Amy Jacobs is the Field Operations Manager for Domains 15 (Great Basin) and 12 (Northern Rockies) and is based in Salt Lake City, UT. Amy spent the early part of her career sailing throughout the Pacific Ocean and the Ross Sea (Antarctica) studying the effect of environmental stressors on marine bacterioplankton. She has also worked in the Mediterranean Sea, the Lakes of the Poconos, and the Gulf of Mexico.
Tristan Goulden leads the remote sensing team at NEON, which is responsible for the operation of the Airborne Observation Platform (AOP). In this role he manages the budget and scope associated with delivery of remote sensing data products derived from the AOP observations to support the goals of the NEON Observatory. He has contributed to the design of the AOP flight plans, development and execution of the automated workflows that produce the AOP data products, implementation of QAQC measures to ensure data product quality, and community outreach.
Keli Goodman is the Research Lead of the NEON Aquatics Team, which is comprised of the Aquatic Instrument System (AIS) and the Aquatic Observation System (AOS), designed to enable data users to detect long-term ecological change of aquatic ecosystems. The NEON Aquatics team conducts continental-scale monitoring of hydrology, biology, and chemistry, using continuously monitoring sensors in coordination with standardized observational sampling in streams, rivers, and lakes.
Matthew DeVoe is a United States Air Force veteran with 14 years of military and Department of Defense experience. His areas of expertise are tactical Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance exploitation, airborne lidar, full motion video, and Joint Terminal Attack Control operations.
Janae Csavina manages the Calibration, Validation, and Audit Laboratory (CVAL) for NEON. CVAL calibrates and validates sensors and data acquisition systems for the project and creates standards such as isotopic gas and water standards used in the Observatory. The lab coordinates audits for the external laboratories and participates in field audits to ensure quality in these activities. Janae’s role includes overseeing CVAL operations for schedule, quality system, personnel, budget, and continuous improvement.
Cameron Chapman received his B.S. in Geographic Information Science and his certificate in GIS from the University of North Alabama. Prior to joining NEON, Cameron worked as an Airborne Sensor Operator where he executed LiDAR mapping and surveying operations for utility, pipeline, telecommunication, highway and railway industries primarily from a helicopter platform. Cameron also brings a very robust remote sensing and GIS background to NEON. He has held positions such as GIS Coordinator for the U.S.
Dave Barnett has two primary roles with NEON; he is responsible for the spatial sampling design – the location of plots within sites – for the observation and collection of terrestrial organisms and soil, and he also oversees the plant diversity (plant presence and percent cover) data product.
Ed oversees the sensor-based soil plot measurements at NEON terrestrial sites. These measurements include, soil temperature, moisture, and CO2 concentration profiles, soil heat flux, and aboveground measurements made in the soil plots, such as throughfall and photosynthetically active radiation. Since 2010 Ed has been involved in designing NEON terrestrial site layouts, as well as soil sensor infrastructure design, sensor configuration, data product development, and data quality.
Andrea Anteau is the field operations manager for the Northern Plains - Domain 09. She has had a life-long passion for ecology has worked in ecological research and science education for almost 20 years. Along the way she has worked on marine plankton off the coast of Maine; climate change; brown bears, rainbow trout, colonial-nesting geese, and estuary marsh ecology in Alaska; coastal wetland ecology and biogeochemistry in Louisiana and Central America; desert soil microbial ecology in New Mexico; and wetland and amphibian ecology in North Dakota.
John Adler has utilized various platforms to conduct Earth Observations, including autonomous underwater vehicles, traditional and uncrewed aircraft, in situ towers, and satellites. His varied scientific operations have taken him to both the North and South Poles, and he has logged 85 hurricane eyewall penetrations. Previously, he worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as an aerial navigator and integrator of advance technology. He also has served in the U.S. Navy as an aerial navigator and satellite engineer. John obtained his Ph.D.
