Science Seminars and Data Skills Webinars
Join NEON for a seminar or webinar! NEON offers a variety of free, open webinars for the community.
The public seminar series presents current research from the scientific community. Data skills webinars provide an opportunity to learn skills to better access and use NEON data. Occasionally, NEON also offers a NEON Research Support Services webinar where participants can learn more about the services and infrastructure NEON provides to aid research and ecological investigations.
Science Seminars
NEON organizes a monthly seminar series, with the overarching goal to build community among researchers at the intersection of ecology, environmental science, and NEON. Specifically, the series aims to:
- Highlight new findings and frontiers of ecology and NEON science
- Build a robust and active researcher community
- Showcase and catalyze partnerships
- Amplify resources and tools that enable cross-scale ecological research
2025 - 2026 Schedule
All talks are held on a Tuesday from 12-1 pm MT. The schedule of seminar presentations for the 2025 - 2026 series is as follows.
Register for individual seminars at the links below:
- September 9, 2025: NEON Ambassadors - Alexi Besser, Arizona State University; Reid Longley, North Carolina State University; Yujie Liu, Northern Arizona University; Kit Lewers, University of Colorado, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. "From Microbes to the Atmosphere: Research Across Scales from NEON Ambassadors" (recording available)
- October 7, 2025: Tanya Berger-Wolf, Ohio State University. "AI for Nature: From Science to Impact" (recording available)
- December 9, 2025: Odeta Qafoku, Arjun Chakrawal, Vanessa Garayburu-Caruso, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. "MONet Campaigns for Soil Molecular and Microstructural AI Analysis and Advanced Modeling at Scale" (recording available)
- January 13, 2026: Pete Beckman, Northwestern University. Sage Grande: Put your Sensors on the Edge with AI at NEON Sites and Beyond.
- February 10, 2026: Renato Figueiredo, Oregon State University. "Towards Natural Language-based AI Agents for Environmental Data Exploration and Analysis Workflows"
- March 10, 2026: Lindsay Campbell, University of Florida. "Leveraging NEON Mosquito Collections for Broadscale Assessment of Abundance and Phenology"
- April 14, 2026: Daniel Allen, Penn State. "Towards Understanding how Drying Impacts Streams across Biological and Spatial Scales"
- May 12, 2026: Ranjan Muthukrishnan, St. Olaf College. "Linking Local Scale Community Processes into Global Scale Ecological Dynamics"
NOTE: We have enabled Zoom auto-generated captions for our sessions. If you wish to use this feature, please ensure your Zoom version is recently up-to-date.
You can nominate yourself or a colleague to give a future talk in the seminar series!
Nominate a seminar speaker
Continuing Education Units
Each NEON Science Seminar in the series provides 0.25 continuing education units from the Ecological Society of America's Board of Professional Certification. Visit https://www.esa.org/certification/ to learn more about this program.
Data Skills Webinars
NEON offers a series of data skills training webinars to guide community members in working with NEON data.
Registration is open to all. Some webinars will have prerequisites. See descriptions below and the linked event pages for details.
2026 Schedule
All webinars held Tuesday, 12:00-1:30 pm MT. The schedule of webinars is as follows.
Please find detailed event information as well as registration information for each talk by clicking on the talk title below:
- February 24, 2026: Claire Lunch, NEON Data Scientist. "Data Skills Webinar: Download & Explore NEON Data"
- April 28, 2026: Bridget Hass, NEON Data Scientist. "Data Skills Webinar: NEON Data in Google Earth Engine"
NOTE: We have enabled Zoom auto-generated captions for our sessions. If you wish to use this feature, please ensure your Zoom version is recently up-to-date.
NEON Research Support Services Webinars
NEON offers a webinar on the NEON Research Support Services (NRSS) program. NRSS provides elements of NEON's infrastructure to community members, aiding their research and other activities. Through the NRSS program, NEON functions as an easily accessible research platform for Principal Investigator-initiated studies and environmental investigations. The webinar enables attendees to learn more about the NRSS program, including currently available services and infrastructure.
- March 31, 2026, 11am-12pm: "NEON Research Support Services Informational Webinar"
NOTE: We have enabled Zoom auto-generated captions for our sessions. If you wish to use this feature, please ensure your Zoom version is recently up-to-date.
Past Years and Recordings
Looking for recordings from previous seminar or webinar series? Find past lineups and schedules, along with videos, here.