Join a free, virtual panel to hear Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Secretariat and GBIF North America community members share lessons learned from publishing biodiversity data as Sampling Events and how the Sampling Event structure unlocks richer, more reusable datasets. The NEON Biorepository will be represented on the panel.
In conjunction with the International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), the National Science Data Fabric (NSDF) will host the Summit on Federated Autonomous Science. This working meeting will bring together participants from academia, industry, national laboratories, research facilities, and cyberinfrastructure organizations to discuss how federated data architectures and autonomous AI can support collaborative science while respecting security, data sovereignty, privacy, and regulatory requirements. Dr. Eric Sokol, NEON Ecologist, will present on "FAIR4AI...
Join the seminar on October 13, 2026 for the talk "Project Sparrow: From the field to the lab – A full AI solution for biodiversity" presented by Zhongqi Miao from Microsoft, AI for Good Lab.
The Geological Society of America (GSA) Connects 2026 conference offers programming and sessions for geoscientists to present research, collaborate, and engage with peers. NEON will have a poster in the poster session and will be on hand to connect.
The U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Biological Sciences will make awards for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) to recent doctoral degree recipients for proposals with a research and training focus at the intersection for artificial intelligence and biological sciences to strengthen and safeguard biotechnology innovations. Proposals are due by Sept. 29, 2026.
The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) is hosting the 2026 Annual Conference as a hybrid conference in Oslo, Norway, Sept. 21-25, 2026. NEON Biorepository and Science staff will present and be available to connect.
Join the seminar on September 8, 2026 for the talk "Spectral landscape ecology as a tool for inferring the spatial organization of intraspecific variation: Insights from NEON imaging spectroscopy" presented by Megan Seeley of Arizona State University.
DSOS (Data Science and Open Science) and AEMON-J (Aquatic Ecosystem MOdeling Network - Junior) organize the "Hacking Limnology Virtual Summit and Workshops," a multi-day event of presentations about aquatic research and workshops that include keynote talks and live coding exercises. Day 3 of the workshops will focus on linking NEON aquatic macroinvertebrate data with water quality, stream discharge and other sensor data.
The NSF Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) Ecosystem Conference brings together the HDR community to accelerate data-intensive science, engineering, and education.
The Ecological Forecasting Initiative (EFI) annual meeting brings together people across the globe to share research and applications in ecological forecasting. NEON will provide a beetle forecasting workshop at this year's annual meeting.
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah from July 26-31, 2026. This year's meeting theme is "Ecology in an Era of Uncertainty".
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.
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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 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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
