A Few Threads of Continuity Within an Ecological Research Career
William W. Hargrove
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
IALE World Congress II IALE World Congress III Previous Winner II World-Wide What? Stone Soup ORNL's First Beowulf: The Stone SouperComputer Stone SouperComputer - Fall 1997 Stone SouperComputer - January 1998 Stone SouperComputer - October 1998 Stone SouperComputer - May 1999 Clusters as Galaxies in Data Space Dynamic Load Balancing - The "Card Game" Fault Tolerance The Switch That Started It All System Performance (naliquot=1280) The Do-It-Yourself Supercomputer Fractal Landscape Realizer IALE Best Paper Award Quantitative Ecoregions Multivariate Geographic Clustering (MGC) Custom Ecoregions of Tennessee Example Data in Two-Dimensional Data Space Cluster Radii for a Level of Division of 30 Variance is Kept Roughly Constant Selected Multivariate Characteristics The 100 Most-Different Ecoregions The 1000 Most-Different Ecoregions Quote Make Your Own Ecoregions Kit! The Representativeness Concept Quantifying "Smoky Mountains-ness" Quantifying "Everglades-ness" Quantifying "Flint Hills-ness" Quantifying "Black Hills-ness" Quantifying "Ivory-Billed-ness" Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering (MSTC) The Future in Terms of the Present The 80 Most-Different Hargrove/Hoffman Global Climate Ecoregions Global Phenology Ecoregions ORNL-TNC Global Ecoregions Pre-Stratification as a Sampling Strategy Analysis of Sites in a Network Quantifying LTER Network Coverage Importance Values Intro AmeriFlux Site Representativeness Importance Using Series III Flux Ecoregions Sorted AmeriFlux Site Representativeness Importance Values Using 90 IIIA Flux Ecoregions Importance Conclusions Introduction to NEON NEON Summary National Network Design Committee NEON Implementation Climatic "State" Variables Initial 25 Cluster Map - Random Colors Initial 25 Cluster Map - Similarity Colors Identifying and Combining Subregions Coarsening Resolution Running a Majority Filter to De-Speckle Vectorizing the Boundaries Dropping Islands Additional Borders Added Climatic Complexes from Wind Vectors NEON Domain Borders Over Generalized Map NEON Domain Borders Over Original 25 Cluster Map Map of NEON Domains Measuring Representativeness Within a Region Within-Domain Representativeness Zoomed Within-Domain Representativeness The First Statistically Designed Network Alternative Siting Techniques for Networks Geobabble Web Site Pan, Zoom, Scroll Web Tool What's Ahead? Active and Upcoming Projects A Shared Award Rebecca and Sam Rebecca and Sam II Grandparents and Sam Every Conceivable Situation Shaken, Not Stirred Forrest with Wires Hokusai's Great Wave of Kanagawa Revisited DAC Crossley Philosophy Things That I Think I've Figured Out Thank You!