Boulder Hosts Concurrent NEON Meetings

On August 13-14, the NEON Experiment “tiger team,” chaired by Dr. Melinda Smith (Yale University), will meet in Boulder, Colorado. The group will design an experiment based on two Global Change Experiments submitted in response to the NEON Request for Information. It will also propose objective criteria for deploying a nationwide experiment.

Concurrently, on August 13-15, the NEON FIU tiger team will reconvene to further develop the detailed sensor and tower layouts for two NEON domains. The group will focus on the Southern Rockies-Colorado Plateau site at Niwot Ridge and the Central Plains site at the Central Plains Experimental Range in Colorado. Dr. Hank Loescher (Oregon State University) will run the meeting, which will be chaired by the NEON Director of Science. The goal of the FIU team is to refine the number of measurements needed and the number, type, and placement of sensors. Details of both meetings will be posted at www.neoninc.org as they become available.

Posted by djohnson on Thursday August 2, at 11AM.