Transcript ppt - Sierra Nevada Research Institute

The National Ecological Observatory Network is a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation and managed
under cooperative agreement by NEON Inc.
Roger Bales
Professor & Director
Sierra Nevada Research Institute
UC Merced
Thanks to Tony Beasley for the NEON slides
NEON in California & the
CalEON network
– Ecosystem services & water
– Changes in native biodiversity & invasive species.
– Designed with climate change as the driver
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Three broad west-east transects & paired north-south
transects down the coast ranges &Sierra, joining at the
transverse ranges &extending to the peninsular ranges
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NRS sites
Ameriflux sites
Jasper ridge
UC campuses.
San Joaquin Experimental Range
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http://www.caleon.org
San Joaquin Experimental Range,
proposed NEON core site for California
NEON: National overview
• NEON: A continental-scale ecological observatory
• Four fundamental science subsystems sampling the
drivers/responses of ecological change on spatial
scales from microbes to land-masses
• Enable forecasting the impacts of climate change,
land use change & invasive species on continentalscale ecology
• Infrastructure backbone for other experiments in
NEON domains… GCE, STREON
• Design & development phase, construction 2010
NEON Fundamental Science Systems
FSU:
FIU:
Fundamental Sentinel Unit
Human
Observers/Samplers
Fundamental Instrument Unit
Automated
Instrumentation
AOP:
Airborne Observation Package
Aircraft Remote
Sensing
LUAP:
Land Use Analysis Package
Satellite Remote
Sensing +
+ Education: Prepare society & the scientific
community to use NEON data, information, forecasts.
NEON scientific deployment
20 Domains in U.S.
– 20 Core sites
– 40 Relocatable sites
– 18 Mobile laboratories
2 Airborne observing packages
Land use analysis package
NEON Domains
20 = Science + pragmatism….
Vegetation plot design
National Forest Service Inventory and Analysis
Program (Frayer and Furnival 1999)
168 m2 plot
Litter decomposition plot (1 m2)
Litterfall plot (1 m2)
Biomass plot (1 m2)
Soil Sampling (point sample)
Annular plot (17.95 m radius)
Downed Woody Debris (7.32 m)
Herb cover (1 m2)
Sapling/shrub biomass (2.07 m radius)
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Supporting facilities for science & education
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Chemical analysis facility
Isotopic analysis facility
Genomic analysis facility
BioArchive collections and curation
Calibration/Validation (cal/val) Laboratory
Training manuals and courses, colloquia
Digital field guides, keys, & manuals
Information for decision support
(longer term) Data and forecast production facility
NEON aquatic experiment: STREON
STREON Experiment
– Stream manipulation
– 10 locations in U.S.
– Low-order streams
– Nutrient additions (5x
ambient)
– Top consumer removals
– Conceptual design ready
Stream packages planned for KREW & Teakettle
Ongoing national activities
– Program & preliminary design reviews ongoing
– Arch/Eng – designs for 20 core sites, 40 relocatable
sites, associated cost estimates
– Environmental review underway, site permitting late
2009
– Construction… 2010, 5-yrs, early science ops 2012
– Aircraft evaluation program & instrument design
studies underway
– Prototyping of key technical systems, construction +
M&O procedures, underway – Table Mountain
NEON Transect
SJER
KREW
Soaproot
Wishon
Teakettle
Current domain activities
– Respond to information needs for design & NEPA
– Forming Domain Science & Education Committee