Moab NEON - United States of America

Basic Information
Site Name
Moab NEON
Short name
MOAB
Country
United States of America
Site Manager
Site Description
The Moab Canyonlands Ecological Research site (MOAB) is a relocatable terrestrial site within NEON's Domain 13: Southern Rockies and Colorado Plateau. The MOAB site is located approximately 40 km south of the town of Moab and is characteristic of the Colorado Plateau. MOAB was selected with other sites that share a similar latitude in domains 10, 13, and 15, to assess dust generation, nutrient transport, and nutrient deposition. The western half of the site, including the tower airshed, is a grazed shrub land, often with pockets of barren soil. To the east, in the higher elevations, evergreen forests sit atop the mesas. Biological soil crust, dominated by cyanobacteria, is a living groundcover across the area. Remote sensing surveys of this field site collect lidar, spectrometer and high-resolution RGB camera data. The flux/meteorological tower at this site is 26’ with 4 measurement levels.The tower top extends above the vegetation canopy to allow sensors mounted at the top and along the tower to capture the full profile of atmospheric conditions from the top of the vegetation canopy to the ground. The tower collects physical and chemical properties of atmosphere-related processes, such as humidity, wind, and net ecosystem gas exchange. Precipitation data are collected by a tipping bucket at the top of the tower and a series of throughfalls located in the soil array. This site has five soil plots placed in an array within the airshed of the flux tower. Field ecologists collect the following types of observational data at this site: Terrestrial organisms (birds, ground beetles, mosquitoes, plants, small mammals, soil microbes, ticks), Biogeochemical data, and and soil data.Total data products planned for this site: 113
Last modified
2021-03-03 11:03:02

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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
2015
Observed properties
Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
GERIThis site is a verified "GERI" member.
NEON (MOAB)This site is a verified "NEON" member.
Photos
Sunrise from the tower
Sunrise from the tower
Moab
Moab
Geographic
Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: 38.2433 Longitude: -109.38827

Size
ca. 5043.00ha
Elevation (average)
1767.00msl
Elevation (min)
1722.00msl
Elevation (max)
2039.00msl
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