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White House Climate Data Initiative Addresses Climate Change Through Open Data

April 9, 2014

On March 19, 2014, the White House launched the Climate Data Initiative (CDI), part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan launched in June 2013. The Climate Action Plan is the Administration's blueprint for domestic and international efforts to prepare for the impacts of climate change and reduce carbon emissions. The CDI is meant to spur the innovative use of open machine-readable government data to help communities deal with the impacts of climate change.

Case Study

Integrating research networks to study global change

March 28, 2014

Understanding and predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems is a compelling frontier in ecological research, write the authors of a synthesis paper in the March 2014 issue of Ecosphere .

Globe for design page

Dear future NEON data users: Thanks for your input!

March 7, 2014

We want to know what you, future users of NEON data, are looking for when you search for and download data.

North American Soils Analysis Yields New Research Guidelines and Continental-Scale Patterns

February 5, 2014

Just as most of an iceberg stays hidden under the surface of the ocean, many of the most important ecosystem processes happen underfoot. Soil properties, processes and organisms play key roles in everything from climate change to crop growth to clean water and natural disasters.

Soil Samples

In LiDAR magazine this month: remote sensing multi-tasking

January 30, 2014

The latest issue of LiDAR magazine features NEON's remote sensing data collection program.

From field notebooks to rack servers

November 15, 2013

Ecology as a science comes from a tradition of what I like to call "nerdy explorers."

Field technician with muddy boots

Underground biomass: Getting to the root of it

October 29, 2013

One of NEON's goals is to monitor carbon cycling at all its terrestrial sites. Gaining an enhanced understanding of the movement of carbon between the atmosphere, vegetation, and soils may help us better understand and predict ecosystem responses to changing conditions like increased carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning.

Soil pit

NEON Scientist Honored by German Meteorological Society

October 8, 2013

NEON scientist Dr. Stefan Metzger received the 2013 Young Scientist Award from the German Meteorological Society at the DACH conference of German, Austrian and Swiss meteorologists in Innsbruck, Austria, on September 3. The award is presented every three years for outstanding developments and achievements across all fields of meteorology.

Photo of Stefan Metzger, as seen in article "Featured Expert: Dr. Stefan Metzger"

Joint European-U.S. Observatory Planning Continues at NEON

October 2, 2013

The second annual COOPEUS (COOPeration EU and U.S.) strategic planning meeting was held at NEON last week in order to continue the development of joint harmonization and interoperability between partner observatories in the U.S. and Europe.

NEON Signs MOU With CzechGlobe

September 27, 2013

Members of CzechGlobe visited NEON Headquarters in September to sign the MOU and conduct further planning.

Learning is a two-way street

September 9, 2013

Internship programs are all about learning – learning your discipline; learning about work environments and careers; about time management and teamwork; about yourself.

Ecologically-Friendly Construction at a Continental Scale

September 1, 2013

One key requirement for NEON site construction is that construction activities have zero impact on the surrounding ecosystem – because any disturbance interferes with NEON’s ability to capture a true baseline for U.S. ecology.

Citizen Science Then and Now

August 19, 2013

In the latest issue of American Scientist, NEON Citizen Science Director Sandra Henderson and Chicago Botanic Garden Senior Scientist Kayri Havens describe the evolution of the six-year-old NEON citizen science program Project Budburst and tie it back to its historic roots in the observations recorded by naturalists and amateur scientists of centuries past.

citizen science

A field day for interns

July 17, 2013

Seeing how much planning and constant attention (sampling) must go in to the construction and operation of a single site, not even a single domain

NEON Collaborates with EcoSIS Team on New Spectral Data Resource

July 15, 2013

A team of researchers led by Phil Townsend at the University of Wisconsin recently received NASA funding to prototype a new public repository for

NEON and ICOS Sign Interoperability and Collaboration Agreement

July 8, 2013

NEON and the Integrated Carbon Observing System (ICOS) Ecosystem Thematic Center (ETC) signed a memorandum of understanding in mid-June 2013. This MOU

NEON and NASA Team up at the Frontier of Remote Sensing in Ecology

June 21, 2013

The NEON Airborne Observation Platform (AOP) team and a crowd of researchers from several different U.S. institutions joined forces in the Sierra

Life in the Pits

June 10, 2013

by Derek Smith and Josh RobertiTwo Associate Scientists at NEON reflect upon finding themselves in a seven foot deep hole.Josh: As a meteorology

Field technician in snow pIt

NSF Releases Video on NEON/CSU Wildfire Study

June 10, 2013

One year after the devastating High Park Fire, the National Science Foundation has released a video documenting the first round of airborne and ground

NEON and TERN Sign Interoperability and Collaboration Agreement

May 24, 2013

NEON and the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) signed a memorandum of understanding in mid-May 2013. The MOU is a written agreement to

An engineer and a scientist walks into a lab ...

April 17, 2013

By Janae Csavina My job as the Quality Assurance/Quality Control Scientist in the Calibration, Validation and Audit Laboratory (CVAL) at the NEON

Janae Csavina manages the Calibration, Validation and Audit Laboratory (CVAL) for the NEON project

Health diagnostics for the planet

April 2, 2013

A couple of weeks ago, my wife took our daughter to the doctor. After he had heard the symptoms my daughter had been experiencing, the doctor

Groundwork in the snow for measurements in the wind

March 21, 2013

It was January 2013 in Toolik, Alaska, about 160 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and the temperature was minus 35 degrees Fahrenheit. Jeff Taylor

Tracking isotopes to illuminate Nature's grand recycling program

January 22, 2013

By David Hoekmandead zones in marine systems far from the original field. Before becoming the insect ecologist at NEON, I worked on a projectMývatn –

Bridging the Data Divide Down Under

December 11, 2012

Scientists of the future may be able to compare the spread of invasive species in the northeastern U.S. with invasive species proliferation throughout

Combining Data with Models to Bring Continental Scale to Ecology

December 4, 2012

By Sandra Chung It’s July 2012, and NEON Data Products Scientist Andy Fox is teaching summer school 9,500 feet above sea level. He is explaining data

A NEON postcard from the Arctic to the New York Times

November 26, 2012

The New York Times Dot Earth blog featured a "Postcard" from our very own scientists and blog contributors Jeff Taylor and Mike SanClements. As you

Pipeline near toolik field site

The NEON Mobile Deployment Platform: Help Design a Tool to Advance Your Research

November 15, 2012

Wildfire, floods, drought and insect outbreaks. These and other disturbances all have the potential to affect ecosystem health and function and alter

MDP set upSquare

Samples, Shoots and Leaves at Harvard Forest

October 31, 2012

terrestrial ecologists and the Airborne Observation Platform (AOP). The combined ground- and airborne-based efforts will create one of NEON’s first

Big Data Part III: Other People's Data

October 4, 2012

One afternoon in March 2012, a casually dressed crowd of more than 60 researchers crammed themselves into the largest room at NEON headquarters in

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