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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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

• Use

• 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

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(Michener, 2000)

NEON Use

• Science• Education• Policy- and decision-making

PredictedDistribution:Amur snakehead(Channa argus)

NEON

• Description

• Use

• Cyberinfrastructure issues

• 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 ?