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Happy Thanksgiving

November 21, 2017

At NEON, we are all thankful for the opportunity to contribute to the project's mission to gather and synthesize data that could impact ecological research for decades and inspire the next generation of scientists.

Bear Peak in Boulder Colorado

Before and After the Hurricanes: NEON Data for Harvey, Irma and Maria

November 2, 2017

The hurricane season of 2017 has been one for the record books with three major hurricanes making landfall on U.S. states and territories within a four-week period leaving devastating impacts that the research community is just beginning to understand.

Hurricane Maria

Helping our employees in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

October 11, 2017

Battelle employees worked together to help our employees located at various NEON project sites after Hurricane Maria devastated the island of Puerto Rico. Learn more in the Inside Battelle Blog.

Hurricane maria relief in domain 04

Ecological community mourns Henry Gholz

October 2, 2017

We at Battelle are saddened by the unexpected death of our colleague, Henry Gholz, a visiting scientist assisting with the NEON project and someone who supported our larger science community engagement efforts.

Henry Gholz
Data Notification

AOP data on portal

September 14, 2017

A subset of airborne data products are now available for download via the data portal or the NEON API.

Talking bathymetric mapping techniques at the American Fisheries Society Annual meeting

September 12, 2017

In late August, aquatic scientists from around the world descended upon Tampa, Florida to attend the American Fisheries Society (AFS) 2017 annual meeting .

Data Notification

Pausing publication of aspirated air temperature

August 17, 2017

Publishing of aspirated air temperature data will be postponed until further notice to address an implementation flaw that affects the flow rates within the aspirated assembly.

Case Study

Researchers leverage NEON field sites to find out what ants can tell us about changing climates

July 27, 2017

Two biologists from the University of Oklahoma are using NEON field sites to enhance their research.

Neon ants blog square

Kids explore science and technology at NEON for a day

May 4, 2017

Thirty-four children, aged 5-12, participated in the 2017 Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day program. The kids not only were able to see up close where their moms and dads work, but also participate in hands-on activities led by scientists and engineers.

Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day

Announcing our 2017 summer research interns

April 19, 2017

We are excited to be welcoming six undergraduates this summer for the 11-week hands-on program. They will get to work with staff mentors on a wide variety of NEON-related research projects ranging from assisting in the finalization of NEON construction to using the public data provided by the NEON project.

Megan Jones in the field

One fish, two fish, learn how NEON samples fish

April 4, 2017

You won’t find any fishing line, hooks or bobbers in NEON’s aquatic technician field gear. Instead, groups of 3-4 technicians utilize a technique called electrofishing to catch fish and collect data related to fish diversity and populations.

Technicians electrofishing

Beetlemania

March 3, 2017

Studies have found that ground beetles are an excellent indicator species of arthropod biodiversity, environmental change, land use and land management. Learn more about why and how NEON samples beetles.

Pinned Beetles

2017 NEON AOP flight campaign schedule now available

February 24, 2017

We are excited to announce the 2017 flight campaign schedule for NEON’s Airborne Observation Platform. The campaign will run from March to November, covering eighteen NEON domains with forty-three terrestrial sites and twenty-four aquatic sites.

AIO twin otter over a NEON field site

Apply now for NEON’s Data Institute: Remote Sensing and Reproducible Workflows

February 23, 2017

Applications are due March 10, 2017 for the 2017 Data Institute: Remote Sensing with Reproducible Workflows provides a unique opportunity for participants to gain hands-on experience working with open data using well-documented, reproducible methods.

The Catch: NEON Goes Fishing

February 16, 2017

Why sample fish? Not only do fish play a major role in our recreation and food industries, but they are a key part of freshwater aquatic ecosystems. Learn how NEON is collecting fish diversity and population data so researchers can gain a complete picture of the food chain in aquatic ecosystems across the United States.

photo of a fish

NEON’s Great Smoky Mountains data will capture Tennessee fire impacts on local ecology

December 20, 2016

In mid-November a forest fire started in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, sparking several wildfires that spread uncontrollably. Last week, a safety team ventured out to two impacted field sites to assess the damage.

Photos of wildfire damage at GRSM. Associated article "NEON's Great Smoky Mountains Data will capture Tennessee fire impacts on local ecology"

New teaching module for using data to understand ecological disturbances

November 18, 2016

NEON has published its first undergraduate teaching module aimed specifically at faculty wanting to use data in undergraduate classrooms. The free module, available online, allows students to use real-world ecological data to better understand the causes and effects of natural disturbance events like floods.

Flux tower at LENO and TOMB sites

NEON infrastructure now available for research

October 28, 2016

Did you know that in addition to free data, NEON also provides access to its infrastructure for research? Announcing the Assignable Assets program.

Tower at NEON HEAL field site

API and data availability viewer now live on the NEON data portal

October 20, 2016

In response to suggestions from the scientific community, we’ve expedited the production of some new features to the data portal to help you better navigate the data NEON provides! Test out our newly launched prototype Application Programming Interface (API) as well as the compact view data availability page.

Tower with ones and zeros overlaying it

Ameriflux PI meeting: an opportunity for collaboration and engagement

October 11, 2016

Five Battelle scientists, Stefan Metzger, Cove Sturtevant, Hongyan Luo, Natchaya Pingintha-Durden and David Durden along with software engineering manager Greg Holling recently attended the annual Ameriflux PI meeting to present on NEON project progress and talk shop.

Hongyan Luo and Natchaya Pingintha-Durda present on NEON Project progress at Ameriflux PI meeting. Associated article "Ameriflux PI meeting: an opportunity for collaboration and engagement"

Four aquatic sites fully operational with data available

September 29, 2016

In recent months, NEON has successfully outfitted four aquatic sites with a complete suite of sensors including in-stream sensors, groundwater well sensors and meteorological sensors. Observational samples are also being collected by field staff, making these four sites the Observatory’s first fully operational aquatic sites.

Fish sample

Another summer of interns has come and gone

September 27, 2016

Earlier this summer, we bid farewell to six dynamic and brilliant undergraduate interns who worked at NEON for eleven weeks on a variety of cross-disciplinary projects that ranged from data visualization to analysis of different soil sampling methods.

2016 Interns

NSF announces Early NEON Science awards

September 23, 2016

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences has awarded $15.9 million for 12 new MacroSystems Biology and Early NEON Science projects.

macrosystems Biology and Early career science funding advertisement square

Inaugural Data Institute: reproducible remote sensing science using NEON data

September 15, 2016

In mid-June, 23 early career scientists from far and wide descended upon NEON headquarters for a week-long Data Institute. The inaugural Institute featured NEON remote sensing data and focused on...

Data Carpentry Workshop

NSF approves transition to operations of field sampling at 13 more sites

August 4, 2016

In early August, the National Science Foundation (NSF) gave its approval to transition observational sampling to operations at 13 terrestrial field sites bringing the total number of terrestrial sites with observational sampling to 27, representing over 50% of planned sites.

Domain 08 field technician doing observational sampling

Catch up with the NEON project at #ESA2016!

August 3, 2016

This weekend, thousands of scientists will journey to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida for the 101 st annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (#ESA2016) . The theme is“Novel Ecosystems in the Anthropocene,” and the NEON team will be there to talk with scientists about how they plan to use NEON project data in their research and teaching.

stock photo of people meeting

Construction Contractor Earns National Award for NEON flux tower

July 25, 2016

A NEON contractor earned a National Excellence in Construction Eagle Award from the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) earlier this year for constructing a NEON tower at the Lenoir Landing (AL) field site.

The tower at LENO

Fluxcourse Students visit NEON Headquarters

July 20, 2016

One of our summer highlights is the opportunity to host an array of graduate students, postdocs and early career scientists participating in the Fluxcourse for a day at NEON headquarters.

graduate students, postdocs and early career scientists participating in the Fluxcourse. Accompanying article, "Fluxcourse Students visit NEON Headquarters"

NEON partners with DataONE to enhance data discoverability

July 13, 2016

The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), operated by Battelle, has joined the Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) Federation , another NSF-sponsored program to provide more exposure for the research community to NEON data.

50% of NEON’s remote sensing data products now available

July 1, 2016

Two new products have recently been added to NEON’s available suite of airborne remote sensing data: fPAR (fractional Photosynthetically Active Radiation) and LAI (Leaf Area Index) bringing the total count of remote sensing data products to sixteen.

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