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Attending the ESA annual meeting this August? Submit your application for the inaugural "Best NEON Presentation Award" if your talk highlights research that includes NEON data, samples, or infrastructure.
Also, be sure to pre-register for the NEON field trip and short courses on ecological data synthesis, working with continental-scale biodiversity data using the ecocomDP R package, and using NEON and NASA airborne and field datasets through live-coding exercises using Python Jupyter Notebooks. Pre-register for Short Course 3, Short Course 12, Short Course 16, or Field Trip 5 when registering for ESA 2025. Learn more about all of the NEON-led events happening at ESA on the event's page.
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