
NEON Tower
Collector
location
Above canopy on the
tower top in the wellmixed layer
On the ground in an
open area with short
vegetation
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NEON-NADP Comparison Strategy
• First Co-located Sites (Summer 2014):
– Central Plains Experimental Range/Pawnee
grassland
– Woodworth
• Data Comparison:
– (Re)-evaluation based on results from initial sites
– Further comparison at CASTNET at Rocky
Mountain NP, Oak ridge, Niwot ridge, Caribou
Creek, etc.
• MOU to be discussed at Exec Meeting (Thursday)
• Analysis and Archiving will adopt the NADP
methods
– Available to the community through NEON and
NADP
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Additional Measurements: Tower 1
Additional measurements at NEON sites can
be helpful to interpret the results of wet
deposition:
• Climatic observations: winds (horizontal),
temperature, humidity, PAR radiation
profiles.
• Precipitation: bulk precipitation (both liquid
and solid), US CRN DFIR at core sites
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Additional Measurements: Tower 2
• Canopy
Aerodynamics
• Wind
(turbulent)
• Gas Chemistry
(O3, NOy, CO2,
H2O, isotopes)
• Aerosols
• Particulate
Matter (PM1,
PM2.5, PM10,
TSP) Filter
Archived
• Phenological
cameras
• Lots of Soil
Measurements
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Additional Measurements – Aquatics Sensors
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Additional Measurements – Aquatics Sensors
• In-stream
– Pressure Transducers
– Multisonde (2): Twater, DO, Turbidity,
– pH, Conductivity
– CDOM
– Nutrient Analyzer
– PAR
• Near-Stream – Micrometeorology
– Tair, Precipitation, BP, PAR, Net
Radiaiton
– Wind speed and direction
– Camera
• Groundwater
– Temperature, Level and Conductivity
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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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kgoodman@neoninc.org
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