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NEON to Receive First Spectrometer from NASA This Week
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has completed the first of three high fidelity imaging spectrometers for use on the NEON project, known as the NEON Imaging Spectrometer Design Verification Unit (NISDVU). The NISDVU is expected to be delivered at NEON headquarters this week. > Read More
NEON's Airborne observation team also traveled to California's San Joaquin Valley and southern Sierra Nevada to collect ground-based spectrometer and atmospheric measurements in parallel with a flyover of the same area with an airborne NASA spectrometer this summer. > More on that story
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NEON AND LTER - TWO COMPLEMENTARY NETWORKS
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The Long Term Ecological Research program and NEON are highly complementary networks that support ecological research in different ways, but are becoming more and more integrated over time.
Now that NEON is entering the construction phase, there are many other ways in which the LTER science community and NEON can interact in the future.The two programs will plan joint research, education, and informatics workshops, intensified involvement in each other's organizational committees, and scientific working groups.
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Meet Our First Two Field Operations Managers!
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Tracey Baldwin (pictured top left) is NEON's first domain staff hire, and she's no stranger to tough logistics. As a polar ecologist and lab and field manager, she's corralled equipment, supplies and transportation for research missions in some of the most remote and inhospitable places on Earth.
Tracey recently made the move from the Antarctic to Colorado to become NEON's first Domain Manager, serving Domain 10. She's now tackling the enormous task of getting a wide variety of field and lab activities in Domain 10 to run smoothly. The rolling grasslands of the Central Plains are a far cry from the Arctic tundra. But to Tracey, coordinating field prototyping activities here in Domain 10 poses many familiar challenges. > Q&A with Tracey
Bob Nelson (pictured bottom left) has spent his four-decade career immersed in the life and landscapes of central Florida. He began by fighting fires for the Florida Forest Service and made the transition to ecological restoration work with the Nature Conservancy at the Disney Wilderness Preserve, south of Orlando, Florida. A sponge for scientific and practical knowledge, Bob has absorbed everything from fire science to botany to invasive species ecology while overseeing his share of comprehensive land management projects. He's looking forward to helping NEON tap into the ecological pulse of his home state as the newly-minted manager of Domain 3. > Q&A with Bob
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2011 NEON Science Strategy Now Available
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The 2011 Science Strategy is now available for DOWNLOAD.
Thanks to all those thousands of colleagues who helped conceive, design, plan, review and promote NEON since its inception more than ten years ago. NEON would not exist without these contributions of expertise and time and without the support of the scientific community.
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