The 2026 CALCON Technical Meeting, also known as the Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing Annual Meeting brings together scientists, engineers, managers, and mission to discuss challenges and solutions for calibration, remote sensing, radiometric issues and more.
The iDigBio Digital Data Conference is a free virtual conference that brings together the community to explore the theme "enabling science through integrated biodiversity data." The NEON Biorepository and a NEON Ambassador will be presenting at the conference.
ACCESS, NAIRR Pilot & University of Colorado, Boulder
The "AI Unlocked: Empowering Higher Education through Research and Discovery" in Denver, CO is a day and a half-long event that enables researchers, educators, and students to learn how to integrate AI tools in research and classroom settings.
The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases conference provides a platform for attendees to discuss and connect around topics of disease and ecology, like disease impacts, interventions, and ecological feedbacks. NEON Ecologist, Sara Paull, will be at the conference presenting a poster about the NEON mosquito pathogen status data product and sitting on the career panel. Learn more on the conference website and view the complete program here.
Instructors interested in bringing microbiome research into the classroom in the Mountain West can apply by Mar. 31 to take part in this microbiome education and training workshop. The workshop is hosted by Colorado State Microbiome Network (CoSMic) is partnering with the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) MICROnet.
The Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) will host the SFS Annual Meeting in Spokane, WA, May 17-21. The theme of the conference is "Gathering to Build Resilient Watersheds and Communities." Find NEON in oral and poster sessions, or join the NEON-led workshop to learn more about NEON's aquatic data.
On May 12, the NEON Science Seminar Series will feature Ranjan Muthukrishnan of St. Olaf College presenting the talk, "Linking Local Scale Community Processes into Global Scale Ecological Dynamics"
Join the Environmental Data Science Innovation and Impact Lab (ESIIL) for their 4th annual ESIIL Innovation Summit: AI for Sustainability in Boulder, Colorado from May 12-14! The Summit is designed for anyone eager to shape the future of AI-driven environmental discovery. Apply to attend by Jan 31.
The Association of Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) and the International Society of Limnology (SIL) are hosting a joint meeting with the theme, Aquatic Confluence: Science, People, Knowledge. Connect with NEON at the meeting and learn more about NEON aquatic data.
Five speakers will present talks as part of the mini-symposium, "Integrating Organismal Biology into NEON," held in-person at the University of Colorado, Boulder campus in Boulder, Colorado.
The Long Term Ecological Research Network is hosting a session to brainstorm and shape projects that address elements of the LTER strategic plan. Register to attend and contribute to the discussions.
Join this 1.5-hour online workshop to learn the fundamentals of working with NEON Airborne Observation Platform remote sensing data in Google Earth Engine (GEE).
On April 14, the NEON Science Seminar Series will feature Daniel Allen of Penn State presenting the talk, "Towards Understanding how Drying Impacts Streams across Biological and Spatial Scales"
The First Imageomics Conference will bring together the imageomics community to discuss and contribute to the future of biological discovery through the intersection of visual data with science, machine learning, and AI.
Gain familiarity with the NEON Biorepository in this 1-hour webinar. NEON Biorepository biodiversity informatician, Chandra Earl, will provide an orientation to the NEON Biorepository and show attendees the resources and tools to smoothly connect with samples and specimens.
The FAIR in ML, AI Readiness, & Reproducibility Research Coordination Network (FARR RCN) workshop Apr. 8-9 brings together scientists, practitioners, and developers to move forward AI readiness, reproducibility, and FAIR principles in machine learning.
Join Hydrologists and data managers from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) to learn more about the breadth of NEON's hydrology data products collected across observational, instrumented, and remote sensing subsystems. This is the second event in a two-part series.
The NEON Research Support Services (NRSS) program provides elements of NEON's infrastructure to community members, aiding their research and other activities. Join the webinar to learn more about the NRSS program, including the currently available services and accessible infrastructure.
Join Mar. 24 at 12pm MT for a seminar about the NEON design and NEON resources, with a focus on data, samples, and training materials that are well suited to undergraduate instruction. The seminar is part of the series hosted by Open Education Ecosystems Research Coordination Network.
On March 10, the NEON Science Seminar Series will feature Lindsay Campbell of University of Florida presenting the talk "Leveraging NEON Mosquito Collections for Broadscale Assessment of Abundance and Phenology"
Join Hydrologists and data managers from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) to learn more about the breadth of NEON's hydrology data products collected across observational, instrumented, and remote sensing subsystems. This is a two part series taking place on Mar 4, 2026, and the second on Apr 1, 2026.
NEON is collaborating with AmeriFlux and CarbonDew to host the workshop Remote Sensing and Fluxes for Real-world Impact: Integration with Advanced Techniques on March 4-5, 2026 in Boulder, CO . The workshop is a unique opportunity to advance your skills in connecting eddy-covariance flux measurements with geospatial data to enhance real-world applications. The in-person event invites leading researchers, early-career scientists, industry representatives, regulators, land managers, and other stakeholders to refine and apply robust data integration algorithms that unite the benefits of in-situ...
Join this 1.5-hour online workshop to learn the fundamentals of NEON data access and navigation, including using the neonUtilities package, reading metadata, and downloading data into a programming environment.
On Feb. 12 (Hackathon), join the National Ecological Observatory Network and the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact lab for a virtual hackathon. The hackathon will introduce the NSF Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) Machine Learning (ML) Challenge - Scientific Modeling out of Distribution (Scientific-MOOD), and a virtual space to form a team and create a submission. Join Feb. 10 at 10am for training on setting up an account and the CyVerse and Codabench platforms.
On Feb 10, the NEON Science Seminar Series will feature Renato Figueiredo of Oregon State University presenting "Towards Natural Language-based AI Agents for Environmental Data Exploration and Analysis Workflows"
The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Association of Ecosystem Research Centers (AERC), and the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL) are converging February 9-12 for a workshop focused on scientific communication entitled, “From Data to Decisions: Strategies for Translational Communication of Complex Data to Decision Makers.”
Join us for an in-person hackathon at the University of Colorado Boulder on Tuesday, Jan 27, to learn how to use AI/ML tools on the CyVerse platform to predict biological, ecological, and environmental data. The event will provide an introduction to the NSF Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) Machine Learning Challenge, including a venue to form a team and get started with a submission to the challenge. The event will include presentations on each of the three benchmarks used for this year's challenge, an overview of the Codabench platform, an overview of CyVerse compute resources that will...
On Jan 13, the NEON Science Seminar Series will feature Pete Beckman of Northwestern University presenting "Sage Grande: Put your Sensors on the Edge with AI at NEON Sites and Beyond"
The 2025 American Geophysical Union conference brings together scientists, educators, and policymakers to explore groundbreaking research, connect with global experts and discuss topics in Earth and space science. Come find NEON at the NEON booth in the exhibit hall and interact with NEON staff at a variety of NEON-led events.
