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Data Notifications

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Data Notification

Rodent Pathogen Status, Tick-borne Data Available

September 9, 2021

The first set of tick-borne rodent pathogen data from the 5 pilot sites tested in 2020 are now available on the portal. Beginning in 2021, observatory-wide rodent pathogen testing will be for tick-borne pathogens, and data will be available through the rodent pathogen status, tick-borne data product. Prior to 2020, all of the rodent pathogen tests are for hantavirus and are available in the rodent pathogen status, hantavirus data product.

Data Notification

New version of neonUtilities (2.1.2)

September 7, 2021

neonUtilities 2.1.2 is now available on CRAN!

Data Notification

neonUtilities cheat sheet available

August 24, 2021

Cheat sheets provide a quick reference for functions, naming conventions, data formats, and other rules for using a code package. For new users of the package, we still recommend starting with the tutorials, but experienced users who need to check their function calls or look up details can get information quickly from the cheat sheet.

Data Notification

Occasional High Soil Moisture Values: Update

August 10, 2021

An interim solution is starting to be implemented at all terrestrial sites that is expected to increase soil water content (DP1.00094.001) data availability, but may result in a step change in the soil moisture time series until all data are reprocessed through a new data processing system.

Data Notification

New Guidelines for Publishing Research Outputs

August 9, 2021

Planning to publish your work based on NEON data, samples, or resources through the Assignable Assets program? We just published a new webpage with helpful tips and guidelines!

Data Notification

New Version of neonUtilities (2.1.1)

July 28, 2021

neonUtilities 2.1.1 is now available on CRAN! This new version fixes a small number of bugs, including the readr 2.0.0 incompatibility described in an earlier notification. Update is highly recommended.

Data Notification

readr 2.0.0 Conflicts with neonUtilities 2.1.0 and Earlier

July 21, 2021

Version 2.0.0 of the readr package was released July 20, 2021. This new version causes stackByTable() to error out in neonUtilities 2.1.0 and earlier. A new version of neonUtilities that resolves this issue will be released as soon as possible.

Data Notification

Fluctuations in Buoy Sonde Depth Data: Update 1

June 22, 2021

This is an update to the previous post concerning sonde depth data from the buoys, which are currently not corrected for barometric pressure effects.

Data Notification

Orientation Discrepancies in Lake Buoy Wind Direction Data: Update 3

June 15, 2021

Following the discovery that wind monitor orientation discrepancies were adversely affecting wind direction data in Wind speed and direction on lakes on-buoy, NEON has field-verified current wind monitor orientations at the buoy sites and updated the algorithm to account for the wind monitor orientation and approximate uncertainty atop the buoy mast.

Data Notification

New version of neonUtilities (2.1.0)

June 8, 2021

neonUtilities 2.1.0 is now available on CRAN! This new version adds new options for handling Release data, improves error messaging, and fixes bugs in flux footprints and microbe community composition. Update is highly recommended.

Data Notification

Delay in analysis of external lab surface water and groundwater nutrient data: Update 1

June 8, 2021

This is an update to the previous post concerning external lab surface water and groundwater nutrient data. Currently, sub-samples for nutrient analysis are being frozen and stored for future analysis with lower MDLs. The newly contracted external laboratory will begin receiving samples June 14, 2021 and all stored samples will be shipped by December 31, 2021. Data will be published approximately 90 days following sample receipt.

Data Notification

Macroinvertebrate and Zooplankton Metabarcoding Bioinformatics Data Discrepancies 2018, 2019

June 2, 2021

Macroinvertebrate metabarcoding (DP1.20126.001) and Zooplankton metabarcoding (DP1.20221.001) bioinformatics data in the tables inv_metabarcodeTaxonomy and zoo_metabarcodeTaxonomy tables are missing or have incorrectly labeled records for COI-F230 for samples collected in 2018 and 2019.

Data Notification

Surface water microbe cell count (DP1.20138.001) lab data corrections pending: Update

June 2, 2021

Surface water microbe cell count (DP1.20138.001) laboratory data for all aquatic sites from 9/2017 to 9/2020 were found to have incorrect calculations populating rawMicrobialAbundance data field. Data were recalculated, edited, and published to the data portal on April 5, 2021.

Data Notification

AOP Releases Analysis Ready Data to Investigate Scaling

April 22, 2021

Are you interested in investigating spatial and spectral relationships between high resolution airborne hyperspectral data and satellite observations? Learn more about our September 2020 data collection campaign at CPER in conjunction with Landsat7, Landsat8, and Sentinal 2A.

Data Notification

Duplicate Macroinvertebrate Collection (DP1.20120.001) Records

April 21, 2021

Macroinvertebrate collection (DP1.20120.001) field data in the table inv_fieldData for all aquatic sites from 2014 through 2019 are duplicated on the NEON data portal due to an error on data transition for this table. Corrections have been made, but will not appear on the portal until the 2022 data release.

Data Notification

Orientation Discrepancies in Lake Buoy Wind Direction Data: Update 2

March 17, 2021

This is an update to the previous post concerning wind direction data from the buoys. NEON has field-verified current wind monitor orientations at the buoy sites, and is taking multiple corrective measures.

Data Notification

New version of neonUtilities (2.0.1)

March 9, 2021

neonUtilities 2.0.1 is now available on CRAN! This new version resolves several bugs in the initial release of neonUtilities 2.0.0; update is highly recommended.

Data Notification

AIS Field Maintenance and Calibration Data Now Available for Provisional Data

February 26, 2021

AIS field maintenance and calibration data are now available for the following data products for provisional data (primarily data collected July 1st, 2020 and after). Read on to see which data products provide these tables.

Data Notification

Microbial Community Composition Data Products Reprocessed And Available

February 9, 2021

The NEON microbial community composition data products have been re-processed and are available on the NEON data portal either as provisional data (data from December 2014 and earlier) or in the initial NEON data release (data from 2015 through October 2018) that is available now.

Data Notification

Orientation Discrepancies in Lake Buoy Wind Direction Data: Update 1

February 4, 2021

This is an update to the previous post concerning wind direction data on the buoys. NEON has field-verified wind monitor orientation discrepancies at most buoy sites, which adversely affect wind direction data in Wind speed and direction on lakes on-buoy (DP1.20059.001). Buoy wind direction data will be corrected with measured offsets and/or quality flagged following further review over the next 6 months.

Data Notification

Updates to AOP’s Spectrometer Orthorectified at-Sensor Radiance data product

February 4, 2021

AOP has updated the file name, format and metadata for the Spectrometer Orthorectified at-sensor radiance data product (DP1.30008.001). The compression of the data has improved, and updates to end users' code may be needed.

Data Notification

Resolved: fDOM temperature and absorbance correction algorithm updates

January 29, 2021

Issues identified with fDOM temperature and absorbance data have been resolved. The correct fDOM data are available on the portal and were included in NEON's first data release.

Data Notification

Known Issues in neonUtilities 2.0.0

January 27, 2021

There are a few known code bugs in neonUtilities 2.0.0. A patch update resolving these bugs will be delivered in February, and workarounds for avoiding them are described here.

Data Notification

New version of neonUtilities (2.0.0)

January 26, 2021

neonUtilities 2.0.0 is now available on CRAN! This new version contains critical updates for working with the NEON Data Release and associated API and Portal changes. An update to 2.0.0 is required for working with any newly downloaded data.

Data Notification

Delay in analysis of external lab surface water and groundwater nutrient data

January 25, 2021

Based on an analysis of nutrient data, NEON has determined that the method detection limits (MDLs) required of the external laboratory for surface water and groundwater nutrient analyses are too high for many sites. New analyses of frozen samples will take place in the future.

Data Notification

Surface water microbe cell count (DP1.20138.001) lab data corrections pending

January 20, 2021

Surface water microbe cell count (DP1.20138.001) laboratory data for all aquatic sites from 9/2017 to 9/2020 were found to have incorrect calculations populating rawMicrobialAbundance data field. Data have been removed from the data portal while revisions are made and will be republished by February.

Data Notification

Plant and soil samples not re-dried prior to carbon/nitrogen analyses, impacts to data quality

January 19, 2021

Due to a miscommunication, samples analyzed for carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) concentrations and stable isotopes were not previously re-dried prior to weighing and analysis at the external laboratory. Affected data have been flagged and a new protocol was implemented.

Data Notification

Resolved: Surface water and groundwater elevation data improvements

January 14, 2021

To reduce uncertaintly in surface and groundwater elevation data, permanent benchmarks have been installed at most aquatic sites to serve as controlled location reference points. Updated elevations from the associated site resurveys are available on the data portal. Surface and groundwater elevation data products have been reprocessed, and, the corrected data will be available via the data portal by January 18, 2020.

Data Notification

New version of neonUtilities (1.3.9)

January 12, 2021

neonUtilities 1.3.9 is now available on CRAN. This update includes minor bug fixes.

Data Notification

Upcoming Error Corrections for Tick Data

December 21, 2020

We have discovered an error in the larval tick count data collected in 2016-2017 in Ticks sampled using drag cloths (DP1.10093.001) that affects all sites. Samples from the tick taxonomy laboratory had a count of 1 larva in the taxonomy table no matter how many individuals were present in the sample. The data will be rectified within 2-3 weeks.

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