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NASA's Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment

ABoVE

Timeline

  • 2016 2nd ABoVE Science Team Meeting: January 19th -21st
  • 2015 1st ABoVE Science Team Meeting: September 29- October 2
  • 2015 Late summer announcement of awards
  • 2015 Proposals Due: March 20, 2015
  • 2014 NASA solicits proposals for ABoVE December 9 [NASA ROSES Appendix A.4 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY]
  • 2014 Science Definition Team Disbanded July 2 [Thank you Letter from Diane Wickland]
  • 2014 Concise Experiment Plan released June 23
  • 2014 Concise Experiment Plan released for community comment until May 28
  • 2014 SDT Lanham, Maryland meeting, February 3-5
  • 2013 SDT Ottawa, Ontario Canada meeting, December 3-5
  • 2013 SDT Fairbanks, AK meeting, July 9-11
  • 2013 NASA TE NRA proposals due May 15 [link]
  • 2013 SDT meets in La Jolla, CA, May 2-3
  • 2013 5 Data projects selected from NASA TE NRA [Projects]
  • 2013 NASA TE NRA released February 14 [link]
  • 2013 SDT developing Concise Experiment Plan
  • 2013 The ABoVE Science Definition Team was announced on February 14
  • 2012 Call for Members of the Science Definition Team for the ABoVE Field Campaign December 14
  • 2012 NASA TE NRA call for data products due in 2012
  • 2012 Report of ABoVE Workshop with Revised Executive Summary [PDF] – June 13-15, Boulder, Colorado
  • 2012 Workshop held in Boulder, Colorado for community review and input. [Organizing Committee]
  • 2011 ABoVE selected for Field Campaign
  • 2011 Summary of Community-Submitted Comments on ABoVE Final Report available here. Comment period closed August 5.
  • 2011 (May) Eos article published. (2011), Scoping Completed for an Experiment to Assess Vulnerability of Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems, Eos Trans. AGU, 92(18), 150–151, doi:10.1029/2011EO180002. Copyright 2011 American Geophysical Union. Reproduced/modified by permission of American Geophysical Union. [PDF]
  • 2010 (Oct) Final Scoping Study Report: The Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE): A Concise Plan for a NASA-Sponsored Field Campaign -Authors: Eric S. Kasischke (University of Maryland), Scott J. Goetz (Woods Hole Research Institute), John S. Kimball (University of Montana), Michelle M. Mack (University of Florida) [PDF]
  • 2010 (Spring) Draft Scoping Sudy Report sent out to community for comments
  • 2009 (Aug) ABoVE Scoping Study conducted meeting in Fairbanks, AK
  • 2009 Two scoping studies were selected. ABoVE (Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment formerly known as VuRSAL (Vulnerability and Resiliency of Arctic and Sub-Arctic Landscapes) (abstract) and Tree-Grass Study (abstract) selected for 1 year.
  • 2008 NASA TE NRA — NASA’s Terrestrial Ecology Program solicited proposals in ROSES 2008 for scoping studies to identify the   scientific questions and develop the initial study design and implementation concept for possible future NASA field campaigns.
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