Eric Sokol is a quantitative ecologist on the Data Products team at NEON, and works primarily with data that relate to organisms, populations, and communities. He also contributes the development of open source code to access and use NEON data.
Sam is a member of the Terrestrial Observation System (TOS) team. His variety of roles include improving data availability and quality of all terrestrial data products, performing statistical analyses to optimize the sampling design of ecosystem productivity data products, serving on the Breeding Landbird Technical Working Group, and maintaining the protocol for the coarse downed wood data product.
As Flight Operations Manager, Nick Marusich is responsible for managing the execution of the airborne observation platform’s annual data collection and approved PI-directed flights. Nick received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and spent 23 years serving in the Navy as a Naval Flight Officer completing operations in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He also holds a M.S. in Defense Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada and a M.S. in Social Sciences from the University of Haifa, Israel.
Nick is the surface water hydrologist and geomorphologist at NEON with a background in hydrometry, fluvial morphodynamics, and watershed management. Past research include evaluating land management impacts to sediment delivery at the watershed scale in northern California, quantifying erosive response in forest fuel treatments in the Lake Tahoe Basin and assessing water quality sensor deployment design in freshwater monitoring stations at the continental scale.
Nora is a hydrogeologist with experience in numerical modeling, environmental compliance, and watershed management. She received her B.A. from Macalester College in Geology and her M.S. from the University of Colorado in Geology and Hydrologic Sciences with an emphasis on groundwater modeling. Nora has worked in both government and private industry on a multitude of projects relating to water quality, sustainable energy, habitat assessment, and environmental conservation.
In his current role, Chris is the operations manager for NEON. Prior to this role, Chris was the Director of the Infrastructure Group for Battelle’s Research Infrastructure business line supporting NEON and business development activities at the Boulder office.
Dr. Weintraub-Leff is the lead Biogeochemist for the Terrestrial Observation System (TOS). She directly oversees collection protocols and data quality for soil and plant foliage sampling and collaborates with other NEON scientists on litterfall and fine root sampling and data. She is the technical lead for NEON data products that measure soil and vegetation chemistry and stable isotopes as well as soil nitrogen transformations.
Christopher is the Field Operations Manager for two NEON Domains: D18 (Arctic Tundra) and D19 (Boreal Forest, or ‘Taiga’), both of which are supported from the Domain Facility in Fairbanks, Alaska. Christopher comes to NEON after having worked for a variety of State, Federal, and private research institutions in both the United States and Canada. He received his B.S. (2007) from UBC in British Columbia, Canada, and his M.S. (2013) in Biology from Queen’s University, in Kingston, Ontario.
Kaelin has a background in dissolved organic matter biogeochemistry in freshwater and coastal environments. Past studies have used fluorescence and absorbance spectroscopy of water samples to better understand photo-chemical and biological transformations of organic matter in a freshwater estuary of the Great Lakes, Antarctic coastal ponds, the Gulf of Maine, the Florida Everglades, the Okavango Delta in Botswana, and drinking water sources in Colorado.
Cove leads the monitoring, management, and communication of science data quality from NEON’s terrestrial instrument system. He works with NEON’s Science and Cyberinfrastructure teams to implement new quality control algorithms and address data quality issues throughout the data processing pipeline. Contact Cove for more information about quality assurance and control of NEON’s instrumented systems data.
