Join Roland Kays, North Carolina State University and Arielle Parsons, Lincoln Park Zoo on Jan 10, 2023 for their talk: "NEON mammals large and small" The goal of the NEON monthly science seminar series is to build community among researchers at the intersection of ecology, environmental science, and NEON. Specifically, presentations will: Highlight new findings and frontiers of ecology and NEON science Build a diverse and inclusive researcher community Showcase and catalyze partnerships Amplify resources and tools that enable cross-scale ecological research All talks are 12-1 pm MT. Find the...
This is an in-person workshop at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology conference in Austin, TX. Join Sara Paull for a 1.5hr workshop on January 5, 2023 at SICB: Accessing and Working with NEON Small Mammal Data View the SICB program here Workshop Description This workshop will provide an introduction to discovering, accessing and preparing NEON data using R. The workshop will include an introduction to the NEON program and data collection procedures followed by a guided data access tutorial for the small mammal dataset. NEON provides a diversity of open access ecological data...
Students and Educators! You are invited to join Future Engineers, and Battelle for a live virtual chat with climate expert Mike SanClements the Research Initiatives Lead at Battelle-National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). Learn about climate change, climate resilience, and the new Battelle Climate Challenge open to 9-12th grade students in the U.S. Bring your curiosity and questions and participate in a Q&A! We recommend that students individually RSVP, but educators are also welcome to display the webinar to their entire class. To learn more about the Battelle Climate Challenge, visit...
We're excited to join you at this year's American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, which will be held both in person in Chicago, IL and online. There will be several NEON-related sessions, talks, and other events at AGU 2022. Please continue to check this space with more updates. Visit the conference website here, and view the full program here. NEON Staff Authored/Coauthored/Organized Events at AGU As events are rescheduled to the online platform and more NEON-related events are announced we will update this list. This list was last updated on December 1, 2022. All times are Central...
In this private online workshop, NEON scientists will lead participants through the NEON data portal and teach them how to access and work with NEON data in R. This is a closed workshop for graduate students participating in the Graduate Student Seminar Series at the Jornada LTER.
A Fall meeting will be held at Haskell Indian Nations University as a follow up from the Sensing The Earth: Tribal Climate Science Partnership Summit held June 15-17, 2022 in Boulder, CO. TCU Faculty will have funding to support in-person attendance and will gain hands-on experience with LiDAR, accessing local climate and geospatial data, and more and also contribute to strategy sessions to identify pathways for continued faculty training, resources for climate resilience, and revitalizing the Indigenous Peoples’ Climate Change Working Group (IPCCWG) and more. The latest iteration of the Red...
Join Theresa Crimmins and Alyssa Rosemartin on Nov 8, 2022 for their talk: "NEON and USA-NPN. Partnering to grow phenology collection, use, and understanding." The goal of the NEON monthly science seminar series is to build community among researchers at the intersection of ecology, environmental science, and NEON. Specifically, presentations will: Highlight new findings and frontiers of ecology and NEON science Build a diverse and inclusive researcher community Showcase and catalyze partnerships Amplify resources and tools that enable cross-scale ecological research All talks are 12-1 pm MT...
In this private online workshop, NEON scientists will lead participants through the NEON data portal and teach them how to access and work with NEON data in R. This is a closed workshop for students participating in the Community College Field Biology Alliance program.
Learn how to download and work with NEON LiDAR data using Python! In this 1.5-hour online workshop, NEON scientist Bridget Hass will lead participants through programmatically downloading NEON LiDAR data using functions in Python. Then, participants will use Python packages and functions to explore some of NEON's Discrete LiDAR data products, including the Level-1 classified point cloud (Discrete return LiDAR point cloud), and Level-3 raster data products including the Digital Terrain Model and Digital Surface Model (DTM/DSM, Elevation - LiDAR), and Canopy Height Model (CHM, Ecosystem...
NEON Outreach Coordinator, Marie Faust, will be giving a presentation on NEON outreach and engagement for the CZNet Education and Outreach group's seminar series.
Join Elizabeth LaRue on Oct 11, 2022 for her talk: "Structural diversity as a predictor of ecosystem function across scales and ecoclimatic domains." The goal of the NEON monthly science seminar series is to build community among researchers at the intersection of ecology, environmental science, and NEON. Specifically, presentations will: Highlight new findings and frontiers of ecology and NEON science Build a diverse and inclusive researcher community Showcase and catalyze partnerships Amplify resources and tools that enable cross-scale ecological research All talks are 12-1 pm MT. Find the...
The NEON Great Lakes User Group will have a site tour of NEON's UNDE site in Domain 05 on October 6! Participants will have the chance to: Join a D05 botanist on all or part of a phenology bout. Tour the aquatic instrumentation at Crampton Lake, take a few boats to the instrumentation buoy See the UNDERC tower and soil instruments, with opportunity to climb the ~120 ft tower and get a tour of soil area and instrument hut. View the NEON Lab Space where soils lab work occurs ...and more! Visit the groups page for questions!
Join a NEON Technical Working Group! NEON relies upon input from more than 20 TWGs, comprised of science, education, and engineering experts. These groups play an important role by providing input to NEON’s data collection and processing methods; they also help ensure that NEON infrastructure, data, and programs are a valuable community resource. Nominate yourself or a colleague today! Applications due September 30 for the 2023 cohorts. Nomination form: https://buff.ly/3QuUPWp Learn more about TWGs: https://www.neonscience.org/about/advisory-groups/twgs
The National Ecological Observatory Network cordially invites the Allenspark, Colorado community to join our field staff for a meet and greet and presentation and forum. Where: "The Old Gallery" at Allenspark, Colorado When: Sept 27, 4:30pm - 6:30pm Learn more about the National Ecological Observatory Program (NEON) field site at the Leiffer Propery in Rocky Mountain National Park and Roosevelt National Forest and enjoy complimentary snacks and refreshments with your community! Since 2012, the NEON team has been monitoring and sampling environmental data in Allenspark. Data on climate and...
Join Sydne Record on Sep 13, 2022 for her talk: "Past and current land use of NEON sites." The goal of the NEON monthly science seminar series is to build community among researchers at the intersection of ecology, environmental science, and NEON. Specifically, presentations will: Highlight new findings and frontiers of ecology and NEON science Build a diverse and inclusive researcher community Showcase and catalyze partnerships Amplify resources and tools that enable cross-scale ecological research All talks are 12-1 pm MT. Find the schedule of speakers for 2022-23 on our webpage Science...
The 16th Biennial Conference of Science & Management on the Colorado Plateau & Southwest Region will be held in Flagstaff, Arizona, September 12-15. NEON Domain 14 Field Ecologist Katie Matthiesen will be giving a talk at the conference focusing on NEON data and resources available in the Southwest.
The call for short presentation and hands-on workshop proposals for the 8th Life Discovery conference is open now through September 9! Join the LDC conference in Tallahassee, FL, March 2023! This year's theme is "Variants in Biology Education: What can we learn from pandemics?" Learn more about next year's conference and submit: https://www.esa.org/ldc/call-for-proposals-2023/presentations-and-works…
The 2022 Natural Areas Conference will be in Duluth Minnesota, September 6-9. NEON will be giving a talk at conference focusing on"what NEON can do for you."
Join NEON staff for a workshop at the ESA/CSEE 2022 meeting: Explore and work with harmonized continental-scale biodiversity data from NEON and the US LTER! When: 8/19/2022; 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM Sign up when you register for the ESA/CSEE 2022 conference! The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) provide open ecological data from across the United States. NEON provides data from automated instruments, observational sampling, and airborne remote sensing across 81 sites. EDI hosts data from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) network...
This workshop, held at the 2022 Ecological Society of America Meeting, will guide you through the basics of data access in R, then provide time to explore NEON phenology data and resources and discuss additional data sets that may be utilized in downstream analyses.
We're excited to join you at this year's Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting - the first in-person in 3 years! There will be multiple NEON-related events at ESA 2022.
NOTE: This workshop has been postponed until FALL 2022 Intended audience: Open to federal and non-federal participants including funders, scientists, policy-makers and practitioners with interests, expertise, resources and/or capabilities to inform federal CDR research opportunities, partnerships and investments related to air, land, coasts and societal dimensions. More details: Continue checking the US Carbon Program and NACP websites for updates related to this workshop. Workshop Sponsors: DOE FECM, I-CDR-C and CCIWG Learn more: https://www.carboncyclescience.us/news/save-date-us-carbon...
The "Hacking Limnology" Workshop will take place on July 25-27, 2022 13:00-17:00 EST. The 2022 Virtual Summit will take place on July 28-29, 2022 13:00-17:00 EST. Registration for the third annual "Virtual Summit: Incorporating Data Science and Open Science in Aquatic Research" is now open! Registration is free for everyone and will remain open until 27 July, but zoom login information (link, password, etc.) will be emailed on 19 and 27 July. The link to registration can be found here, and the schedule can be found here. The summit is intended to bring together diverse, energetic folks who are...
The Fluxcourse is a two week early-career workshop focused on the foundations of land-atmosphere flux measurement, modeling, and synthesis. NEON staff will be teaching components of Fluxcourse dedicated to working with NEON data, network data synthesis, and using NEON data to inform land-surface models. Applications for Fluxcourse 2022 have closed; if you are interested in attending Fluxcourse 2023, watch http://www.fluxcourse.org/ for applications to open in early 2023.
In this workshop we will explore the breadth of NEON educational resources through the lens of remote learning, including our Tutorials, Teaching Modules, and Science Videos. We will also do some live hand-on programming in R to access and explore NEON data. The goals for this workshop are to increase your awareness of NEON resources (documents and staff!), understand the workflow for working with NEON data in R, and to highlight how each of these can fit into an online curriculum.
EREN (Ecological Research as Education Network), Project EDDIE (Environmental Data-Driven Inquiry and Exploration), and NEON are partnering to support a collaborative community of educators and researchers who want to explore new approaches, tools and datasets for their classrooms and research labs that combine the EREN project model with NEON data and EDDIE techniques for teaching data science. Participants in this community are gathering for a series of workshops, talks, and work time with their research groups on the projects we have been developing over the 2021-2022 academic year. Funding...
AIHEC, the Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Working Group, NEON, UCAR, and the University of Colorado’s Earth Lab are holding a summit on June 15-17 in Boulder CO. This meeting will bring together members of the national climate change research community and TCUs for two and a half days of sharing, planning and brainstorming around the goal of aligning the education and research resources of climate science partners around Tribal climate resilience. (This is a closed event)
