"The International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) is the flagship conference of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS). It is aimed at providing a platform for sharing knowledge and experience on recent developments and advancements in geoscience and remote sensing technologies, particularly in the context of earth observation, disaster monitoring and risk assessment." Read more and register on the conference website: https://2023.ieeeigarss.org/index.php
A Joint Meeting of the International Federation of Mammalogists and the American Society of Mammalogists "'The scientific program for the IMC-13 meeting will include symposia, workshops, and plenary speakers, as well as contributed oral and poster presentations. A full social agenda also is being planned and will including field trips and social events. A tentative program schedule is now available, and will be updated as necessary." Location: Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center in Anchorage, Alaska Learn more and register: https://imc13.com/
NEON Ambassadors are holding a new July workshop series to explore NEON derived data products! Dates: July 14, 18, 19, 20. Time: 11am - 3pm (ET) Applications for this workshop are closed We are looking to bring together researchers, data scientists, and educators who are utilizing NEON data to identify and prioritize opportunities to improve the usability of NEON data. Empowering scientists and researchers to assess what is needed and what those derived data products are will help us build a better ecological future. This is a great opportunity to address the community’s diverse and evolving...
"Major Research Facilities and large research institutions have complex cyberinfrastructure and workflow needs. There are increasing calls for data openness and sharing, such as with the Nelson memo from last fall, and this is balanced by the complexity to store and manage the this amount of research data. This workshop will facilitate discussion on the problems faced in the research data management of these organizations, and approaches to dealing with these issues through processes, technical tools, or policy." Learn more on the meeting website: https://2023.jcdl.org/program/workshops...
June 21-23, 2023 Location: NEON Headquarters, Boulder, CO The Ecological Forecasting Initiative (EFI) is holding their 2023 Unconference at NEON Headquarters! NEON staff are excited to work with the 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. There will be a particular focus on using NEON data. The meeting will provide an opportunity to learn...
ASM Microbe is the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Annual Meeting. Join NEON staff and collaborators from the National Microbiome Data Collaborative for a panel discussion, as well as many other opportunities at this event. "Join thousands of scientists, researchers and healthcare professionals in your field, who are all traveling to Houston, TX from June 15-19 for the largest microbial sciences gathering in the world! Andy Weir, John Nkengasong and Edward Holmes are just some of the world-renowned speakers lined up in ASM Microbe’s cutting-edge scientific program." Learn more and...
Join Manoj Hari, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India and National Center for Atmospheric Research on June 13, 2023 for his talk: "Synergies between the Community Land Model (CLM) and satellite proxies in capturing terrestrial carbon dynamics at 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 robust and active researcher community Showcase and catalyze...
The NEON RCN is an NSF Research Coordination Network whose goal is to increase the number of organismal biologists working with NEON data or at NEON sites. This workshop will be held late June 2023 at Archbold Biological Station in the headwaters of the Everglades, Florida. Find updates and learn more on the RCN webpage: https://www.iobn2neon.org/rcn-workshop-archbold
"The Directorate of Biological Sciences (BIO), the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), and the Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) at the National Science Foundation have jointly funded a workshop that aims to build new connections among key BioSci communities to successfully conduct ‘Use-inspired Research’. The workshop will consist of a series of events: two free virtual Pre-Workshop MicroLabs (for an unlimited number of participants) and an In-Person Workshop (for 120 selected participants representing diverse groups and organizations)...
Location: Granlibakken Resort, Tahoe City, CA "Every two years, CUAHSI hosts a Biennial Colloquium focused on developments in the hydrology sector of the Earth Sciences. The symposium offers a unique opportunity and a casual environment for participants to discuss ideas and interact with colleagues from different disciplinary fields from all over the country. Students are especially encouraged to attend! The theme for the 2023 biennial is, Discovering New Horizons in Water Science." Read more on the conference website: https://www.cuahsi.org/events/biennial
" 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 Unidata Users Committee invites you to join Unidata staff, community members, and guests for a community workshop to take place in 5-8 June 2023 as a hybrid (in-person and/or virtual) event hosted in Boulder, Colorado. General registration is open until May 12. Register here. The workshop organizing committee is still at work inviting presenters and crafting specific hands-on activities for the four-day workshop. They have outlined the following day-by-day workshop themes, along with some expected outcomes from each day's activities. Day 1 Theme: Grand challenges and storytelling Day 2...
"At the Eighth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds (ICRW), federal and state scientists, academics, NGOs, and others will focus on Adaptive watershed science and ecosystem management in a changing climate." LaSells Stewart Center Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon — June 5-8, 2023 Conference website: https://icrwatersheds.org/icrw8/
When: June 4 - 9, 2023 Where: Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts "The Predictive Ecology GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program includes a diverse range of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field." NEON staff scientist...
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...
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
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 robust and active researcher community Showcase and catalyze partnerships Amplify resources and tools that enable cross-scale...
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 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 robust and active researcher community Showcase and catalyze partnerships Amplify resources and tools that enable cross-scale ecological research All talks are 12-1 pm...
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...
