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Get involved in citizen science this Earth Day

April 20, 2015

Join thousands of others this spring in making simple plant observations through Project BudBurst. Citizen scientists play an important role in helping researchers determine how seasonal patterns are changing and potentially inform future environmental decisions and education.

Neon TOS scientist looking at plants

2015 NEON Science Capability Assessment: A focus on near-term research opportunities

April 17, 2015

The SCA report represents an effort to assess the research and science opportunities enabled by NEON data and resources.

NEON releases first protocols

April 13, 2015

The first release includes 11 terrestrial protocols as well as our terrestrial science designs. This release of protocols is the first in a series to be shared over the next several months.

Domain 08 field technician doing observational sampling

Work with data series: NEON and Data Carpentry collaborate to support open science skill-building

April 9, 2015

Learn more about open science and NEON's collaboration with Data Carpentry to develop resources and facilitate workshops that support open science skill-building.

Tower with ones and zeros overlaying it

NSF announces Dear Colleague Letter for research using NEON data

April 8, 2015

The NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences is currently considering requests for funding to support conferences and research that leverage NEON data.

GRSM landscape

AOP crew takes flight with new LiDAR system

March 17, 2015

The latest addition to NEON's Airborne Observation Platform is a Twin Otter airplane, retrofitted with a new full waveform and discrete LiDAR system.

Twin Otter arrival at KBDU

NEON data quantifies topographic change caused by 2013 Boulder flood

March 11, 2015

In September 2013, Boulder, CO experienced a seven day storm event and unprecedented rainfall. NEON data collected before and after the flood quanitfy topographic change caused by the storm.

Bear Peak in Boulder Colorado

From the field: winter 2015 aquatic sampling

March 10, 2015

D09 field technicians collect lake water samples year-round; D02 field technicians dig through several inches of ice and snow to access the stream at the Posey Creek. Learn more about winter sampling in the field.

Field ecologists doing ice sampling at a Domain 09 field site
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Dr. Bartuska of the USDA on the importance of long-term ecological datasets

March 5, 2015

Dr. Ann Bartuska, Deputy Under Secretary for Research, Education & Economics of the USDA, highlights the importance of long-term ecological datasets and federal science investment in research infrastructure in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

D06 Prairie Peninsula

National Science Foundation Director, Dr. France Córdova visits NEON

February 26, 2015

Dr. France A. Córdova visited NEON headquarters last Thursday for the first time since assuming her position as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in March 2014.

Rainbow at WREF field site

NEON purchases soil coring machine for more efficient soil sensor installation

February 17, 2015

In an effort to provide standardized and more efficient ways to install soil sensors, NEON recently purchased the first of several soil coring machines to install soil sensors up to three meters deep at all 60 terrestrial sites around the US.

Soil coring machine
Case Study

Researchers introduce macrosystems approach to study stream ecology

January 21, 2015

Kansas State University scientists and collaborators have developed a new method for studying a variety of streams — including tropical, prairie or forested streams — across continents. Walter Dodds has led the researchers in creating the Stream Biome Gradient Concept, which is a way to compare streams in different climates and different continents. The concept can improve how researchers study streams worldwide.

Man looking at stream

Small mammal data are now available

December 10, 2014

NEON is pleased to announce that our first small mammal data have been published on our data portal!

Field mouse in grass

How a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) System works – the newest NEON video

December 10, 2014

Our latest video breaks down how a LiDAR system works. Be sure to check it out.

Attending SACNAS: An Inspiring Experience

November 21, 2014

SACNAS (Society for the Advancement of Hispanic/Chicano and Native Americans in Science) is all about inspiration, and that is why it was such a pleasure to attend the national conference last month in Los Angeles.

Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science Conference 2014

Interns Summer in Review, Part 5: Learning (and teaching) the art of scientific investigations

November 4, 2014

It has been over two years since I was last in the woods of New Hampshire collecting invasive plant data for my undergraduate research. From then to now, I have thought little about data sets or statistical variability.

NEON releases a higher education video on photosynthesis

October 28, 2014

Did you ever wonder how scientists measure photosynthesis? Check out the latest NEON educational video.

Plants at the WOOD field site

Boots on the ground for NEON Member Institution Representatives

October 23, 2014

NEON Member Institution representatives learned about NEON data collection first-hand this week during a visit the Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER), the Domain 10 core site. This site tour was part of the 2014 NEON Membership Meeting, held October 21-22 in Boulder, CO at NEON Headquarters.

Interns Summer in Review, Part 4: So, what do YOU do?

October 17, 2014

After spending time together in NEON’s summer internship program, Ariel Kaluzhny (a computer science student) and Maddy Ball (an environmental science major) learned a lot about their NEON projects, explored a good bit of Colorado and became great friends.

2014 Interns Ariel Kaluzhney and Madeleine Ball

Interns Summer in Review, Part 3: What's an Imaging Science student doing at NEON?

September 29, 2014

NEON is quite the unexpected place for an Imaging Science student to do an internship. NEON is all about Ecology, so where am I supposed to fit in here?

Soil pit at STER

Interns Summer in Review, Part 2: Sharing Across Cultures

September 24, 2014

I come from Bogotá, Colombia where I study Environmental Engineering and Industrial Engineering at the Universidad de los Andes. You might ask, “What’s a student from Colombia doing here?”

Stephanie Cortes Terrestrial Ecology & Tower Instrumentation Intern

Interns Summer in Review, Part 1: From the University to the Field

September 8, 2014

During the 2013 spring semester, I registered for the Surveying for Engineers class at my college. The class was not required for my Environmental Science major, which caused my advisor to question why I would want to take it.

Field technician doing total station monitoring

NEON presents its first higher education video

July 18, 2014

NEON is excited to present its first video in a series of multimedia resources. The Story of LiDAR Data provides a general overview of LiDAR data and highlights how LiDAR data is used to measure structural characteristics of trees.

AIO twin otter over a NEON field site

Celebrating PODS packed full of sensor equipment

June 30, 2014

NEON staff celebrate a major accomplishment as four PODs full of sensor equipment ship off to Blandy (D2), Disney (D3), Jones (D3) and Jornada (D14) this week, which marks the beginning of phase three sensor installation for those sites.

Group photo of NEON HQ staff

Summer Internship Program Kicks Off

June 18, 2014

NEON is pleased to welcome its second cohort of summer interns! This year, seven interns join NEON mentor teams to analyze preliminary AOP, aquatic, and terrestrial data, code algorithms to automate image and data processing, and explore citizen science data for early trends. It promises to be an exciting summer.

2014 NEON interns at Mesa Lab

Spring Training in Florida

May 21, 2014

When you pull up nutrient data for soil cores from across the United States, remember this: They were collected by our hardy and conscientious field technicians.

NEON Hosts Congressman Jared Polis on Earth Day

April 24, 2014

Congressman Jared Polis toured NEON headquarters, heard short presentations and participated in a town hall discussion with NEON staff on Earth Day, April 22, 2014.

Jared Polis Views LiDAR data on a site tour

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.

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