Bruce Hayden was a NEON Senior Advisor in 2007. He has previously served as Co–director for Science and Education of the NEON Project Office and a member of NEON’s Senior Management Team and National Network Design Committee. He has also served as principal investigator of the NSF-funded LTER site on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, studying interactions of wind, water, and shoreline and long-term changes in climate and vegetation on several barrier islands off the Virginia coast. He currently divides his time between AIBS headquarters in Washington, DC, and the University of Virginia, where he is a professor of Environmental Science.