Tiger Teams
The NEON Project Office has been fortunate to receive valuable input from the ecological community through every step of the Observatory design process. Six teams of experts assisted NEON in its preparation for the Preliminary Design Review by closely reviewing key aspects of network design. The NEON “tiger teams,” and their chairs, are: Education (Charlene D’Avanzo, Hampshire College), Fundamental Sentinel Unit (Tom Hobbs, Colorado State University), Fundamental Instrument Unit (Hank Loescher, Oregon State University), Site Permitting (Thomas Jorling, NEON, Inc. Board Member), Airborne Observation Platform (Mike Lefsky, Colorado State University), and Land Use Analysis Package (Johannes Feddema, University of Kansas).
NEON anticipates that additional teams of experts will be formed in the near future to address emerging elements of Observatory design. In fact, a new team focused on developing a national NEON experiment is now in place, chaired by Dr. Melinda Smith, Yale University.
Land Use Analysis Package
Chair: Dr. Johannes Feddema, Kansas State University
Dr. David R. Foster, Harvard University
Dr. David D. Greenlee, EROS Data Center
Dr. Collin Homer, EROS Data Center
Dr. Anthony Janetos, The Heinz Center
Dr. K. Bruce Jones, EPA
Dr. Thomas R. Loveland, South Dakota State University
Dr. Berrien Moore, University of New Hampshire
Dr. Annette Schloss, University of New Hampshire
Dr. Jonathan H. Smith, EPA
Dr. June Thormodsgard, EROS Data Center
Dr. Dean Urban, Duke University
Fundamental Sentinel Unit
Chair: Dr. Tom Hobbs, Colorado State University
Dr. Jill Baron, Colorado State University
Dr. Marev Ben-David, University of Wyoming
Dr. Frank Davis, University of California at Santa Barbara
Dr. Andrew Hansen, Montana State University
Dr. William Lauenroth, Colorado State University
Dr. Richard Ostfeld, Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Dr. LeRoy Poff, Colorado State University
Dr. Robert Parmenter, University of New Mexico
Dr. Josh Schimel, University of California, Santa Barbara
Site Permitting
Chair: Thomas Jorling, VP International Paper (ret.)
James T. Banks, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, DC
Leslie Carothers, Environmental Law Institute
Airborne Observation Platform
Chair: Dr. Michael Lefsky, Colorado State University
Dr. Greg Asner, Stanford University
Dr. Peter Milne, NSF
Dr. Dar Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara
Fundamental Instrument Unit
Chair: Dr. Hank Loescher, Oregon State University
Dr. Joe Bartlett, University of Vermont
Dr. William “Breck” Bowden, University of Vermont
Dr. Bobby Braswell, University of New Hampshire
Dr. David Hollinger, USDA
Dr. Jonathan Martin, University of Florida
Dr. J. William Munger, Harvard University
Dr. Britton Stephens, NCAR
Education
Chair: Dr. Charlene D’Avanzo, Hampshire College
Dr. Sandra Henderson, UCAR
Dr. Karen Hollweg, National Research Council
Dr. Meg Lowman, New College
Dr. Dave Mogk, Montana State University
Dr. John Moore, Colorado State University
Dr. Larry Robinson, Florida A&M University
Dr. Jason Taylor, ESA
Dr. Ali Whitmer, Georgetown University
Experiment
Chair: Dr. Melinda Smith, Yale University
Dr. Serita Frey, University of New Hampshire
Dr. Kevin Griffin, Columbia University
Dr. Travis Huxman, University of Arizona
Dr. Anthony Joern, Kansas State University
Dr. Jack Morgan, USDA Agricultural Research Service
Dr. Richard Norby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Amilcare Porporato, Duke University
Dr. Jim Reichman, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Dr. Osvaldo Sala, Brown University
Dr. Richard Vollebreggt, Cravo