Join a NEON Technical Working Group! NEON relies upon input from more than 20 TWGs, comprised of science, education, and engineering experts. These groups play an important role by providing input to NEON’s data collection and processing methods; they also help ensure that NEON infrastructure, data, and programs are a valuable community resource. Nominate yourself or a colleague today! Applications due September 30 for the 2023 cohorts. Nomination form: https://buff.ly/3QuUPWp Learn more about TWGs: https://www.neonscience.org/about/advisory-groups/twgs
The National Ecological Observatory Network cordially invites the Allenspark, Colorado community to join our field staff for a meet and greet and presentation and forum. Where: "The Old Gallery" at Allenspark, Colorado When: Sept 27, 4:30pm - 6:30pm Learn more about the National Ecological Observatory Program (NEON) field site at the Leiffer Propery in Rocky Mountain National Park and Roosevelt National Forest and enjoy complimentary snacks and refreshments with your community! Since 2012, the NEON team has been monitoring and sampling environmental data in Allenspark. Data on climate and...
Join Sydne Record on Sep 13, 2022 for her talk: "Past and current land use of 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 partnerships Amplify resources and tools that enable cross-scale ecological research All talks are 12-1 pm MT. Find the schedule of speakers for 2022-23 on our webpage Science Seminar...
The 16th Biennial Conference of Science & Management on the Colorado Plateau & Southwest Region will be held in Flagstaff, Arizona, September 12-15. NEON Domain 14 Field Ecologist Katie Matthiesen will be giving a talk at the conference focusing on NEON data and resources available in the Southwest.
The call for short presentation and hands-on workshop proposals for the 8th Life Discovery conference is open now through September 9! Join the LDC conference in Tallahassee, FL, March 2023! This year's theme is "Variants in Biology Education: What can we learn from pandemics?" Learn more about next year's conference and submit: https://www.esa.org/ldc/call-for-proposals-2023/presentations-and-works…
The 2022 Natural Areas Conference will be in Duluth Minnesota, September 6-9. NEON will be giving a talk at conference focusing on"what NEON can do for you."
Join NEON staff for a workshop at the ESA/CSEE 2022 meeting: Explore and work with harmonized continental-scale biodiversity data from NEON and the US LTER! When: 8/19/2022; 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM Sign up when you register for the ESA/CSEE 2022 conference! The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) provide open ecological data from across the United States. NEON provides data from automated instruments, observational sampling, and airborne remote sensing across 81 sites. EDI hosts data from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) network...
This workshop, held at the 2022 Ecological Society of America Meeting, will guide you through the basics of data access in R, then provide time to explore NEON phenology data and resources and discuss additional data sets that may be utilized in downstream analyses.
We're excited to join you at this year's Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting - the first in-person in 3 years! There will be multiple NEON-related events at ESA 2022.
NOTE: This workshop has been postponed until FALL 2022 Intended audience: Open to federal and non-federal participants including funders, scientists, policy-makers and practitioners with interests, expertise, resources and/or capabilities to inform federal CDR research opportunities, partnerships and investments related to air, land, coasts and societal dimensions. More details: Continue checking the US Carbon Program and NACP websites for updates related to this workshop. Workshop Sponsors: DOE FECM, I-CDR-C and CCIWG Learn more: https://www.carboncyclescience.us/news/save-date-us-carbon...
The "Hacking Limnology" Workshop will take place on July 25-27, 2022 13:00-17:00 EST. The 2022 Virtual Summit will take place on July 28-29, 2022 13:00-17:00 EST. Registration for the third annual "Virtual Summit: Incorporating Data Science and Open Science in Aquatic Research" is now open! Registration is free for everyone and will remain open until 27 July, but zoom login information (link, password, etc.) will be emailed on 19 and 27 July. The link to registration can be found here, and the schedule can be found here. The summit is intended to bring together diverse, energetic folks who are...
The Fluxcourse is a two week early-career workshop focused on the foundations of land-atmosphere flux measurement, modeling, and synthesis. NEON staff will be teaching components of Fluxcourse dedicated to working with NEON data, network data synthesis, and using NEON data to inform land-surface models. Applications for Fluxcourse 2022 have closed; if you are interested in attending Fluxcourse 2023, watch http://www.fluxcourse.org/ for applications to open in early 2023.
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.
EREN (Ecological Research as Education Network), Project EDDIE (Environmental Data-Driven Inquiry and Exploration), and NEON are partnering to support a collaborative community of educators and researchers who want to explore new approaches, tools and datasets for their classrooms and research labs that combine the EREN project model with NEON data and EDDIE techniques for teaching data science. Participants in this community are gathering for a series of workshops, talks, and work time with their research groups on the projects we have been developing over the 2021-2022 academic year. Funding...
The meeting will provide opportunities to network, short 10 minute presentations or posters on the state of the field of ecological forecasting, and longer 30 or 60 minute workshops and tutorials that allow the community to teach each other specific tools, skills, perspectives, or an in-depth look at a forecasting project. Registration for talks, posters, and workshops will close on April 25. Registration for participation will close on May 18. May 23-25, 2022 Location: Virtual Time: 11am to 3:30pm US Eastern each day Learn more on the meeting webpage: https://ecoforecast.org/efi-2022...
This workshop is part of the Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 14-20, 2022. View the conference home page here. Workshop: Exploring NEON: Aquatic Instrument Data Date/Time: Sunday, May 15, 1:00 – 5:00 pm Registration Fee: Student/Early Career: $ 15.00 Professional: $ 25.00 Abstract: The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a National Science Foundation funded project designed to collect long-term, open-access data to better understand ecological change at continental scales. NEON includes 34 freshwater aquatic field sites spread across 19 different...
This workshop is part of the Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 14-20, 2022. View the conference home page here. Workshop: Exploring NEON: Biodiversity Data Date/Time: Sunday, May 15, 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Registration Fee: Student/Early Career: $ 15.00 Professional: $ 25.00 Abstract: The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) provides open ecological data from 81 locations across the United States. NEON data cover a wide range of subject areas within ecology, including organismal observations, biogeochemistry, remote sensing, and micrometeorology. This workshop...
Landscape Exchange Network for Socio-Environmental Systems (LENS)
The Landscape Exchange Network for Socio-Environmental Systems (LENS)- a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Coordination Network- is holding a workshop to identify data and methods relevant to socio-environmental systems and connect them to NEON AOP data.
NEON is seeking nominations for its Science, Technology, and Education Advisory Committee. Please consider nominating yourself or a peer by April 15, 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. Submit your nomination today!
Join the Ecological Society of America and NEON scientists to learn how to access NEON data and tools to help you work with it! March 21, 2022, 3PM Eastern Time In this 1-hour online workshop, NEON scientist Claire Lunch will lead all participants through the NEON website and NEON data portal to learn about the online resources and how to download data. Then, all participants will learn how to use the neonUtilities R package to format NEON data into a format that is easier to work with and to download data directly into R. The webinar will feature live instructional delivery with the...
Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS)
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) are accepting proposals through March 16 for the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program. Letters of intent are due by 5pm Pacific Time, March 16, 2022. Successful proposals will have collaborative access to these U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facilities. Capabilities also are available to users through NEON, as well as access to the Bio-SANS beamline at the High Flux Isotope Reactor through the Center for Structural Molecular Biology. Researchers from...
Wednesday, Feb 9, 12pm Pacific Time The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) Call for Proposals accelerates ambitious user projects by providing access to world-class resources at multiple facilities through a single user proposal. This FICUS Call for Proposals provides access to advanced molecular characterization capabilities at the Center for Structural Molecular Biology and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL); state-of-the-art sequencing, synthesis, metabolomics, and data analysis at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI); and continental-scale remote...
A network of educators, researchers, and data managers working to improve educational outcomes by providing STEM undergraduates and instructors with access to environmental data about the changing North, to build ecological knowledge, quantitative literacy, and engagement through inquiry.
This workshop accompanies the AGU Journals Special Collection “Advances in scaling and modeling of land-atmosphere interactions.” This workshop aims to enable attendees to access and jointly work with both extensive network data and intensive experiment data to unveil critical and previously inaccessible aspects of surface atmosphere interactions. This workshop will publicly release the community-developed eddy4R.turb package and solicit community feedback on NEON and CHEESEHEAD19 data product and algorithm development related to surface-atmosphere interactions. Learn more and register today...
Do you want to learn how to access NEON instrument data programmatically, and/or wish to better understand NEON’s quality flagging processes? If so, NEON invites you to register for the Aquatic Instrument Data Workshop at the 2021 AGU Fall Meeting! Sunday December 12; 8:00-11:00 am CST NEON data cover a wide range of subject areas, this virtual workshop focuses on NEON aquatic instrument systems (AIS) data collected continuously from our 34 aquatic sites, including 24 wadable streams, 3 rivers, and 7 lakes. AIS data products span water quality, surface and groundwater elevations, and...
We're excited to join you at this year's American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, which will be held both in person in New Orleans, LA, and online. There will be several NEON-related sessions, talks, and other events at AGU 2021. Please continue to check this space with more updates. 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 11, 2021. All times are Central Standard Time (CST) (UTC-6). Workshops Access & Explore NEON...
View the workshop recording Join us for an intensive one-day, hands-on, remote workshop and learn how to create, use, deploy, and share analyses of NEON AOP data using the CyVerse platform. You will learn how to use the NEON Data API and work with hands-on exercises using AOP remote sensing data in Project Juypter (Python) notebooks. We will also cover basic visualization of NEON AOP data in Google Earth Engine using the Python API. Basic understanding of scientific computer programming languages (e.g., Python, R) and command line tools (bash shell, and version control with GitHub) are useful...
The next workshop installment will be held virtually, Tuesday November 9, beginning at 10 AM MST. Register by Nov 1, 2021 This NCAR-NEON Workshop, the second in the three part series, will focus on the integration of ecological models and observations. The workshop will include a series of plenary talks on ecological modeling, as well as an interactive exploration of a new resource to easily run CLM simulations at NEON tower sites, and breakout discussions focused on catalyzing new avenues of discovery in at the interface of ecology, modeling, and atmospheric science. The most recent workshop...
Several NEON scientists will be participating in the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, 31 Oct - 3 Nov 2021. NEON scientist-led events: Talk: NEON’s invertebrate monitoring efforts - presented by Dr. Sara Paull Wednesday, November 3, 2021 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM MT Workshop: Accessing and Working with NEON Invertebrate Data - led by Dr. Stephanie Parker and Richard Lehrter Sunday, October 31, 2021 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM MT About the meeting: "Entomology 2021 will be a hybrid meeting with both in-person and virtual presentations as part of our scientific program. The Annual...
