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Data Notifications

Data Notification

Incorrect Depths Associated with Lake and River Temperature Profiles

February 11, 2022

Provisional and RELEASE-2022 data for Temperature at specific depth in surface water (DP1.20264.001) contains incorrect sensorDepth values at BARC and

Data Notification

Delay in external lab particulate carbon and nitrogen data

February 7, 2022

Delay in external lab particulate carbon and nitrogen data: Affects the Periphyton, seston, and phytoplankton chemical properties, Stable isotopes in surface water, and Chemical properties of surface water data products.

Data Notification

Improved automated quality flags for Relative humidity above water on-buoy (DP1.20271)

February 7, 2022

NEON recently discovered that the Relative humidity above water on-buoy (DP1.20271.001) data product had been over-flagged with the automated step test. NEON has adjusted the step test threshold and re-processed the data product for all time and all sites where it is produced.

Data Notification

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

February 3, 2022

This is an update to the previous post concerning external lab surface water and groundwater nutrient data. All backlog samples have been shipped and

Data Notification

Corrections to 2D wind speed and direction product (DP1.00001.001)

January 28, 2022

Corrections were made to 2D wind speed and direction statistics in RELEASE-2022 and provisional data. Additional corrections to the quality metrics for this product are pending.

Data Notification

Data Release 2022 is out now!

January 27, 2022

NEON's second data release [RELEASE-2022] is now available for download. Note that there are some open issues with AOP data that are being investigated.

Data Notification

Planned Data Availability Timeline for Continuous Discharge (DP4.00130.001)

January 26, 2022

Would you like to know when Continuous discharge (DP4.00130.001) will be available for a site? We regularly update this blog with new information.

Data Notification

Updates to Water Quality (DP1.20288) have been completed

January 18, 2022

Based on recommendations from our Aquatics Technical Working Group (TWG) and feedback from data users, we have made several updates to the Water quality (DP1.20288.001) data product.

Data Notification

Bundling Terrestrial Plant Vegetation Structure Data Products

December 21, 2021

To improve data product usability, we have repackaged a couple data products to deliver field data for both woody and non-woody plant measurements all

Data Notification

New version of neonUtilities (2.1.3)

December 13, 2021

neonUtilities 2.1.3 is now available on CRAN!

Data Notification

Bundling Aquatic Sediment Chemical and Physical Properties Data Products

December 6, 2021

In order to improve data product usability, we have repackaged two data products to deliver all analyses for sediment chemical and physical properties all in one download.

Data Notification

Changes to AOP Data Product Catalog

November 29, 2021

Following the data notification published on November 17, 2020, NEON suspended production of the Canopy Nitrogen, Canopy Xanthophyll, Canopy Lignin and Total biomass data products, and removed already published data products from the NEON data portal.

Data Notification

Pause in publication of Water Quality (DP1.20288) while changes are made

September 16, 2021

NEON is committed to improving the quality of data we provide to the user community. After receiving feedback from users, and in consultation with the Aquatic Technical Working Group, we are moving forward with changes to the Water quality (DP1.20288.001) data product.

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.

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