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NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORKDave Tazik & NEON TeamToolik Field Station Vision WorkshopPortland, OR 2-4 August 2012
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A CONTINENTAL-SCALE OBSERVATION SYSTEM
A Continental Observation System
30 year period of observation
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… to enable understanding and forecasting of the impacts of climate change, land use change and invasive species on
continental-scale ecology
…by providing infrastructure to support research, education and environmental management in these areas
Causes of ChangeClimate
Land UseInvasive Species
Response to ChangeBiodiversity
BiogeochemistryEcohydrology
Infectious Disease
NEON Mission
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An Integrated Observing System
REMOTE SAMPLING
ONSITE SAMPLING
DATA PRODUCTS
NAT. DATA SETS
IndividualTeam
CommunityManagers &
Policy--makers
A User Facility and Community Asset
A 30 year period of Observation
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The NEON Questions
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Where will NEON observe?
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Observing Ecological Change
• Representative sampling
• Replication of gradients
• Detecting/attributing change over decades
• Standardized and transparent protocols
• Comprehensive set of observations
• Terrestrial and aquatic
• Sentinel taxa
• Field and lab analyses state-of-the-art
• QA/QC -- data quality and uncertainty
Free and open access to all NEON data*
* Unless legislatively protected
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NEON Data Products
• ~ 1600 Level 0 data products (primary observations)o Raw voltages from sensorso Information on collected flora/fauna(e.g. counts)o External DNA or chemical analysiso Raw LiDAR returns
• ~ 540 Level 1 data (QA/C, minimally processed)o One-minute average air temperatureo Site-level species compositiono Georectified LiDAR
• ~ 75 Level 2 (rectified) & Level 3 (common gridded)o Gap-filled one-minute air temp (L2)o Gridded canopy nitrogen estimate (L3)
• ~ 120 Level 4 (high-level, cross-subsystem integrative)o Net ecosystem exchangeo Canopy nitrogeno Microbial diversityo Aquatic nutrient flux
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• Terrestrial • Organismal (TOS)
• Instrumental (TIS)
• Aquatic• Organismal (AOS)
• Instrumental (AIS)
• Airborne (AOP)
• Research: Stream Ecological Observation Network (STREON)
Towers
Surface and ground water
Satellite Data
Airborne Remote Sensing
NEON Observing SystemsField Sampling
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TIS – Terrestrial Instrument System
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Atmospheric Measurements
Calibration for remotely sensing – Correct AOP for effects of incoming solar radiation, aerosols and water vapor
Ecosystem carbon, water and energy balance• Temperature
• Humidity
• Wind• Precipitation
• Radiation
• CO2
• Pollutants – e.g., ozone and reactive nitrogen
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TIS -- Soil Array
Physical and carbon cycle responses • Temperature
• Moisture
• Carbon dioxide flux (soil respiration)
• Root growth
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• Plant biodiversity • Plant biomass, leaf area, and chemical composition• Plant phenology• Birds• Ground beetles• Mosquitoes• Small mammals• Infectious disease • Soil microorganisms• Soil biogeochemistry
Terrestrial Observation System (TOS)
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Terrestrial Biological
Field Sampling
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• Algae
• Aquatic macrophytes, bryophytes and lichens
• Aquatic microbes
• Zooplankton
• Aquatic invertebrates
• Fish
• Aquatic habitat
• Sediment chemistry
• Water chemistry
Aquatic Observation System (AOS)
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Aquatic Instrument System (AIS)Aquatic
Tempwater, DO, turbidity, pH, conductivity
Chromophoric dissolved organic matter
Chlorophyll
Discharge/water level
Nutrient Analyzer – nitrate, phosphate, ammonia
Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR)
Bank-side – MicrometeorologyTempair, precipitation, barometric pressure, PAR, net radiation
Wind speed and direction
Camera
GroundwaterTemperature, level and conductivity
Sensor Design Testing
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AOS/AIS – AQU/STREON
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Experiment – STREON
NEON control reach
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STREON treatment reach
Instrument station, water sampling site
Experimental units (baskets )
Basket incubation (e.g. streamside flume or in situ recirculation chamber)
Nutrient addition station
water flowConsumer exclosure(electrified barriers )
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STREON – Stream Manipulation
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Spectrometry• Vegetation biochemistry & biophysical properties• Cover type & fraction
3 X Twin Otter aircraft
LiDAR altimetry• Vegetation structure• Sub-canopy topography• Plant biomass
High resolution photography• Land use & land cover
Airborne Observation Platform
2014: Toolik, Barrow, Caribou-Poker, & Healy
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The NEON Imaging Spectrometer
Continuous wvl coverage from 380 to 2510 nm High signal-to-noise ratio
(2x improvement over AVIRIS) 5 nm spectral sampling 1 mrad IFOV (1m GSD @ 1000 m flight altitude) High degree of uniformity across wvl‘s and field SWIR coverage provides information on
canopy moisture & nitrogen discrimination of non-photosynthetic components
Status• NISDVU delivered and operational• NIS-1 due 4/13; NIS-2 due 8/13
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Lignin
Leaf area index
Nitrogen
Canopy height
Scaling Terrestrial
Observations
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• 3 Airborne remote sensing systems
• 10 Mobile Deployment Platforms
• Sensor Infrastructure
• Biological Measurements
• Cyber-infrastructure
• CAL/VAL Lab
• Collections
NEON Assignable Assets
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NEON – Generated Natural History Collections
• Voucher collections of sentinel taxa
• Analytical samples
– Replicates for future re-analysis
– For external PI-driven research needs
– Storage in case of funding shortfalls
• Vascular plants and algae
• Animal tissues and genomic extracts
• Microbial communities
• Soils and sediments
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NEON – ALASKA
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Toolik Site
CORE SITE AQUATIC / STREON
AQUATIC
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• Construction mobilization & staging Feb 2015
• Civil infrastructure complete Jul/Aug 2015
• Field operations deployment May 2015 earliest
• Terrestrial instrumentation Sep 2016
• Aquatic/STREON instrumentation Sep 2016
Major Milestones**
**Tentative and subject to change
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• Tower: 2m x 2m x 6 m (L-W-H)• Boardwalk: ≤ 1 m at ground level• Instrument hut: ~20’ x 9’ x 8’ (L-W-H)
– Instrumentation, equipment, tools, safety equip & non-haz gas cylinders• Soil array: 5 arrays, ~ 25m apart• Power Supply: generators – fuel storage at parking & staging area• COMM: could be tied into the GCI fiber line• Security: a gate at the top of the first flight of stairs• Site Access:
– Summer access: Boardwalk to instrument tower– Winter access: Access via snowmobile and snowshoes
• Site Remediation: – Site Decommissioning and Restoration Plan– Host-specific requirements
Infrastructure
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• Lab space – 800 to 1,000 square feet
– Higher level of on-site processing
• Lodging (Construction) – NEON personnel and contractors
– Site survey and geotech work – Feb/Mar 2013
– Ground water wells – Feb/Mar 2015
• Lodging (Operations) – peak numbers up to 20
– Crews rotating from Fairbanks
– Full time and seasonal techs
• Garage space (Vehicles) – truck, boat and snow mobile
• Comm at Lake site – possible to tap into WIFI?
– Aquatic band width requirement (Lake Site) ~45Kb/s
Infrastructure Requirements
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• Instrument maintenance: 2-3 days every other week year round
• Organismal sampling: – Terrestrial: 30-50 plots during summer season
– Aquatic: stream, lake, and STREON
– Observations: Sentinel taxa
– Sample removal – some soil, sediment, water, plant and animal materials
• Airborne Observations: once per year during peak greenness
Operations
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Lab Equipment
• drying oven(s)• refrigerator• freezer• ultralow• high-precision balance• not so high precision balance• grinding mill• centrifugal mill • muffle furnace• fume hood• microscope? (may transport
samples back to Fairbanks)
• temporary sample storage• field equipment storage • flammables storage• corrosives storage• biohazard/hazardous waste
storage• gas cylinder storage ? maybe• dry ice readily available (may
need a machine to make this)• DI water readily available (may
need a DI water system)
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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.