John Musinsky is responsible for designing NEON's airborne remote sensing flight campaigns. His work involves the analysis of satellite, airborne and near-surface remote sensing observations to map ecological communities and develop and validate models of seasonal and inter-annual phenology and meteorology. These data facilitate flight planning and the scheduling of three remote sensing payloads acquiring continental-scale ecological data from all terrestrial and aquatic sites in the NEON network.
Dr. Meier is a lead scientist for the NEON Terrestrial Observation System (TOS), and is primarily responsible for development, implementation, and data quality as related to NEON plant biomass and productivity sampling. He oversees protocols and data products related to plant below-ground root biomass, coarse downed wood, herbaceous biomass and productivity, leaf area index, and vegetation structure.
Bill is a Southern Appalachian native who spent most of his young life exploring the diverse ecosystem near his home range, thereby fostering an enduring passion for environmental and life science. He began his career at the Pantex nuclear weapons facility in Amarillo, Texas from 1993-1997 as an Environmental and Ecological Sampling- Analysis technician, concentrating his effort on environmental and ecological baseline assessments.
Hongyan Luo joined the NEON team in 2009 as lead Biometeorologist. Hongyan earned her B.A. in Forestry at Guangxi Agricultural University and an M.S. in Forestry (with an emphasis in Urban Forestry) at Beijing Forestry University in China. She worked at the Chinese Academy of Forestry for two years before heading to the U.S., where she earned her Ph.D through a Joint Doctoral Program in Ecology between UC Davis and San Diego State University.
Claire Lunch works at the interface between NEON science and cyberinfrastructure. She oversees the science needs of the data pipeline for observational data, ensuring that a standardized pipeline can accommodate the broad range of observational data NEON collects, and maintaining data transit through the pipeline over time. She also develops open-source code and instructional materials to assist the user community in working with NEON data.
Ty Lindberg is the Field Operations Manager for Domain 02, located in Front Royal, VA on the grounds of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. He is responsible for the maintenance and operation of three eddy-flux towers and soil arrays, two instrumented stream sites and year-round physical and organismal sampling at five field locations. His team consists of 6 full-time ecologists and up to 15 seasonal field-technicians.
Rachel has over eight years of experience in ecology and data management. She has a M.S. and B.S. from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut where she studied insect phylogenetics. She spent three years after graduation working seasonal field ecology jobs around the country utilizing different monitoring techniques in both terrestrial and aquatic communities. Her research interests are in insect ecology, primarily how native and invasive insect populations respond to climate and land use changes.
As part of the Airborne Observation Platform (AOP) team, Keith is responsible for the development and validation of algorithms to convert the raw airborne instrument data into science products with a primary focus on the waveform lidar instrument and products. He has 15+ years professional experience in satellite imaging, instrument calibration, image processing, and Earth remote sensing.
Katie is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Nation and a plant ecologist on the NEON Terrestrial Observation team. As the technical lead for plant phenology observations and litterfall production, she supports field collection protocols, data product development, and quality assurance for those data products and collaborates with other NEON scientists on additional plant productivity measurements.
