Krista Laursen

NEON Welcomes New Project Manager

Krista Laursen will join NEON, Inc. in June as its next Project Manager.
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Inaugural Flights

Full Airborne Observation Platform Embarks on Inaugural Journey

The first test flights begin in Grand Junction, CO, next week.
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Windows into unseen waters

Measure twice, drill once. Capturing 30 years of variability in groundwater levels.
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Macrosystems

PI-Driven Projects on a Macro Scale

Learning how to share, manage and cite big data and team-driven science.
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NEON: A History

Recently, we began poring over meeting notes, videos, photos and logs to create a historical archive for NEON.
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Updates

Mourning The Loss of a NEON Stalwart

NEON mourns the passing of Dr. Pat Mulholland, a distinguished aquatic ecologist and dear colleague who led the development of the Stream Ecology Observation Network (STREON) experiment for NEON. ...

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Spatial and Temporal Scaling in Continental-Scale Ecology Workshop

This NEON-sponsored workshop is being held on June 11-12, 2012, in Boulder, CO, at the Millenium Harvest House Hotel. Registration is free, ...

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Staff Spotlight: David Tazik

Project Scientist and Director of Biology

Dave Tazik is an accomplished scientist. But he's not strictly academic. In the course of a 30-year career in natural resources management with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, he’s helped the Corps keep tabs on threatened and endangered species in a wide variety of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Early in his career he happily braved the thick brush and artillery fire at Army training ranges to get accurate wildlife counts, but his role with the Corps quickly evolved into managing other researchers and field crews. As NEON’s Project Scientist, Tazik aims to tap his experience to manage the delicate relationship between innovative science and a strict project schedule.

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Welcome to NEON

The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a continental-scale observatory designed to gather and provide 30 years of ecological data on the impacts of climate change, land use change and invasive species on natural resources and biodiversity. NEON is a project of the National Science Foundation, with many other U.S. agencies and NGOs cooperating.

All NEON data and information products will be freely available via the Web. NEON’s open-access approach to its data and information products will enable scientists, educators, planners, decision makers and the public to map, understand and predict the effects of human activities on ecology and effectively address critical ecological questions and issues.

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NEON: A Community-Driven Resource

The NEON concept was born in the ecological community and the design honed by thousands of dedicated people participating in workshops and reviews.  Read more about the community working to bring NEON to fruition.