2019 ESA/USSEE Joint Meeting

We're excited to see you at this year's Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting. There will be over 40 NEON-related events at ESA 2019.

The NEON program exhibit booth is located at #215-217, right next to the Data Help Desk, so please stop by to get a demo of our data portal, ask questions and to grab a LUV DATA or OPEN DATA sticker (or both).

NEON-related Events at ESA

Please note we will add more NEON-related events as they are announced. This list was last updated on July 31, 2019

Sunday, August 11, 2019

Access and Work with NEON Data Workshop 
Organizer: Claire Lunch  
Time: Sunday 12-5 

Register in advance to attend this limited space workshop that will guide you through the basics of NEON data access in R, then provide time to explore analyses of your choice while NEON instructors are available. Find out more on the workshop page. 

Monday, August 12, 2019

SS 2: Biodiversity Data Dialogues (Special Session)
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM | Kentucky International Convention Center L011/012

SS 4 Ecology and the Data Science Bandwagon: Broadening Undergraduate Quantitative Education (Special Session)
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM | Kentucky International Convention Center - M105/106

SS 12: NSF NEON Information Session and Question and Answer Period (Special Session)
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM | Kentucky International Convention Center M105/106

1: Niche conservatism and phylogenetic signal in North American beetles (Talk)
01:30 PM - 01:50 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center M111

8: Aquatic macroinvertebrate and zooplankton community metabarcode analyses: Assessing trends across the NEON observatory (Talk)
04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center -L005/009

67: Seed dispersing ants in the longleaf pine sandhill ecosystem: A subset of the generalist ant community resilient to prescribed fire (Talk)
04:30 PM - 06:30 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center - Exhibit Hall

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

4: Iterative vegetation spring phenology forecasting at a landscape scale (Talk)
09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Kentucky International Convention Center M100

WK 25: Learn to Integrate NEON and GLEON Data into your Classroom using Macrosystems EDDIE! (Workshop)
11:30 AM - 01:15 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center - M109/110

Access NEON: How to access and download NEON Data Demo
1:30 PM -2:30 PM | ESA Career Center Theater

4: Insights from the synthesis of long-term biodiversity data: resources and tools available to community ecologists (Talk)
01:30 PM - 03:00 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center - M108

7: Wrangling carbon: Synthesizing multi-scale, multi-site observations across disparate data sets to advance models and understanding of soil carbon cycling (Talk)
01:30 PM - 03:00 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center M108

7: Patterns and drivers of stability in long-term metacommunity data (Talk)
03:40 PM - 04:00 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center M109/110

90: A new vision for quality assurance and quality control in ecological studies (Poster)
04:30 PM - 06:30 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center - Exhibit Hall

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

1: An assessment of variability and the power to detect change in populations and communities in the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) (Talk)
08:00 AM - 08:20 AM | Kentucky International Convention Center

4: Early examples of the vitality of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) in enabling the detection of ecological patterns, trends, and phenomena in terrestrial systems (Talk)
09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Kentucky International Convention Center L010/014

6: Modeling the evolution of ecological assembly processes mediated by functional traits across North American mammals, birds, and plants (Talk)
09:50 AM - 10:10 AM | Kentucky International Convention Center - M109/110

10: Mercury deposition and pH predictive of soil fungal community assembly at a continental scale (Talk)
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | Kentucky International Convention Center L010/014

Exploring the NEON Biorepository data portal with Symbiota and R on the NEON site
02:30 PM -3:00 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center - Exhibit Hall

5: Ecosystem services contingent on farming practices and landscape heterogeneity (Talk)
02:50 PM - 03:10 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center M101/102

6: Data democratization and NEON: Improving data quality with digital tools (Talk)
03:20 PM - 03:40 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center -L004

103: Impact of Land Cover Classification on Plant Diversity and Structure (Poster)
04:30 PM - 06:30 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center - Exhibit Hall

Thursday, August 15, 2019

3: Forecasting the forest mycobiome (Talk)
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Kentucky International Convention Center - Ballroom D

8: Ecological forecasting of soil bacteria: Predicting taxonomic and functional groups across the United States (Talk)
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Kentucky International Convention Center M109/111

WK 31: Beyond Data: Navigating NEON Resources (Workshop)
11:30 AM - 01:15 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center -L007/008

7: Understanding the influence of forest canopy structure on ecosystem functions at continental scales (Talk)
03:40 PM - 04:00 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center M100

47: NEON Assignable Assets Program - Putting NEON Assets to Use for the Research Community  (Poster)
04:30 PM - 06:30 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center - Exhibit Hall

53: Open tools for NEON data: Code and tools to work with NEON data created by NEON scientists and contributed by the community (Poster)
04:30 PM - 06:30 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center - Exhibit Hall

55: NEON Data in the Classroom: Using the QUBES Platform and Faculty Mentoring Networks to Build, Adapt, and Publish Data-Driven Teaching Resources (Poster)
04:30 PM - 06:30 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center - Exhibit Hall

10: The evolution of macrosystems biology (Talk)
04:40 PM - 05:00 PM | Kentucky International Convention Center L005/009

Friday, August 15, 2019

INS 17: Tales from NEON Users (Inspire Session)
08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Kentucky International Convention Center M108

• 1: Prediction and scale of the temperate forest mycobiome
• 2: Luring the NEON airborne observation platform away from NEON sites: An assignable asset odyssey
• 3: Where NEON and natural history collections data meet: Exploring the NEON Biorepository data portal
• 4: Using NEON resources to inspire data literacy in introductory undergraduate courses
• 5: Using NEON data to CURE an undergraduate ecology lecture course
• 6: Deep space for deep time: What NEON products can tell us about the evolution of species assembly
• 7: Synthesis of spatio-temporal dynamics of biodiversity: Potential for LTER and NEON applications in ecological forecasting
• 8: Building an ecological forecasting community of practice
• 9: Integrated research and teaching with NEON organismal data to understand drivers of community assembly
• 10: Modeling microclimate conditions across eco-climatic domains