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Battelle Names Paula Mabee as Chief Scientist and Observatory Director for National Ecological Observatory Network

December 12, 2019

Paula Mabee, the Nolop Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of South Dakota, has been selected as the Chief Scientist and Observatory Director of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).

Paula Mabee
Case Study

Looking for Missing Carbon in the Forest Canopy

December 11, 2019

Kyla Dahlin and her team are using Airborne Remote Sensing data from five NEON sites to develop detailed 3D maps of forest structure. Their work, which was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), could provide new insights into the carbon storage potential of forests.

Trees at MLBS
Case Study

Studying Relationships Between Forest Structure and Bird Biodiversity

December 6, 2019

Land use changes and habitat loss have resulted in an overall loss of biodiversity across much of the country. Luis Carrasco, a post-doctoral fellow at NIMBioS, is leveraging NEON data to better understand the relationships between vegetation structure and density and bird biodiversity in forested ecosystems.

Sunlight through the trees at the ABBY field site
Data Notification

neonUtilities 1.3.2 now available on CRAN

December 4, 2019

neonUtilities 1.3.2 is now available on CRAN! There are several updates in this version, primarily around improving performance and retaining more complete metadata from the original download.

Data Notification

Microbial Community Composition Data Products Being Reprocessed

December 3, 2019

Microbial community composition data products for all data analyzed after Jan 1, 2016 had an issue with the sequence data processing pipeline. This issue is causing the resulting community composition data to consist of very few counts and lower than expected diversity. We are in the process of evaluating the extent of the issue.

Case Study

How a Tree’s Life can Change an Ecosystem: Plant Phenology, Gypsy Moths, and Heat Accumulation

November 20, 2019

Imagine walking through the deciduous forests in Massachusetts early one spring, a gentle rain falling down on you. Taking a closer look, you now see thousands of hairy caterpillars in the trees.

Gypsy moth caterpillar eating leaves
Data Notification

Surface water and groundwater elevation data improvements

November 18, 2019

To date, all NEON groundwater and surface water elevation data has had high uncertainty due to unstable survey reference points and delays in reporting field-based sensor position adjustments. In-the-field infrastructure upgrades will improve NEON water elevation data products at many aquatic sites.

Data Notification

Aquatic instrument data product corrections

November 18, 2019

Recent updates in the algorithms that generate some of our aquatic instrument data will improve published data products by fixing erroneous data.

Looking for fieldwork experience in ecology? Work for NEON

November 14, 2019

It's that time again. Each year, NEON hires hundreds of temporary field scientists to assist our full-time field operations staff with observational sampling.

Technicians electrofishing
Data Notification

Issues with infrared gas analyzer pressure data stream mapping

November 13, 2019

We have identified issues with infrared gas analyzer pressure data stream mapping processed through October 28, 2019 (irrespective of data collect date) and are working to resolve them.

Data Notification

Occasional high soil moisture values

November 13, 2019

We recently discovered that unreasonably high soil moistures are sometimes being reported in the soil water content and salinity data product (DP1.00094.001) at many terrestrial sites.

Case Study

Introducing Adlafia neoniana: A New Species Named for NEON

November 7, 2019

Adlafia neoniana (Naviculaceae) may be tiny, but it's got a big name to live up to. It's the first new species to be discovered on a NEON field site and named after the NEON program. So what is this newly discovered organism? A single-celled aquatic alga with a cell wall made of silica, known as a diatom.

Adlafia neoniana

A Remote Sensing Partnership Made in Paradise

November 1, 2019

A new partnership with the Arizona State University Global Airborne Observatory (ASU-GAO) will make more frequent airborne observations possible of NEON's Hawaii field site in the Pu`u Maka`ala Natural Area Reserve. The GAO team completed their first flyover of PUUM in January 2019, and these data are now available.

View of the canopy from the PUUM tower
Case Study

Understanding the Drivers of Community Assembly

October 29, 2019

The exact composition of each local community is influenced by variables that include evolutionary history, current climate and interspecies competition or codependence. A new study led by Will Pearse of Utah State University is using NEON data to quantify the roles of these different variables in the assembly of ecological communities.

Cactus in the field
Data Notification

Temporary removal of foliar trace element data

October 16, 2019

We have recently removed sunlit plant foliage major, minor, and trace element data (DP1.10026.001, cfc_elements table) collected in 2017 and 2018 from the portal.

Case Study

A Mouse is a Mouse is a Mouse? Guess Again

October 16, 2019

Michael Cramer, a small mammal researcher and the Assistant Director of the University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center (UNDERC), has spent much of his career studying the ecology and behavior of mice and other small mammals. His latest research leverages NEON data to document how mouse populations are changing over time—and how these small fries may be changing the ecosystems around them.

Selfie with a mouse

Building Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Environmental Data Science

October 9, 2019

The environment impacts every single one of us. But historically, we haven't all had equal opportunity to be involved in the data collection and analysis that informs our understanding of the environment and drives environmental policy. That's why Battelle and the NEON program teamed up with QUBES and 11 other partners for a three-day conference in Boulder, Colorado in April 2019.

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Calling Ecology Nerds and Data Wizards: NEON Science Summit

October 3, 2019

On October 15-17, more than 150 ecologists, earth scientists, data analysts and programmers will descend on Boulder, CO for the NEON Science Summit . While the "unconference" is sold out, those interested in exploring ideas for using NEON data can still participate remotely.

NEONscience summit 2019

Going Out on a Limb with a New Canopy Sampling Method

September 27, 2019

Collecting leaf (foliar) samples from the top of the forest canopy can be difficult and dangerous work. But NEON field teams may soon have an easier way to snip samples with the help of a drone equipped with a robotic sampling device. In July, the Pacific Northwest team tested drone technology from DeLeaves to collect foliar canopy samples at NEON’s terrestrial field site in the Wind River Experimental Forest (WREF), Washington.

Drone takes off into the trees at WREF
Spotlight

Citizen Scientists Extend Beetle Research at Yellowstone

September 20, 2019

What can a ground beetle tell us about the environment? Quite a lot! This diverse and ubiquitous family of insects provides a window into environmental health and change. Erik Oberg, a biologist at Yellowstone National Park, is leading an ambitious beetle-biodiversity initiative on the Northern Range of the park.

White Tiger Beetle, Cicindelahae morrhagica
Case Study

Digging Up the Dirt on Soil Organic Matter

September 6, 2019

How are ecosystems across the continent changing over time? What are the relationships between climate, ecosystem composition and soil organic matter? And how are soil composition and carbon storage potential likely to change in the future? The answers lie under our feet.

Soil Samples

Seeking scientists, engineers and data experts to advise on the NEON project

August 21, 2019

Interested in ensuring that the National Ecological Observatory Network is a valuable resource for your research? Consider joining a NEON advisory group and help shape NEON science and data.

stock photo of people meeting
Data Notification

Site Management and Event Reporting Data Product Release

August 12, 2019

NEON staff have been collecting data on stochastic disturbances and site management activities observed at all aquatic and terrestrial NEON sites and have just released this information as a new data product, Site Management and Event Reporting.

Case Study

Students Test Ecology Concepts With NEON Data

July 17, 2019

It's one thing to read about ecological concepts in a textbook. It's another to see them revealed by real-world data. Students at Ball State University recently explored key ecological concepts using data from the NEON program.

Mouse
Case Study

What's All This Dew Doing? Maybe More Than You Think.

July 10, 2019

A new study led by François Ritter, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois–Chicago Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, provides important insights into the frequency of dew formation across the U.S.

Dew on tree branch
Case Study

Answering Burning Questions About Wildfire Fuel and Emissions

May 15, 2019

A new study funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Rapid Response to Funding (RAPID) Grant program attempts to answer critical questions about the correlations between biomass burned from wildfires and the emitted quantities of trace gases and aerosols.

Wildfire on ridge

Next Steps - Maximizing the Potential of NEON: A Message from Gene Kelly

May 8, 2019

Hello again. Over the last few months I have been back at NEON working/consulting with Battelle and the staff here in Boulder, Colorado as the observatory moves into full operations. So I am once again back on the “Inside Looking Out.”

Eugene Kelly

Science Takes Flight at the Pu‘u Maka‘ala Field Site

May 6, 2019

Tucked away in Hawai‘i's Pu‘u Maka‘ala Natural Area Reserve (NAR), NEON's final field site will transition from construction to operations this spring. It joins monitoring and conservation efforts already underway in this unique pacific tropical ecosystem. NEON data will support these efforts and give researchers new insight into how the climate and ecosystem are changing in the mountains of Hawai‘i.

Male akiapolaau bird at PUUM

How can we better predict life in the Earth system? Linking the geosciences and ecology

May 2, 2019

Attendees of a recent NSF-sponsored joint NCAR and NEON workshop, Predicting life in the Earth system – linking the geosciences and ecology identify some tangible synergies and paths forward to advance the capability of Earth system prediction to include terrestrial ecosystems and biological resources.

North America from space

Getting to Know the NEON Domains: Atlantic Neotropical

April 26, 2019

The first year of full operations in Puerto Rico was a rough one. Just as the field sites were coming online for the first time, Hurricane Maria dealt the island a devastating blow. Now, NEON is helping researchers monitor the aftereffects as well as other changes in this vibrant and fascinating ecoclimate domain.

DFIR at GUAN

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