Due to network storage maintenance that is scheduled to occur this coming weekend, the Data Portal applications and API will be unavailable during certain time periods between April 24th, 07:00:00 MDT and April 25th, 23:00:00 MDT.
Join NEON & the Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS) for an informal chat with researchers using NEON data to examine carbon storage and cycling in ecosystems within Colorado, Maryland, and Virginia. Find out who they are, how they got interested in ecological carbon research, and the research questions they are asking.
NEON is seeking nominations for its Science, Technology & Education Advisory Committee. Please consider nominating yourself or a peer by April 1, 2021! NEON's STEAC is an advisory body to the NEON Program that provides strategic advice to Battelle, the NEON Principal Investigator (PI), and NEON Program staff on the planning and operation of the NEON Program and other relevant programs. We are seeking nominees that represent a diversity of institution types, expertise, backgrounds, perspectives, identities, and career stages. In particular, we are seeking scientists with specialization in...
The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
Join NEON for a webinar on March 24, 2021! The National Ecological Observatory Network has countless datasets, supporting documents, training resources, pieces of infrastructure, and experts across the United States and Puerto Rico - so where should you get started? Join us for a 1-hour webinar where we will introduce you to the NEON Observatory and provide an overview of our most essential resources to help you get started using NEON data for your own research, learning, and teaching. This webinar will also serve as an advertisement for our upcoming four-day (3hr/day) workshop the week of...
NSF NEON WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT Complex Landscapes at Scale: Integrating our Understanding of Managed and Unmanaged Lands at Regional to Continental Scales Registration deadline: March 21, 2021 REGISTER HERE Growing societal pressure for agriculture that is both productive and environmentally responsive creates opportunities to design crop and rangeland systems that better integrate with their wildland counterparts. Understanding potential interactions in complex landscapes and how they scale to regional and continental outcomes is prerequisite for creating landscapes that deliver multiple...
View the recorded webinar on our YouTube channel here. Did you know you can request your own mobile NEON site? We're excited to get our Mobile Deployment Platforms (MDPs) out into the field and working for you! Learn how to request an MDP, what measurements it can take, costs, potential use cases, and more! Join us for a webinar to learn all about NEON's Mobile Deployment Platforms. Tuesday March 16, 2021 11:00 - 11:45 AM MST Please register ahead of time for the event, then save it to your calendar! REGISTER HERE About MDPs: Last year’s historic wildfires were a vivid display of the important...
Join the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) for a free webinar: "Accessing NEON's Environmental Sample Archives, Applying JGI & EMSL Omics Tools to Solve Biological Grand Challenges." Thursday, March 4, 9:00AM-10:00AM (PST) Webinar recording: Learn more about the FICUS JGI-EMSL proposal call (Letter of Intent due March 17). Webinar Description: The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open access ecological data to better understand how U.S. ecosystems are changing...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
NEON will be presenting at the Exploring a Dynamic Soil Information System workshop, hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
The Ecological Society of America's 2021 Annual Meeting is inviting proposals for contributed talks and posters! Submit your abstract by 5pm EST on Thursday, February 25. Visit the ESA Meeting website for more info on this year's hybrid conference and to submit abstract proposals. -- ESA 2021 Annual Meeting theme: Vital Connections in Ecology "Ecologists seek to understand the vital connections between plants and animals and the world around them. Collectively, research shows that ecological connections are critical for maintaining ecosystem function and resilience in the face of change...
NEON will be leading a national webinar for the Nature Conservancy (TNC) staff. Grab your lunch, snack, or coffee and join us to learn about the NEON program on Thursday, February 25th from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. (EST)
NEON's massive database presents challenges for researchers who wish to analyze these 'big data' on their own personal computer. Fortunately, CyVerse offers a cloud computing platform that is optimized for 'big data' processing, with many tools available to support NEON data specifically. On Friday February 19th 2021 NEON Scientists Bridget Hass and Donal O'Leary will be joining CyVerse to present a 1-hour webinar highlighting the tools and workflows needed to process NEON data on CyVerse's massive cloud computing platform. During this webinar, the presenters will discuss many of the NEON...
Ecology is a field known for close, personal collaborations and camaraderie in the lab and in the field. But with the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting laboratories, colleges, and universities around the world, ecologists have been challenged to reimagine what it means to teach and do ecology as a community. To address this challenge, NEON Scientists Claire Lunch and Donal O'Leary will join the Ecological Research as Education Network (EREN) Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN) to discuss NEON educational resources including teaching modules, data skills tutorials, and YouTube videos. These resources...
NEON will be participating in the iDigTRIO 2021 Biological Career Conference & Fair! Details This conference provides opportunities for college students from first-generation, low-income, or minority backgrounds to explore career and professional development opportunities in STEM. It is a three-day virtual experience, where participants can engage in a career shadowing experience, resource fair, and biology career workshop. It will be a virtual event with most activities taking place February 11-13, 2021. Learn more about the conference here! NEON Events NEON will be showing a video that...
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The 2021 AAAS Meeting will be held entirely online from February 8-11, with related pre-released materials available starting January 18. NEON staff will be participating in the conference. This year's theme is "Understanding Dynamic Ecosystems." "We are embedded in a variety of ecosystems, including the environments that we inhabit and the many social systems in which we live and work. Finding ways of maintaining the stable balance of these ecosystems in the face of rapidly changing circumstances is critical for our advancement. Drawing on a multitude of scientific perspectives, this Annual...
Paulinus Chigbu, PhD and Robert Shepard, PhD, will be hosting a three-day workshop with the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) with a specific focus on identifying opportunities for collaboration, and increasing awareness of and engagement with NEON, among faculty, researchers, and students of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This workshop introduces participants to NEON, teaches them how to access and work with NEON data, and allows them to interact with NEON science staff to get assistance working on the specific data products they are interested in using...
The participants of the workshop will learn about the available datasets and tools to study ecological processes using NEON data. By the end of the workshop, participants will understand how they can use the suite of NEON data products to address their research questions.
We're excited to join you at this year's American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting that will be held entirely online. There will be several NEON-related events at AGU 2020, in addition to some concurrent events not affiliated with the conference.
Join us for an intensive three-day, hands-on, remote workshop and learn how to create, use, deploy, and share analyses of NEON AOP data using the CyVerse platform.
The Ecological Society of America’s SEEDS (Strategies for Ecology Education, Diversity and Sustainability) program, in partnership with the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), invites graduate students from underrepresented experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds to attend an interactive workshop from October 26-30, 2020 to develop key ecological data science skills and to discover ways to use NEON data.
NEON Domain 17 field staff will be holding an Explore NEON workshop October 24th-25th. This 2-Day workshop will introduce participants to NEON as an organization and provide background on Domain 17 and the NEON sampling design. Participants will interact with Domain 17 field staff and members of the NEON Science team while learning how to view, download, and analyze NEON data using the popular coding environment R.
This workshop introduces participants to NEON, teaches them how to access and work with NEON data, and allows them to interact with NEON science staff to get assistance working on the specific data products they are interested in using. The workshop includes hands-on, interactive instruction on how to access and work with NEON data, both through the NEON data portal and programmatically. This event is hosted by the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and is open to all.
The Entomological Society of America will be holding its annual meeting virtually from November 11th to 25th. The submission deadline for presenters to submit their papers, posters, infographics has been extended to September, 08.
In this workshop we will provide an introduction to discovering, accessing and preparing a variety of NEON data for your research, primarily using R. We will also explore a variety of educational resources designed to help familiarize you with NEON data, including but not limited to Tutorials, Teaching Modules, and Science Videos.
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.
Register for up to four webinars presenting four new flexible learning projects that you could use in your teaching this fall. All four projects focus on teaching students through hands-on, coordinated data collection across multiple sites paired with NEON's continental scale datasets.
This workshop focuses on NEON biodiversity data collected from the over 80 NEON field sites. Instruction will include an overview of the breadth of NEON biodiversity data before providing code-along instruction on how to get NEON biodiversity data into standardized formats (long and wide species tables with relevant metadata to make cross data product comparisons possible).
