"iDigBio, the Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSCA), and Arizona State University (ASU) are delighted to announce the 2023 Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, 5-7 June, with this edition of the conference offering both in-person and virtual participation. We are anticipating a return to interpersonal interaction as well as continuing the option for remote engagement. The overall theme for the 2023 conference will be Leveraging Digital Data for Conservation, Ecology, Systematics, and Novel Biodiversity Research." The 2023 conference will be held at Arizona State University...
The theme of this year's workshop is Understanding the Relationships: People, Place, Technology, the Environment, and Climate Change. How do these relate to each other and to rebuilding and rediscovering relationships? NEON staff will be participating in the workshop. The application for in person has ended but we are still accepting applications for the virtual option until March 31st. Learn more and register at risingvoices.ucar.edu/events/workshops/2023
We are excited to announce the next installment in our series of NCAR-NEON Workshops focused on linking the geosciences and ecology. This year’s workshop will focus on using NCAR-NEON modeling and data visualization tools to develop new research avenues and obtain feedback on how this collaboration can best serve the community going forward. The workshop will include presentations, tutorials, and working group sessions aimed at developing early-career projects leveraging NCAR-NEON tools. Additional agenda information forthcoming. When: May 31 - June 2 Where: NCAR Mesa Lab, Boulder, CO Funding...
In this 1.5-hour online workshop, NEON scientist Bridget Hass will present live-coding exercises on working with the NEON Airborne Observation Platform spectral reflectance data, which can now be accessed through Google Earth Engine (GEE). Participants will learn some basic GEE workflows for visualizing and pre-processing the spectral data (eg. masking bad weather data). For the first hour, participants can follow along with the live coding on their own computers and ask for help via chat if needed. Live coding will be run in the Earth Engine code editor, using the GEE JavaScript API. The...
Hosted by the California Academy of Sciences, the next meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) will be held in San Francisco, California, US, from May 28 to June 2, 2023. SPNHC 2023 will be held at the Hilton Union Square in downtown San Francisco. Learn more on the conference website: https://www.calacademy.org/spnhc-2023
May 23rd - 25th, 2023 SEEC building, University of Colorado Boulder NEON staff will be participating in and supporting the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab's first Innovation Summit! These summits are designed to facilitate idea-sharing and create conditions for intellectual creativity to foster innovative research. The goals of the 2023 Innovation Summit are to: Define a decadal research agenda for the growing field of environmental data science by articulating the most pressing environmental challenges and opportunities for solutions-oriented science, and by bridging...
Join Sarah Shivers, Senior Product Manager; Keely Roth, Lead Scientist for Hyperspectral at Planet on May 9, 2023 for their talk: "Planet's Hyperspectral Offering: A commercial mission with a public benefit" 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...
This four-day event will include hands-on data tutorials, plenary talks by socio-environmental systems experts, and field trips in and around the Great Smoky Mountains! Landscape Exchange Network for Socio-environmental systems is a Research Coordination Network funded by the National Science Foundation. We are accepting letters of interest to participate in the workshop until January 25, 2023. NEON scientists will be present to support the efforts of this great group. LENS: "We seek to build a community interested in understanding interactions between natural and human systems in landscapes...
Join Kimberly Novick, Indiana University and Flurin Babst, University of Arizona, on behalf of the AmeriFlux Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) Working Group, on April 11, 2023 for their talk: "Nature-based climate solutions in AmeriFlux – optimizing ecosystem structure for climate mitigation" 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...
Join the new Macrosystems Ecology For All (MEFA) Research Coordination Network on April 4 at 11:00EST for a 90-minute virtual event (details here: https://erenweb.org/mefa-events/). Are you interested in macrosystems ecology? Would you like to explore how to use publicly available large datasets in your classroom, and/or to tackle macrosystems research questions? Do you want to learn about how to get involved in new collaborative macrosystems ecology research alongside your undergraduate students? If so, then this event is for you! You will hear 4 macrosystems ecologists (including NEON's...
This 1.5-hour webinar will provide an introduction to accessing and working with NEON soil sensor data, using the neonUtilities package in the R programming language.
The Ecological Society of America and Florida A&M University will be holding the 8th Life Discovery Conference in March. This conference highlights the leading science, curriculum design and implementation and data exploration in a research-rich biology education for high school and undergraduate students. The 2023 theme is "Variants in Biology Education: What can we learn from pandemics?" Where: Florida A&M University When: Mar 23 - 25, 2023 NEON staff will be attending this event from the Southeast Domain. Also, attend the session by NEON's Rhea Esposito on Friday March 24 (Round 2):...
The 2023 International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE) - North American chapter Annual Meeting will be held Sunday, March 19 - Thursday, March 23, 2023 in Riverside, California. NEON remote sensing scientist, Dr. Shashi Konduri, will be attending and is co-convening a special symposium, Remote Sensing of Landscape Change and Disturbance. Visit the meeting website here.
The Fiscal Year 2024 Call for FICUS Program Research with the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory - EMSL and the Joint Genome Institute is open and accepting letters of intent through March 15, 2023. This call enables researchers in the biological and environmental sciences to access instrumentation and resources at multiple U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, user facilities. Capabilities also are available through DOE-supported user facilities, which include Bio-SANS beamline through the Center for Structural Molecular Biology (CSMB) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
Join the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Pacific daylight time on March 14, 2023 for the live launch of the national Molecular Observation Network (MONet) initiative. Hear from the Department of Energy, Office of Science Director Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, EMSL researchers, and initiative collaborators who will talk about how MONet will advance climate science research and how to get involved. EMSL is accepting soil samples to collect data on the composition and structure of soil, water, and resident microbial communities from across the U.S. This data...
Join Erin Rooney, University of Tennessee Knoxville on Mar 14, 2023 for her talk: "Using NEON soil and site properties to evaluate cross-scale freeze-thaw disturbance" 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...
Join a new NSF-funded Research Coordination Network, Macrosystems Ecology For All (MEFA) for their launch event. At a 90-minute opening event, hear four macrosystems ecologists share their projects and stories, engage in thinking about what it might take for you to shift towards or build your existing macrosystems research, and learn all about the MEFA RCN and upcoming events. MEFA Launch Event: Introduction to Macrosystems Ecology Friday, March 3, 10 - 11:30 am EST REGISTER by February 27 Event info: https://erenweb.org/mefa-events/ The Macrosystems Ecology for All (MEFA) Research...
This 1.5-hour webinar will provide an introduction to the structure and use of APIs in general, and the NEON API in particular. Access to the API will be via Python, but the general principles are applicable to any coding language.
Join Stephanie Russo Carroll, University of Arizona and Global Indigenous Data Alliance on Feb 14, 2023 for her talk: "Implementing the CARE Principles in open data repositories" 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...
Applications are closed for this event This Summit aims to bring together all types of environmental data scientists to lay the foundation for a more cohesive and collaborative transdisciplinary community. The goals of the Summit are to build community and foster collaboration within the Environmental Data Science community. This year’s theme is Harnessing Diversity in Environmental Data Science. Several NEON scientists are participating in this event. Visit the meeting website to learn more.
Join the Ecological Forecasting Initiative for a participant-driven meeting in Boulder, CO, June 21 - 23. The goal of the 2023 Unconference is for participants to work together on products such as developing forecasts, automating forecasts, developing teaching materials/tutorials, refining or creating software tools, analyzing forecasts for a manuscript, developing visualizations, or working on other activities proposed by the participants. Space is limited. Apply by February 1. View the meeting webpage.
Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Studies
The original date of the iLEAPS - OzFlux Joint Conference was February 2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the conference has moved to 2023. The conference will be hybrid virtual and in Auckland, New Zealand. AUT is proud to host the 6th iLEAPS Science Conference in 2023, in the vibrant city of Auckland and online, in conjunction with the yearly conference of the Australian/New Zealand Network for eddy covariance measurements (OzFlux). The research platform ‘iLEAPS’ (Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Studies) is one of several Future Earth research initiatives, with the critical...
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.
