NGEE field test sites near Council, Alaska, approximately 80 miles from Nome.Location photos of potential field sites as well as photos of Nome and Council, Alaska and community meetings with representatives of Nome.The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) project will use experiments, observations, and process models to quantify the response of physical, ecological, and biogeochemical processes to atmospheric and climatic change across molecular to landscape scales. A multi-disciplinary team will focus on interactions that drive ecosystem-climate feedbacks through greenhouse gas fluxes and changes in surface energy balance.