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Bill Martin
Bill Martin Bill is a Southern Appalachian native who spent most of his young life exploring the diverse ecosystem near his home range, thereby fostering an enduring passion for environmental and life science. He began his career at the Pantex nuclear ��
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Courtney Meier
Courtney Meier Dr. Meier is a lead scientist for the NEON Terrestrial Observation System (TOS), and is primarily responsible for development, implementation, and data quality as related to NEON plant biomass and productivity sampling. He oversees ��
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John Musinsky
John Musinsky John Musinsky is responsible for designing NEON's airborne remote sensing flight campaigns. His work involves the analysis of satellite, airborne and near-surface remote sensing observations to map ecological communities and develop and ��
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Stephanie Parker
Stephanie Parker Stephanie is an aquatic ecologist working in the Aquatic Observation System team. Her work at NEON ranges across the aquatic data products, including aquatic microbial sequencing and cell counts, algae (periphyton and phytoplankton) ��
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Natchaya Pingintha-Durden
Natchaya Pingintha-Durden Natchaya earned her B.S. in Horticulture and Ph.D. in Agronomy at Chiang Mai University in Thailand. While in grad school, she interned with the Lab for Environmental Physics at The University of Georgia, where she learned about ��
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Cory Ritz
Cory Ritz Cory has a diverse background in business and environmental science. He received a M.S. in Watershed Science and Policy (2010) from California State University Monterey Bay, and a B.A. in Economics (1993) from University of Maine. His primary ��
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Michael SanClements
Michael SanClements Since 2015 Mike has led the Terrestrial Instrument Science (TIS) Team at NEON providing technical and management oversight of NEON’s 47 terrestrial field sites and their instrumentation. In addition to leading NEON’s TIS team, he has ��
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Kate Thibault
Kate Thibault Kate Thibault is the Science Lead for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), managing the Science components of the NEON program, providing budget oversight for and technical guidance to the Science Leadership team, the Program ��
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Rommel Zulueta
Rommel Zulueta Rommel currently leads the NEON Assignable Assets Program and is still involved with the Instrumented Systems group. He is a micrometeorologist whose research included studying ecosystem fluxes across arctic tundra, boreal forest, ��
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Product Documentation
Product Documentation All documentation associated with collecting and producing NEON data are open and available through the NEON Data Portal Document Library . Associated documentation includes collection protocols; sensor command, control and ��
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Project BudBurst
Project BudBurst Project BudBurst is a nationally recognized citizen-science plant phenology program that engages people from all walks of life to help monitor changes in plants through the seasons. In 2016, Project BudBurst transitioned to the Chicago ��
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How is a deer mouse like a grad student?
How is a deer mouse like a grad student? By Kate Thibault The majestic, 500-pound lion lazing in the grass awaiting its next meal (provided generously by the females in his pride). The surprising, 20-foot-tall giraffe grabbing leaves with its ��
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Taking a hike before I fly
Taking a hike before I fly By Keith Krause It’s hot. Like, 100 degrees F hot. And I’m carrying around this heavy, ultra nerdy backpack (which engineering school definitely prepared me for) with a laptop slung around my neck. As I make my way through the ��
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Eyes in the Field, Boots on the Ground
Eyes in the Field, Boots on the Ground By Sandra Henderson Wildflowers, bats, and live music are just some of the pleasant things I associate with Austin, Texas. However, after recently participating in the first ever SXSW Eco conference, I will now think ��
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When ecosystem engineers throw a wrench in your gears
When ecosystem engineers throw a wrench in your gears Imagine the scene: a sunny spring day on the plains of eastern Colorado, grasses gently swaying in the breeze, and a clear, gurgling stream winding its way across the landscape. Standing on the stream ��
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Tracking a million trillion trillion unseen lives, with help
Tracking a million trillion trillion unseen lives, with help By Jacob Parnell Even after more than a decade of working with microbes, I still find it amazing that more than 99% of the biodiversity on Earth is invisible. Microbes more than make up for ��
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Constructing the NEON user facility to support projects large and small
Constructing the NEON user facility to support projects large and small In just under four months, civil construction will begin at the first NEON site . The timing couldn’t be better. Ecosystems are increasingly stressed by climate, movement of invasive ��
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Using long-term data sets to trace the impacts of environmental policy
Using long-term data sets to trace the impacts of environmental policy By Michael SanClements Just before I became a staff scientist at NEON, I and colleagues from the University of Colorado , Environmental Protection Agency , and University of Maine ��
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Macrosystems Biology: How to share, manage and cite big data and team science?
Macrosystems Biology: How to share, manage and cite big data and team science? By Dr. Dave Schimel Last month, I participated in the first Principal Investigator meeting of NSF’s new Macrosystems Biology program . The NSF solicits proposals to “support ��
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Windows into unseen waters
Windows into unseen waters By Michael Fitzgerald For most people, water is just something that comes out of a faucet in their house. We pay little attention to how it gets there. For some of us, though, water and especially groundwater is a continual ��
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Reflections on remote sensing, ecology and the NEON AOP
Reflections on remote sensing, ecology and the NEON AOP By Leah Wasser A few summers ago, I spent my time in the field hugging trees. While I’ve been called a hippie in the past, this was hardly hippie behavior. This was research. I was an ecology Ph.D. ��
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Creating a digital menagerie
Creating a digital menagerie NEON technicians will collect and identify countless insect specimens over the lifetime of the observatory. To put it into perspective, during a short prototype collection at one site over three weeks using 20 traps, we ��
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Learning on the fly
Learning on the fly By M. Johnson I got a little nervous as I watched the first group of people disembarking the plane and saw one of my AOP team members carrying two little white bags. I’ve never had a weak stomach or gotten motion sickness, but I’d also ��
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New York Now! features NEON's work at Harvard Forest, MA
New York Now! features NEON's work at Harvard Forest, MA Earlier this month, while most of NEON's science staff was soaking up the science at the Ecological Society of America's Annual Meeting in Portland , our Airborne Observation Platform team was in ��
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Building a community that thrives online, offline and after the meeting
Building a community that thrives online, offline and after the meeting By Sandra Chung Wordles of all tweets to the #ESA2012 hashtag from (left to right) Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of the meeting week. Word size corresponds to the frequency of its ��