Science Seminars and Data Skills Webinars

Data collection/vegetation monitoring at the site.

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 or NEON Biorepository webinar where participants can learn more about the services and infrastructure NEON provides to aid research and samples and specimens available for use. 

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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

2026 -  2027 Schedule

Talks are typically held on a Tuesday from 12-1 pm MT. The schedule of seminar presentations for the 2026 - 2027 series is as follows.

Register for individual seminars at the links below:

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.

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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:

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. 

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 Biorepository Webinars

NEON offers webinars about the NEON Biorepository. The NEON Biorepository at Arizona State University houses biological and environmental samples collected from 81 NEON field sites across all 20 NEON Domains. The samples and specimens are available for research, including for consumptive and destructive sampling.  

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.