National Ecological Observatory Network
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National Ecological Observatory Network
• Description
• Use
• Cyberinfrastructure issues
NEON
• Description
• Use
• Cyberinfrastructure issues
What is NEON ?
• Continental-scale research platform – transform ecological research– enable ecological forecasting– highly distributed
• NSF’s MREFC Account• Multi-year build-out phase• 30-year life span• “2-year” design phase, $6M
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NEON NEON Conceptual ObservatoryNEON Conceptual Observatory
Federal Research SiteFederal Research SiteNatural History CollectionNatural History Collection
Field StationField Station
UniversityUniversityResearch FacilityResearch Facility
NatureNatureConservancyConservancyPreservePreserve
USDAUSDAResearch StationResearch Station
National Wildlife RefugeNational Wildlife Refuge
National ParkNational Park
UniversityUniversity
Long Term Ecological Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) SiteResearch (LTER) Site
Conceptual schematic of a NEON network showing notional sites on map of U.S. and statewide network of possible research sites.
Core Site
Re-defining NEON
National Ecological Observatory Network(AIBS NEON Design Consortium)
Senior Management Team(PI, Co-PIs, & Select Co-Is)
Hayden, Baru, Brewer, Estrin, Franklin, Goldman, Krishtalka, MacMahon, Michener, Ostrom
NEON Project Office & Contractors
Consortium Development Committee
Franklin & Levitt
Education CommitteeBrewer & Huenneke
GK-12 Training Subcommittee
Cid & Diamond
Undergraduate, Graduate, & Postgrad. Training Subcommittee
Huenneke & Wyatt
Informal Education Subcommittee
Brewer & Stevenson
Facilities & Infrastructure Committee
Michener & Estrin
IT & Communication Subcommittee
Baru & Welge
Research Infrastructure Subcommittee
Swain & USDA rep
Sensor & Sensor Networking Subcommittee
Estrin & Hamilton
NEON Advisory Board*Bartuska, Bierbaum, Fraser, Hooper,
Huggett, Likens, Madia, Orcutt, Reitherman, Soberon, Winter, Vaughan
Science & Human Dimensions CommitteeMacMahon & Ostrom
Biodiversity Subcommittee
Krishtalka & Gross
Infectious Disease Subcommittee
Collinge & Ostfeld
Invasive Species Subcommittee
Goldberg & Sakai
Climate Change Subcommittee
MacMahon & Peters
Biogeochemical Cycles Subcommittee
Nadelhoffer & Johnston
Land Use Subcommittee
Foster & Swanson
Hydroecology Subcommittee
Palmer & Mulholland
Emerging Issues SubcommitteeReichman & Ruckelshaus
National Network Design Committee
Hayden & Michener
NEON
• Description
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• Cyberinfrastructure issues
Black Sunday. April 14, 1935
Loss of life, reduced quality of life, and agricultural depression had economic and social ripples to other parts of the country.
The “Dust Bowl”
Abstraction of
phenomena
(Michener, 2000)
NEON Use
• Science• Education• Policy- and decision-making
PredictedDistribution:Amur snakehead(Channa argus)
NEON
• Description
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• Control, calibration and monitoring– heterogeneous, distributed instrumentation – single instruments & experiments
CENS, ROADnet, SIO
Cal IT2
Celera
Cyberinfrastructure for NEONmust support:
Cyberinfrastructure for NEONmust support:
• Data accessibility and rapid communication– data, information and knowledge
LambdaRailwww.nlr.net
Cyberinfrastructure for NEONmust support:
• Data accessibility and rapid communication– data, information and knowledge
Cyberinfrastructure for NEONmust support:
• Powerful data integration, management, analysis and visualization capabilities
Cyberinfrastructure for NEONmust support:
• A new science culture– standardization & harmonization– sharing– effective collaboration
7 Major CI Challenges + 1
1) Hardening of developing cyberinfrastructure2) Bandwidth to the last mile3) Metadata standards (sensors, arrays, etc.)4) Smart sensor networks5) Archives6) Semantic mediation (structure, schema,
syntax)7) Usabilty of software and hardware• What to throw away and what to keep ?