// Gallery data — images organized by field site const GALLERY_IMAGES = [ // Coastal North Carolina — Ghost Forest { id: "img-nc-01", siteId: "fs-01", siteName: "Coastal North Carolina — Ghost Forest", title: "Saltwater intrusion impact", url: "images/field-sites/nc-ghost-forest-03.jpg", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/nc-ghost-forest-03.jpg", caption: "Saltwater Intrusion Impact — dead trees amid rubble on the eroding shoreline of coastal North Carolina, a striking example of ghost forest formation driven by sea-level rise and saltwater intrusion.", }, // Harvard Forest { id: "img-hf-01", siteId: "fs-02", siteName: "Harvard Forest — Temperate Deciduous", title: "Fish eye view of the Harvard Forest Barn Tower", url: "images/field-sites/DSC_0086.jpg", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/DSC_0086.jpg", caption: "Fish eye view of the Harvard Forest Barn Tower where Xi's SIF instrument was installed during 2012–2014, providing one of the first ground-based continuous observations of SIF. Photo credit: Marc Mayes.", }, { id: "img-hf-02", siteId: "fs-02", siteName: "Harvard Forest — Temperate Deciduous", title: "View from the top of the Harvard Forest Walkup Tower", url: "uploads/HF_tower.webp", thumbnail: "uploads/HF_tower.webp", caption: "On the top of the Harvard Forest Walkup tower you can see the landscape that has been one of the centers of global change research — eddy covariance, soil warming experiment, ForestGEO plot etc.", }, { id: "img-hf-03", siteId: "fs-02", siteName: "Harvard Forest — Temperate Deciduous", title: "Tree mortality (most pine trees) in Harvard Forest", url: "uploads/HF_deadtree.webp", thumbnail: "uploads/HF_deadtree.webp", caption: "Looking up through the canopy at Harvard Forest — bare, leafless pine snags rise among living hardwoods, documenting the ongoing pine mortality that is reshaping the composition of this iconic temperate forest.", }, // BART { id: "img-bart-03", siteId: "fs-03", siteName: "Bartlett Experimental Forest (BART)", title: "Henry Yeung and Zejun Wu conducting TLS scans", url: "uploads/HenryZejun.webp", thumbnail: "uploads/HenryZejun.webp", caption: "Graduate students Henry Yeung and Zejun Wu conducting TLS scans at Bartlett Experimental Forest.", }, { id: "img-bart-02", siteId: "fs-03", siteName: "Bartlett Experimental Forest (BART)", title: "Team photobombs the NEON phenocam", url: "uploads/BART_photobomb.webp", thumbnail: "uploads/BART_photobomb.webp", caption: "Our team photobombed the NEON phenocam while we were conducting TLS scans in 2025.", }, // SERC { id: "img-serc-01", siteId: "fs-04", siteName: "Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)", title: "A butterfly operator of our TLS scanner", url: "uploads/SERC_TLS_butterfly.webp", thumbnail: "uploads/SERC_TLS_butterfly.webp", caption: "A butterfly operator of our TLS scanner at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC). Photo credit: Elsie Liu.", }, // NEON Blandy (BLAN) { id: "img-blan-01", siteId: "fs-blan", siteName: "NEON Blandy (BLAN)", title: "Team fieldwork at Blandy Experimental Farm", url: "uploads/blandy_tls.webp", thumbnail: "uploads/blandy_tls.webp", caption: "Our team (Elsie Liu, Zejun Wu, Yiting Fan, and Wayne Dawson) doing fieldwork at Blandy Experimental Farm.", }, // UVA Charlottesville { id: "img-uva-01", siteId: "fs-06", siteName: "University of Virginia — Charlottesville", title: "Graduate students Rong Li and Andrew Jablonski measuring leaf photosynthesis", url: "uploads/RongandAndrew.webp", thumbnail: "uploads/RongandAndrew.webp", caption: "Graduate students Rong Li and Andrew Jablonski measuring leaf photosynthesis on UVA campus.", }, { id: "img-ak-02", siteId: "fs-07", siteName: "Caribou-Poker Creeks — Alaska Arctic (NEON BONA)", title: "Team trip to Denali on July 4th", url: "uploads/NSFAlaska.webp", thumbnail: "uploads/NSFAlaska.webp", caption: "The team took a trip to Denali on July 4th during our field campaign.", }, { id: "img-ak-03", siteId: "fs-07", siteName: "Caribou-Poker Creeks — Alaska Arctic (NEON BONA)", title: "Deciduous stand at BONA with instrument mast", url: "uploads/DeciduousMastFallTop.webp", thumbnail: "uploads/DeciduousMastFallTop.webp", caption: "Deciduous stand at BONA and our instrument installed on the top of a mast.", }, { id: "img-ak-01", siteId: "fs-07", siteName: "Caribou-Poker Creeks — Alaska Arctic (NEON BONA)", title: "NSF-funded fieldwork at the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed", url: "images/field-sites/IMG_6247.JPG", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/IMG_6247.JPG", caption: "Lab team at the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed, Alaska, during NSF-funded fieldwork.", }, // Puerto Rico { id: "img-pr-03", siteId: "fs-08", siteName: "El Yunque — Puerto Rico (MACROCOSM)", title: "TLS field campaign", url: "images/field-sites/puerto-rico-03.jpg", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/puerto-rico-03.jpg", caption: "TLS field campaign — team hiking through the dense tropical rainforest of El Yunque, Puerto Rico, carrying equipment for terrestrial LiDAR scanning.", }, { id: "img-pr-04", siteId: "fs-08", siteName: "El Yunque — Puerto Rico (MACROCOSM)", title: "Lizard in the rainforest", url: "uploads/ElYunque_1.webp", thumbnail: "uploads/ElYunque_1.webp", caption: "Postdoc Yiting Fan captured this moment while doing fieldwork in the rainforest.", }, // Coastal Louisiana — LUMCON { id: "img-la-01", siteId: "fs-09", siteName: "Coastal Louisiana — LUMCON Ghost Forest", title: "Ghost forest near Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium", url: "images/field-sites/IMG_4922.jpg", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/IMG_4922.jpg", caption: "Dead trees rising from the marsh near LUMCON, coastal Louisiana — a ghost forest driven by sea-level rise and saltwater intrusion.", }, // Blackwater Wildlife Refuge — Maryland { id: "img-md-01", siteId: "fs-10", siteName: "Blackwater Wildlife Refuge — Coastal Maryland", title: "Ghost forest near coastal Maryland", url: "images/field-sites/IMG_3278_2.JPG", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/IMG_3278_2.JPG", caption: "Ghost forest at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland — dead trees at the forest-marsh transition driven by sea-level rise.", }, { id: "img-md-02", siteId: "fs-10", siteName: "Blackwater Wildlife Refuge — Coastal Maryland", title: "Ghost forest near coastal Maryland", url: "images/field-sites/IMG_3279_2.JPG", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/IMG_3279_2.JPG", caption: "Lone dead tree standing in the marsh at Blackwater NWR, with a backdrop of ghost forest stretching across the coastal plain. Photo credit: Henry Yeung.", }, // UVA Pace Tower — Virginia { id: "img-pace-01", siteId: "fs-11", siteName: "UVA Pace Tower — Virginia", title: "Xi and undergrad lab member Levi Helm working on the top of the Pace tower above the canopy", url: "images/field-sites/DJI_0062.JPG", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/DJI_0062.JPG", caption: "Drone photo of Xi Yang and undergraduate Levi Helm working atop the UVA Pace Tower above the forest canopy, Virginia.", }, // UVA Pace Tower — cloudy day panorama { id: "img-pace-03", siteId: "fs-11", siteName: "UVA Pace Tower — Virginia", title: "A cloudy day. Enjoy our time on the top of the Pace tower", url: "images/field-sites/IMG_2046.JPG", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/IMG_2046.JPG", caption: "Panoramic view from the top of the UVA Pace Tower on a cloudy autumn day — early fall colors dotting the forest canopy, with the Blue Ridge Mountains visible on the horizon.", }, // UVA Pace Tower — bird's eye view { id: "img-pace-02", siteId: "fs-11", siteName: "UVA Pace Tower — Virginia", title: "Bird's eye view of the tower and the forest", url: "images/field-sites/IMG_1867.jpg", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/IMG_1867.jpg", caption: "Aerial drone view looking straight down at the UVA Pace Tower, nearly hidden within the dense summer canopy of the Virginia forest.", }, // Amazon Forest — Manaus, Brazil { id: "img-amz-01", siteId: "fs-12", siteName: "Amazon Forest — Manaus, Brazil (GOAmazon)", title: "Sunrise in the tropics!", url: "images/field-sites/DSC_0145.jpg", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/DSC_0145.jpg", caption: "Sunrise over the Amazon rainforest canopy near Manaus, Brazil. Taken during the DOE-funded GOAmazon field trip in 2014.", }, // Toolik Station — Alaska Arctic { id: "img-toolik-01", siteId: "fs-14", siteName: "Toolik Station (68° 38′ N, 149° 36′ W)", title: "Cottongrass (Eriophorum) at Toolik Station, Alaska", url: "images/field-sites/DSC_0396.JPG", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/DSC_0396.JPG", caption: "Part of our NASA funded project is to install a SIF instrument in the arctic tundra region. Our team visited Toolik in 2017. The plant in the foreground is Cottongrass (genus Eriophorum).", }, // Toolik Station — panoramic landscape { id: "img-toolik-07", siteId: "fs-14", siteName: "Toolik Station (68° 38′ N, 149° 36′ W)", title: "Beautiful arctic tundra landscape", url: "images/field-sites/IMG_1732.JPG", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/IMG_1732.JPG", caption: "A sweeping panoramic view of the arctic tundra near Toolik Station, Alaska — lush green tundra in the foreground, a braided river valley, Toolik Lake, and the snow-capped Brooks Range stretching across the horizon.", }, // Toolik Station — flux tower with mosquito { id: "img-toolik-06", siteId: "fs-14", siteName: "Toolik Station (68° 38′ N, 149° 36′ W)", title: "Mosquitoes are always present in photos taken in the arctic tundra", url: "images/field-sites/IMG_1696.JPG", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/IMG_1696.JPG", caption: "The tundra flux tower and SIF instrument setup at Toolik Station — with a mosquito photobombing the shot. Mosquitoes are an ever-present companion during summer fieldwork in the arctic tundra.", }, // Toolik Station — Yi Yin photosynthesis measurement { id: "img-toolik-05", siteId: "fs-14", siteName: "Toolik Station (68° 38′ N, 149° 36′ W)", title: "Collaborator Yi Yin (NYU) measuring photosynthesis", url: "images/field-sites/IMG_1690.jpeg", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/IMG_1690.jpeg", caption: "Collaborator Yi Yin (NYU) measuring photosynthesis of tundra shrubs using a leaf gas exchange instrument at Toolik Station, Alaska.", }, // Toolik Station — SIF instrument installation { id: "img-toolik-04", siteId: "fs-14", siteName: "Toolik Station (68° 38′ N, 149° 36′ W)", title: "Installing the SIF instrument at the tundra flux tower", url: "images/field-sites/GOPR0724.jpg", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/GOPR0724.jpg", caption: "Undergraduate student Levi Helm installing the SIF instrument at Eugenie Euskirchen's tundra flux tower site near Toolik Station, Alaska.", }, // Toolik Station — Alaska Arctic (cottongrass hillside) { id: "img-toolik-03", siteId: "fs-14", siteName: "Toolik Station (68° 38′ N, 149° 36′ W)", title: "Alaska tundra landscape", url: "images/field-sites/DSC_0518.jpg", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/DSC_0518.jpg", caption: "Cottongrass (Eriophorum) blanketing the arctic tundra hillside near Toolik Station, Alaska, backlit by the summer sun.", }, // Toolik Station — Alaska Arctic (landscape) { id: "img-toolik-02", siteId: "fs-14", siteName: "Toolik Station (68° 38′ N, 149° 36′ W)", title: "Alaska tundra landscape", url: "images/field-sites/DSC_0445.jpg", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/DSC_0445.jpg", caption: "Alaska tundra landscape near Toolik Station, viewed from an elevated vantage point overlooking the Atigun River valley and the Brooks Range.", }, // VCR LTER — Virginia Coast Reserve { id: "img-vcr-01", siteId: "fs-15", siteName: "VCR LTER — Virginia Coast Reserve", title: "Eddy covariance tower at a salt marsh", url: "images/field-sites/IMG_1059.JPG", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/IMG_1059.JPG", caption: "Eddy covariance measurements at a salt marsh site in Virginia (37.411033, -75.833204), part of the Virginia Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological Research network.", }, { id: "img-vcr-02", siteId: "fs-15", siteName: "VCR LTER — Virginia Coast Reserve", title: "Fowling Point tower and solar panel array", url: "images/field-sites/IMG_1062.JPG", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/IMG_1062.JPG", caption: "The Fowling Point tower is supported by a solar panel array, standing amid the expansive salt marsh at the Virginia Coast Reserve LTER site (37.411033, -75.833204).", }, // Howland Forest — Maine { id: "img-howland-01", siteId: "fs-17", siteName: "Howland Forest — Maine", title: "A view from the top of the Howland Forest tower", url: "images/field-sites/IMG_3243.jpg", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/IMG_3243.jpg", caption: "A view from the top of the Howland Forest tower, Maine — a sweeping panorama over the boreal mixed forest canopy beneath a clear blue sky.", }, // Sevilleta LTER — New Mexico { id: "img-sev-01", siteId: "fs-16", siteName: "Sevilleta LTER — New Mexico", title: "Installing instrument at Marcy Litvak's flux tower site", url: "images/field-sites/IMG_2316.JPG", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/IMG_2316.JPG", caption: "Installing instrument at the Sevilleta LTER site at Marcy Litvak's flux tower site, New Mexico.", }, // La Selva Biological Station — Costa Rica { id: "img-laselva-01", siteId: "fs-18", siteName: "La Selva Biological Station — Costa Rica", title: "Viewing the tropical forest from the top of a research tower", url: "images/field-sites/IMG_3277.jpg", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/IMG_3277.jpg", caption: "Panoramic view from atop the research tower at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica — the dense lowland tropical rainforest canopy stretches to the foothills of the Cordillera Central under a clear blue sky.", }, // Tanguro Farm — Mato Grosso, Brazil { id: "img-tang-01", siteId: "fs-13", siteName: "Tanguro Farm — Mato Grosso, Brazil (13.08°S, 52.41°W)", title: "Owls at Tanguro Farm before departure", url: "images/field-sites/DSC_0206.jpg", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/DSC_0206.jpg", caption: "Xi visited Tanguro Farm as part of the DOE-GoAmazon project with Joe Berry, Ari Kornfeld, and Gene Robinson, and the team met with colleagues who have been working there for a long time, including Paulo Brando and Sue Trumbore. Xi took this photo at the farm before departure.", }, { id: "img-tang-02", siteId: "fs-13", siteName: "Tanguro Farm — Mato Grosso, Brazil (13.08°S, 52.41°W)", title: "Tanguro's research tower", url: "images/field-sites/DSC_0402.jpg", thumbnail: "images/field-sites/DSC_0402.jpg", caption: "Looking up Tanguro Farm's research tower, Mato Grosso, Brazil.", }, ]; Object.assign(window, { GALLERY_IMAGES });