Request for Information

In October 2006, the NEON Project Office announced a Request for Information (RFI) inviting members of the ecological research community to submit ideas about how they would use NEON observational and cyberinfrastructure resources to address the science goals of the NEON Integrated Science and Education Plan (ISEP). The office received more than 60 responses from the ecological research community, including recommendations for research designs, experimental designs, and wildland sites where NEON observational resources could be deployed.

Submitted RFI Abstracts | Media | Documents | Resources

Submitted RFI Abstracts

Core Site | Research Proposal | Experiment | Other

Core Site Abstracts

• Domain 01: Interior Northeast Wildland Core Site Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest and Bartlett Experimental Forest

• Domain 01: Harvard Forest - Northeast Wildland Core

• Domain 02: Core Wildland and Satellite Gradient Sites for the Middle Atlantic Domain

• Domain 02: Virginia Coast Reserve - Core Wildland Site Description

• Domain 03: Core Wildland Site for the Southeast Region Domain

• Domain 04: Guanica Forest: The Atlantic Neotropical Core Site that Unites National, Domain, and Tropical Patterns in Global Change

• Domain 05: Notre Dame Environmental Research Center (UNDERC)/Trout Lake Station (TLS): Great Lakes Domain

• Domain 05: University of Michigan Biological Station as Core Wildland Site for the Great Lakes Domain

• Domain 05: Calumet Watershed - Great Lakes

• Domain 06: Konza Prairie Biological Station as Core Wildland Site for the Prairie Peninsula

• Domain 07: Core Wildland and Satellite/Gradient Sites for the Appalachians/Cumberland Plateau Domain

• Domain 08: University of Missouri’s Baskett Research and Education Area as the Core Wildland Site for the Ozarks Complex Domain

• Domain 08: Talladega National Forest (TAL) Core Wildland Site

• Domain 09: Northern Plains Core Wildland Site Selection - Alternative 2 Woodworth Field Station (Otte/Lin)

• Domain 09: Northern Plains Core Wildland Site Selection - Alternative 1 Central Grasslands Research Extension Center (Biondini/Lin)

• Domain 10: Central Plains Experimental Range as Core Wildland Site for the Central Plains Domain

• Domain 11: Core Wildland Site for the Southern Plains - Briske

• Domain 11: Core Wildland and Satellite Gradient Sites for the Southern Plains Domain - Hallgren

• Domain 12: Proposal submitted for the Northern Rocky Mountain Domain

• Domain 12: Southern Greater Yellowstone Area Represents the Rocky Mountain Domain

• Domain 12: Yellowstone Northern Range Core Wildland Site

• Domain 12: Priest River Experimental Forest, the Northern Rocky Mountain core wildland site

• Domain 12: Coram Experimental Forest

• Domain 12: Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest

• Domain 13: Southern Rocky Mountains-Colorado Plateau;

• Domain 13: Beaver Creek Experimental Watershed Proposed NEON Core Wildland Site

• Domain 14: Desert Southwest NEON RFI Core Site Submission

• Domain 14: Jornada Basin and Range Core Wildland Site Proposal

• Domain 14: Santa Rita Experimental Range as the Core Wildland Site for the Desert Southwest Domain

• Domain 15: Core Wildland Site for the Great Basin Domain

• Domain 16: Wind River Experimental Forest Core Wildland Site Pacific Northwest

• Domain 16: Nomination of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest as a NEON Core Wildland Site

• Domain 17: Pacific Southwest Ecological Observatory Network

• Domain 18: Core Wildland Site for the Tundra Domain at Toolik Lake, Alaska

• Domain 18: Asik Watershed in the Noatak National Preserve for NEON Tundra Domain

• Domain 19: Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed, Core Wildland Site, Taiga Domain

• Domain 20: Ala Wai Watershed Complex - Koolau Poko Watershed (Oahu Leeward-Windward Across-Island Transect)

• Domain 20: Laupahoehoe Forest of the Hawaii Experimental Tropical Forest: A Core Wildland Site for the Pacific Tropical NEON Domain

Research Proposal Abstracts

• Assessing Global Change Over Elevational Gradients in the Northeast Domain

• BAR SALT - Gradient Sites for the Great Basin Domain (Domain 15)

• Biodiversity changes through time and space on a continental scale

• CUAHSI Hydrologic Measurement Facility Partnership to Enhance NEON’s Hydrologic Observations and Experimentation

• Climate Change Inland Sites: Evaluating Ecosystem Responses to Warming, Drought, Snowpack Disappearance, and Changing Fire Regimes at Regional-to-Continental Scales

• Climate Coastal: Understanding and forecasting the effects of sea level rise and intense windstorms on coastal and upland ecosystems

• Continental-Scale Response by a consortium of aquatic ecologists, engineers, and information technology experts and endorsed by the Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON)

• Effects of Fragmentation on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function at Local to Continental Scales

• Gradient Sites for the Pacific Tropical Domain (Domain 20)

• Infrastructure, sites and measurements for assessing the impacts of changing climate and land use on ecosystems arrayed along precipitation, soil substrate age, and elevation gradients in the Pacific Tropical NEON Domain

• Integrating Airborne Hyperspectral and LiDAR Remote Sensing for Ecosystem Research and Monitoring in NEON

• Interactions among Environmental Change and Ecosystem Properties at the Small Watershed Scale - Coordinated Transcontinental Observation of Ecohydrology, Water Quality, Carbon Sequestration, and Change in Biodiversity at NEON/ LTER/ USDAFS/ ARS/ USGS/NPS

• Invasive Species: The Spread of Invasive Species and Infectious Disease as Drivers of Ecosystem Change Across Regional and Continental Gradients of Climate and Land Use

• Isotope Network of Ecological Warning Signals (INEWS)

• Isotopes in Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange

• Land Change: Ecosystem responses to urbanization and pollution across climatic and societal gradients

• Microbial Diversity and Ecosystem Functioning through Space and Time

• Multi-domain gradient of sites to examine long-term trends in the effects of N deposition on forested ecosystems in the eastern U.S.

• Observational Research Design for the Southeast Region Domain (Domain 3)

• Proposal to monitor ecosystem phenology via networked digital cameras (“webcams”) installed on NEON BioMesoNet Towers

• Remote Sensing and Spatial Data Acquisition for the NEON Network and Integrated Thematic Gradient Studies

• Research Design - Observational. Infrastructure, sites and measurements for assessing the impacts of changing climate and land use on ecosystems arrayed along precipitation, soil substrate age, and elevation gradients in the Pacific Tropical NEON Domain

• STREON: Stream observational network

• Satellite Derived Measures Of Terrestrial Primary Production, Evapotranspiration and Annual Landcover Disturbance Covering the entire NEON Domain.

• Science and Engineering Alliance Phosphorus Observational Network (SEAPON): Evaluating the Long Term Impact of Land Use/Cover and Climate Change on Phosphorous Dynamics

• Standardize Radiation Measurement at NEON Sites

• Susquehanna Watershed Gradient Study

• Synergy between changing natural and anthropogenic disturbance regimens and their effects on the biota and functioning of neotropical landscapes.

• Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Climate and Land Use at the regional scale, and Feedbacks to Future Climate

• Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Climate, Land Use, Hydrologic State, and Environmental Chemistry, and Feedbacks to Future Climate

• Tundra, Taiga, Pacific Northwest Climate Gradient Research in Alaska

Experiment Abstracts

• Experimental Study of Fire Return Cycles and Ecosystem Effects of Suppression Using SEEON Gradient Sites

• Global Change Experiment (GCE): Predicting the nature and pace of ecosystem responses to global change.

• Impacts and Interactions of Invasive Riparian Vegetation and Climate Change on Stream Ecosystem Processes

• Long- and short-term impacts of invasive species control on native moist forest ecosystems: Removal of feral ungulates and invasive plants

• NEON Herbivory Experiment - Grazing Exclosures

• NEON Multi-Site Global Change Experiment

• National Experiment on Tree Drought (NETD): Effect of Tree Drought Stress on Canopy Water and Carbon Fluxes, and Watershed Water Quantity and Quality

• STREON: Stream experimental and observational network A 10-year study of the resistance and resilience of aquatic ecosystems to global change

Other

• Biosphere 2 as a potential NEON headquarters site

• NSF/NEON Fellowships: Laying the foundation for sustaining leadership in NEON science

Media

The November 1 NEON RFI Webcast is now available. Follow the link to view the proceedings and listen to NEON Board Chair Jim MacMahon’s summary of how interested members of the ecological community can respond to the Request for Information—and contribute ideas that shape the final design of NEON. The Q & A session provides additional specifics to help respondents meet the January 5, 2007 deadline for submissions.

RFI Q&A Session and Webcast

Documents

RFI Version 1.0
RFI Template File Version 1.0
RFI Version 0.9 (Draft) (56 kB PDF) - last updated 17 October 2006
NSF Form 1030(doc; 76 kB)
NSF Form 1030(pdf; 20 kB)

Resources

Domain Map Sets - tif and ppt images of NEON domains with DEM and state boundaries (zip w/tif and ppt; 3.1 MB)
Maps overlaying digital elevation model and state outlines (pdf; 1.8 MB)
ESRI Shape file (zip; 370 kB)
ARC/INFO E00 Interchange (zip; 372 kB)