In this workshop, EREN partners with NEON and Project EDDIE (Environmental Data-Driven Inquiry & Exploration) to support undergraduate faculty in integrating large ecological datasets into their teaching and research programs. "The mission of the Ecological Research as Education Network (EREN) is to facilitate collaborative ecological research projects involving undergraduate students and faculty across a wide geographic network and to leverage these projects to enhance student learning while contributing to ecological science. NEON and Project EDDIE are natural partners with this effort: NEON...
NEON scientists will be hosting a workshop on Big [Ecological] Data for the DSOS & AEMON-J virtual workshop and summit: Incorporating Data Science and Open Science in Aquatic Research.
NEON will be participating in the 2021 meeting of the Ecological Forecasting Initiative Research Coordination Network. This 2-day meeting will focus on developing and/or improving educational materials for ecological forecasting. Although not limited to, we hope these educational materials will leverage and be informed by forecasts submitted to the EFI RCN NEON Ecological Forecast Challenge. We will specifically focus on ways members of the EFI community can incorporate the production of educational resources into forecasts they inform, produce, or already use.
The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
Join NEON for a virtual workshop June 14-17, 2021! 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. View a recording of Day 1: Workshop Instructors Claire Lunch; Research Scientist, Data Science; NEON program, Battelle. Twitter: @dr_lunch Marie Faust...
The Ecological Forecasting Initiative Student Association (EFISA) is hosting an Early Career meeting on June 14-15. This 2-day meeting will focus on enabling early career (undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs) scientists to participate in ecological forecasting. We will specifically focus on enabling early career scientists to participate in the EFI RCN NEON Ecological Forecast Challenge by providing skills-based workshops that teach fundamental and applied skills for forecasting, as well as highlighting forecasts in development by students and early-career researchers for...
Florida Museum of Natural History, iDigBio, Natural Science Collections Alliance
NEON scientists will present at the fifth annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, hosted virtually by the Florida Museum of Natural History, iDigBio, and the Natural Science Collections Alliance.
NEON will be participating in an NSF-sponsored virtual workshop: "Complex Landscapes at Scale: Integrating our Understanding of Managed and Unmanaged Lands at Regional to Continental Scales." The workshop will identify ways to advance our understanding of managed and unmanaged lands at regional to continental scales by leveraging resources of NEON, the Long-term Agroecosystem Research Network (LTAR), and other networks with long-term managed and natural ecosystems including the Long-term Ecological Research Network (LTER) and Critical Zone Observatories (CZO). Workshop dates: 6 sessions, May...
This workshop is part of the 2021 Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) Virtual Meeting. It will provide an overview of the various NEON Aquatic Observation System (AOS) data systems.
This workshop is part of the 2021 Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) Virtual Meeting. It will provide an overview of the various NEON Aquatic Instrument System (AIS) data systems.
NEON staff are participating in a virtual workshop hosted by Knowinnovation and supported by the National Science Foundation to generate creative strategies and new research collaborations aimed at improving understanding of different types of fires across temporal and spatial scales, predicting feedbacks between wildfire and living systems, and improving the representation of biological processes in models. The 5-day virtual Innovation Lab will take place May 17-19, May 21, and May 26, 2021. Applications were solicited from PI-level researchers — biologists (molecular to global scale)...
NEON staff will participate in the 7th Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) Science Team Meeting (ASTM7) being held virtually May 11th & 13th, 2021. The sessions will focus on plans for the field season and airborne remote sensing, presentations from partner organizations, updates from the Working Group leads, and reports from the ongoing Synthesis Activities.
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.
