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National Ecological Observatory Network Description Use Cyberinfrastructure issues Slide 2 NEON Description Use Cyberinfrastructure issues Slide 3 What is NEON ? Continental-scale research platform transform ecological research enable ecological forecasting highly distributed NSFs MREFC Account Multi-year build-out phase 30-year life span 2-year design phase, $6M Slide 4 National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) NEON Slide 5 Re-defining NEON Slide 6 National Ecological Observatory Network (AIBS NEON Design Consortium) Senior Management Team (PI, Co-PIs, & Select Co-Is) Hayden, Baru, Brewer, Estrin, Franklin, Goldman, Krishtalka, MacMahon, Michener, Ostrom NEON Project Office & Contractors Consortium Development Committee Franklin & Levitt Education Committee Brewer & Huenneke GK-12 Training Subcommittee Cid & Diamond Undergraduate, Graduate, & Postgrad. Training Subcommittee Huenneke & Wyatt Informal Education Subcommittee Brewer & Stevenson Facilities & Infrastructure Committee Michener & Estrin IT & Communication Subcommittee Baru & Welge Research Infrastructure Subcommittee Swain & USDA rep Sensor & Sensor Networking Subcommittee Estrin & Hamilton NEON Advisory Board* Bartuska, Bierbaum, Fraser, Hooper, Huggett, Likens, Madia, Orcutt, Reitherman, Soberon, Winter, Vaughan Science & Human Dimensions Committee MacMahon & Ostrom Biodiversity Subcommittee Krishtalka & Gross Infectious Disease Subcommittee Collinge & Ostfeld Invasive Species Subcommittee Goldberg & Sakai Climate Change Subcommittee MacMahon & Peters Biogeochemical Cycles Subcommittee Nadelhoffer & Johnston Land Use Subcommittee Foster & Swanson Hydroecology Subcommittee Palmer & Mulholland Emerging Issues Subcommittee Reichman & Ruckelshaus National Network Design Committee Hayden & Michener Slide 7 NEON Description Use Cyberinfrastructure issues Slide 8 Black Sunday. April 14, 1935 Loss of life, reduced quality of life, and agricultural depression had economic and social ripples to other parts of the country. The Dust Bowl Slide 9 Abstraction of phenomena (Michener, 2000) Slide 10 NEON Use Science Education Policy- and decision-making Predicted Distribution: Amur snakehead (Channa argus) Slide 11 NEON Description Use Cyberinfrastructure issues Slide 12 Control, calibration and monitoring heterogeneous, distributed instrumentation single instruments & experiments CENS, ROADnet, SIO Cal IT 2 Celera Cyberinfrastructure for NEON must support: Slide 13 Data accessibility and rapid communication data, information and knowledge LambdaRail www.nlr.net Slide 14 Cyberinfrastructure for NEON must support: Data accessibility and rapid communication data, information and knowledge Slide 15 Cyberinfrastructure for NEON must support: Powerful data integration, management, analysis and visualization capabilities Slide 16 Cyberinfrastructure for NEON must support: A new science culture standardization & harmonization sharing effective collaboration Slide 17 7 Major CI Challenges + 1 1)Hardening of developing cyberinfrastructure 2)Bandwidth to the last mile 3)Metadata standards (sensors, arrays, etc.) 4)Smart sensor networks 5)Archives 6)Semantic mediation (structure, schema, syntax) 7)Usabilty of software and hardware What to throw away and what to keep ?