NEON in the News

2023

• Penn State News, March 23, 2023
  Habitat will dictate whether ground beetles win or lose against climate change

• ASU News, March 22, 2023
  A range of discovery: 120 years on the Santa Rita Experimental Range

• NASA, March 7, 2023
  NASA To Measure Forest Health from Above

• Oregon Public Broadcasting, March 4, 2023
  Soil moisture key to capturing carbon, study finds

• Farm Progress, February 21, 2023
  Moisture the key to carbon in soils

• Nature World News, February 13, 2023
  Moisture Is an Important Regulator and Sequestrant of Soil Carbon Stocks

• Oregon State University News, February 13, 2023
  Moisture the key to soils’ ability to sequester carbon, Oregon State research shows

• Environmental News Network, February 9, 2023
  Unearthing the Impact of Moisture on Soil Carbon Processes

• MSU Today, January 17, 2023
  Data-driven bird conservation project takes wing

2022

• Fronteras, December 15, 2022
  Mistletoe isn't limited to snowy landscapes — Arizona has some of its own

• University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 12, 2022
  NSF climate change project measures the signals in the soil

• ExecutiveBiz, November 17, 2022
  Google Public Sector, Battelle NEON Seek to Advance Ecological Research With Cloud, Computing Tools

• The Scientist, November 3, 2022
  As Carbon Dioxide Goes Up, Plants’ Nutrient Content Declines

• The University of Utah, October 26, 2022
  Sage sensors monitor environment, support ‘edge AI’

• UMaine News, October 6, 2022
  Olsen to study effects of mineral weathering on tropical forest productivity

• NASA Earth Observatory, Notes From The Field, August 31, 2022
  Return to Utqiagvik

• Down To Earth, August 24, 2022
  Nitrogen-fixing plants are more diverse in arid environments; but will they survive climate change?

• Florida Museum, August 23, 2022
  Plants that pull nitrogen from thin air thrive in arid environments

• CU Earth Lab, August 4, 2022
  Sensors and Sunlight: How We Can Identify Plant Species From Space

• University of Alaska Fairbanks, August 2, 2022
  Toolik Field Station receives another five years’ funding

• Newswise, July 26, 2022
  New Sensing Platform Deployed at Controlled Burn Site, Could Help Prevent Forest Fires

• NASA Earth Observatory, July 14, 2022
  Spring Greening in the Arctic Tundra

• National Science Foundation, July 11, 2022
  New NSF center will advance, broaden and catalyze environmental data science

• CU Boulder Today, June 14, 2022
  Classroom in the sky: CU’s 10,000-foot Mountain Research Station turns 100

• Cosmos Magazine, May 20, 2022
  Can we monitor plant biodiversity from space?

• Thinking Port, May 19, 2022
  Satellite monitoring of biodiversity moves within reach

• University of Zurich, May 19, 2022 - press release
  Satellite monitoring of biodiversity moves within reach

• AZO Cleantech, May 11, 2022
  Microbial Responses to Climate Change in Three Major Ecosystems

• Pest Management Professional, April 21, 2022
  2 new species of beetles identified in Hawaii

• The Delaware Gazette, April 21, 2022
  Ohio Wesleyan professor earns teaching award

• Global Plant Protection News, April 13, 2022
  Hawai'i: Two new carabids identified

• Science Friday, March 25, 2022
  Why Climate Change May Bring More West Nile Virus To The U.S.

• Grand Forks Herald, January 10, 2022
  Century-old ranchland study yields new data on climate change, evolution of North Dakota's native prairie

• Virginia Tech, January 7, 2022
  Fewer ticks, cleaner water, and more carbon intake: Fellowship recipient Quinn Thomas plans to use data to predict our environment

2021

• Sierra Resource Conservation District, December 20, 2021
  Hidden Gem: San Joaquin Experimental Range In Collaboration With NEON

• Woodwell Climate Research Center, December 7, 2021
  Introducing the Open Soil Spectral Library

• FOX47, November 29, 2021
  Trees absorb carbon dioxide. An MSU professor wants to find out which trees absorb the most

• Science Magazine, November 18, 2021
  Getting the big picture of biodiversity: Satellites and other remote sensing tools offer new ways to study ecosystems—and maybe even save them

• Emory News Center, November 9, 2021
  Research roundup: Recent grants and publications for Emory faculty and staff

• The Lantern, October 27, 2021
  Ohio State receives $15 million NSF grant for imageomics institute

• The Fence Post, October 22, 2021
  Husker ecologists forge international network focused on ag, climate resilience

• The State Press, October 20, 2021
  Popularizing Biophilia

• ASU News, October 12, 2021
  A deep dive through time to study changing ecosystems

• Tulane News, October 11, 2021
  Tulane professor part of $15 million institute to establish field of imageomics

• Florida Museum, August 16, 2021
  Cities are making mammals bigger

• National Geographic, August 12, 2021
  Does Smokey Bear need a makeover to prevent more wildfires?

• University of Notre Dame, July 26, 2021
  Researchers across the US will support NSF Major Facilities in their data lifecycle management efforts through new NSF-funded center of excellence

• The Gardner News, June 29, 2021
  These local students engaged in their own scientific method

• Eos - Science News by AGU, June 28, 2021
  NEON Lights a Path for Sustained Ecological Observations

• UCF Today, June 16, 2021
  From Pet Store Employee to International Conservation Biology Research Pioneer

• Forbes, May 25, 2021
  This Scientist Is Determined To Get Women Juiced About STEM Careers

• UC Santa Cruz Newscenter, May 19, 2021
  Missing in the middle: the importance of regional-scale field research

• The Brink, May 5, 2021
  Why Scientists Want to Solve an Underground Mystery about Where Microbes Live

• Newsbreak, April 22, 2021
  This South Dakota Scientist Is Devoted To Making STEM Cool, Especially For Women And Girls

• The Washington Post, April 20, 2021
  Along the Chesapeake Bay, Smithsonian scientists research at a vast outdoor laboratory

• GreenBiz, March 31, 2021
  Citizen scientists are filling research gaps created by the pandemic

• Forbes, March 24, 2021
  Boulder, Colorado Has A Lot Of Weather And Climate Experts - Here’s Why

• Microbioz India, March 17, 2021
  Hyperspectral Sensor for High-Resolution Chlorophyll Fluorescence Measurements

• Rensselaer News, March 16, 2021 - press release
  Are Lakes Emitting More Carbon Dioxide in a Warming World?

• The Daily Times, February 20, 2021
  Scientist share research from Great Smoky Mountains National Park online March 4

• Nebraska Today, February 18, 2021
  Husker team leading $6M project to study waterways’ changing ecology

• The Conversation, February 3, 2021
  Citizen scientists are filling research gaps created by the pandemic

• NASA Earth Observatory, February 3, 2021
  Snowmelt Timing Near the Great Salt Lake

2020

• Photonics Media, December 30, 2020
  Grants Support RIT Imaging Scientists in Waveform Lidar, Remote Sensing Projects

• Virginia Tech Daily, December 1, 2020 - press release
  Confronting ecological change takes a collaborative leap with the NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge

• The Sun Gazette, November 25, 2020
  Garden ‘Makes A Difference’ in community

• Phone World, November 25, 2020
  What is Lidar & its Applications? How does it work?

• University of Arizona News, November 20, 2020
  Hotter and Drier With a Chance of Extinction: Forecasting Biodiversity With Big Data

• University of Minnesota Cloquet Forestry Center, November 3, 2020
  The highs and lows of cone production in white spruce

• UMass Amherst News and Media Relations, October 27, 2020 - press release
  UMass Amherst's Blanchard Lab Leads National Soil Microbiome Investigation

• The State Press, October 26, 2020
  Renovations made at ASU's Alameda building will help house biocollections

• Bloomberg, October 13, 2020
  NASA to Fund Study of Tree Canopy Impact on Remote Sensing Measurements

• Baylor University, September 24, 2020 - press release
  New Way of Analyzing Soil Organic Matter Will Help Predict Climate Change, Baylor University Researcher Says

• The Roanoke Star, September 21, 2020
  Roanoke Drinking Water Ensured By Experts Who Forecast Health of Lakes and Reservoirs

• The Conversation, September 18, 2020
  Humans ignite almost every wildfire that threatens homes

• The Ada News, September 8, 2020
  Oka' announces full program for 2020 virtual conference

• University of Michigan News, September 3, 2020
  U of M awarded $12.5 million to create new institute to further understanding of the impact of biodiversity change on Earth 

• Digital Trends, September 1, 2020
  Uncovering nature's biggest secrets with a $460M, continent-scale observatory

• EurekAlert, August 27, 2020 - press release
  CSU's Kyle Horton leads $1 million NSF project to study migratory birds and bats

• NAU News, August 27, 2020 - press release
  NAU awarded $1.5 million grant to examine how natural systems might adapt to increasing temperatures and invasive species

• Advancing Science, August 11, 2020
  Ohio Wesleyan Awarded National Science Foundation Grant to Create Teaching Tools

• Powell Tribune, July 30, 2020
  Chasing microfauna: Scientists and volunteers study Yellowstone insects and plants, looking for clues of climate change

2019

• Science, August 29, 2019
  NSF’s huge ecological observatory is open for business. But tensions remain
   
• 2KTUU, August 27, 2019
  Science has good and bad news for the future of wildfires
   
• ScienceDaily, August 12, 2019
  Forecasting for climate change, land-use, and invasive species -- NSF grant

• 9news.com, June 27, 2019
  Detailed maps of wildfires may lead to better understanding of fire behavior

• Daily Camera, June 1, 2019
  Monitoring changing world at CU Boulder’s Mountain Research Station

• India-West, May 17, 2019
  DePaul University Indian American Researcher Bala Chaudhary Receives NSF CAREER Grant to Study Dispersal of Mycorrhizal Fungi

• ASU Now, April 2, 2019
  Volunteers explore passions at rapidly growing ASU Natural History Collections facility

• The Hill, March 29, 2019
  America's 2019 harvest is already in trouble

• Biobanking.com, March 28, 2019
  NEON Biorepository Helped Reveal The Role Of Deep Soil In Carbon Storage

• Biospace, March 5, 2019
  Data from National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Helps Unlock the Role of Deep Soil in Carbon

• Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, March 1, 2019
  NEON scientist: a new career choice in ecology

2018

• Down to Earth, November 29, 2018
  ‘Agriculture and consumer choices are driving disastrous climate change’

• Down to Earth, November 28, 2018
  Six feet under: A quarter of Earth's carbon may be buried beneath surface, finds study

• The Conway Daily Sun, October 22, 2018
  Shaheen tours data site at Bartlett Experimental Forest

• Michigan State University - AgBioResearch News, Sept 12, 2018
  Big data scientists are more effective when they work together and share data

• KTVZ.com, August 30, 2018
  OSU, Utah to estimate U.S. plant transpiration

• KATC.com, August 30, 2018
  UL researcher wants to know what happens to waterways with no water

• Phys.org, August 29, 2018
  Peat expansion in the Arctic tundra could play a role in cooling a warming planet

• Yale News, August 29, 2018
  Carla Staver wins $1 million grant for global wildfire modeling research

• GovTech.com, August 24, 2018
  Lidar Data Is Becoming an Increasingly Valuable Tool for Cities

• National Science Foundation, News Release, August 29, 2018
  NSF funds new projects to ‘connect dots’ (and data) to address longstanding, multi-scaled environmental problems

• ASUNow, August 22, 2018
  ASU receives multimillion grant from NSF to create a national biorepository

• MassLive, June 13, 2018
  UMass Medical Zoology lab adds mosquitoes to testing repertoire

• Denver Business Journal, June 4, 2018
  International Science Group Looks to National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) as Example of What’s Working in Global Research Infrastructure

• Geospatial World, May 31, 2018
  Did you know which are the sources for free LiDAR data?

• AppalachianToday, April 30, 2018
  Macrosystems Biology, Early NEON Science grant supports biodiversity mapping in eastern US

• Utah Public Radio (UPR), April 3, 2018
  Local Efforts to Improve Public Ecological Observatory Network

• Science, February 16, 2018
  Massive U.S. ecological observatory gets new director

• Daily Camera, February 8, 2018
  Sharon Collinge, CU professor, given leadership role at National Ecological Observatory Network

• Smithsonian Magazine (online), January 31, 2018
  Can scientists forecast algal blooms and pest outbreaks like we do the weather?

2017

• National Science Foundation, News Release, August 10, 2017
  10 new awards support ecological research at regional to continental scales

• Bismark Tribune, July 27, 2017
  Public climate data projects offers measurements online

• Explore Big Sky newspaper, July 9, 2017
  National ecology project proposed in Yellowstone

• Island Conservation, July 6, 2017
  Long-term climate research to take place in Hawai'i'

• Green Valley News, May 2017
  Ecological study about to launch at experimental range

2016

• DataONE News, Fall 2016
  Member Node Description, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)

• National Science Foundation, News Release, September 22, 2016
  NSF awards $15.9 million to foster new understanding of biological systems on regional to continental scales

• Nature, January 21, 2016
  Ecology Aims High

2015

• Smithsonian Zoogoer Magazine, Global Game Changer, Autumn 2015

2013

• Smithsonian Magazine, August 2013
  A Scientific Laboratory 170 Feet High in the Sky

• Engineering News-Record, August 21, 2013
  Reaching Zero: The Realities of Ecologically-friendly Engineering on a Continental Scale

• Yahoo! News / Live Science, April 22, 2013
  How's Earth's Health? New Network to Keep Tabs

• Desert News, April 18, 2013
  National ecology study described as cutting edge, groundbreaking

2012

• CNN Online, November 29, 2012
  Mapping a Forest Fire in Infinitesimal Detail

• New York Times Dot Earth, November 23, 2012
  Creating a Vital Long View for Gauging Environmental Change

• Rocky Mountain Collegian, September 4, 2012
  Warner sees High Park Fire area in NEON vision

• Fort Collins Coloradoan, September 4, 2012
  High Park Fire still impacting water, economy

• The Nashua Telegraph, September 4, 2012
  NH site key part of forest project

• The Atlantic, August 31, 2012
  A Continental Network to Monitor How We're Trashing the Environment

• Seattle Public Radio: The Conversation, August 27, 2012
  A 30–Year Plan To Study America's Ecology Interview starts at 6:20

• The Economist, August 25, 2012
  NEON light: A 30-year plan to study America’s ecology is about to begin

• Denver Post, August 22, 2012
  CSU to take a 3-D look at cause and restoration of High Park Fire

• Boulder Daily Camera, August 22, 2012
  Boulder's NEON using airborne instruments to map High Park burn zone

• Aspen Public Radio, August 22, 2012
  New maps of High Park Fire could help with mitigation

• PBS' Innovation Trail (New York Now) reports on NEON remote sensing
  and RIT ground validation activities at Harvard Forest, MA, August 20, 2012

• BioScience, August 8, 2012
  NEON Breaks Ground

• Aspen Public Radio, July 31, 2012
  Observatory will track climate change