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NSF Director Visits NEON Headquarters
NSF Director Visits NEON Headquarters NEON hosted a visit from Dr. Subra Suresh, the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), on Monday. Dr. Suresh and several colleagues also with the NSF, including Tim Killeen (Assistant Director for 鈥� - 3077
Comfort in Consistency: The Critical Job of NEON's Calibration and Validation Laboratory
Comfort in Consistency: The Critical Job of NEON's Calibration and Validation Laboratory By Sandra Chung Deep inside the technical facility at NEON鈥檚 headquarters, test design engineer Guillermo Oviedo walks into a room with solid black walls. He stands 鈥� - 3078
NEON Receives Construction Funding from National Science Foundation, Slated to Begin Building Fall 2011
NEON Receives Construction Funding from National Science Foundation, Slated to Begin Building Fall 2011 Scientists and decision makers will soon have access to information critical for understanding the effects of environmental change on a massive scale 鈥� - 3079
Controlling the Fire Hose: Mapping Data's Route From Field to Browser
Controlling the Fire Hose: Mapping Data's Route From Field to Browser By Sandra Chung In the East Wing of NEON headquarters, a door marked 鈥淒ata Center鈥� opens to a chilly, white-walled room. Eight tall cabinets with black mesh doors stand in a row across 鈥� - 3080
Teaming Up to Scale Up: Laying the Groundwork for a NEON-NASA Collaboration
Teaming Up to Scale Up: Laying the Groundwork for a NEON-NASA Collaboration NEON鈥檚 Airborne Observation Platform (AOP) team went to unusual heights in late September, taking only ground-based observations in the first of several planned collaborations 鈥� - 3081
NEON and LTER: Two complementary networks for ecological research
NEON and LTER: Two complementary networks for ecological research The Long-term Ecological Research Network (LTER) and NEON are highly complementary networks that support ecological research in different ways, but are becoming more and more integrated 鈥� - 3082
NASA Technology to Buoy NEON Airborne Observations
NASA Technology to Buoy NEON Airborne Observations NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has completed the first of three high fidelity imaging spectrometers for use on the NEON project, known as the NEON Imaging Spectrometer Design Verification Unit 鈥� - 3083
NEON to Begin Construction on First Three Sites
NEON to Begin Construction on First Three Sites NEON will break ground on three sites starting early Summer 2012: Ordway-Swisher Biological Station in Florida, Harvard Forest in Massachusetts, and Central Plains Experimental Range in Colorado. NEON 鈥� - 3084
Full Airborne Observation Platform Embarks on Inaugural Journey
Full Airborne Observation Platform Embarks on Inaugural Journey NEON's Airborne Observation Platform (AOP) will depart on its inaugural test flights out of the Grand Junction Regional Airport starting this Sunday and continuing into next week. AOP will 鈥� - 3085
NEON Breaks Ground
NEON Breaks Ground NEON broke ground on its first two sites this week, marking the official start of observatory construction. To commemorate this historic moment, NEON held two groundbreaking events at the sites. The first groundbreaking event was 鈥� - 3086
Big Data Part I: The "Big" in Ecological Big Data
Big Data Part I: The "Big" in Ecological Big Data Big Data has already altered the way scientists view, study, and analyze the world, and appears poised to change the fields of ecology and environmental science forever. Deep and broad information on 鈥� - 3087
NEON Undertakes its First Natural Disaster Response to Colorado鈥檚 High Park Wildfire
NEON Undertakes its First Natural Disaster Response to Colorado鈥檚 High Park Wildfire In the largest study of its kind, NEON will collaborate with Colorado State University to provide airborne remote sensing data to study devastating wildfire effects. FORT 鈥� - 3088
Big Data Part II: Sharing the Challenges and Payoffs of Big Data
Big Data Part II: Sharing the Challenges and Payoffs of Big Data Part II: Sharing the Challenges and Payoffs of Big Data By Brian Wee, Chief of External Affairs Big Data is not new to the science world. But to extract as much fundamental insight and 鈥� - 3089
Big Data Part III: Other People's Data
Big Data Part III: Other People's Data One afternoon in March 2012, a casually dressed crowd of more than 60 researchers crammed themselves into the largest room at NEON headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. The principal investigators of the National 鈥� - 3090
Combining Data with Models to Bring Continental Scale to Ecology
Combining Data with Models to Bring Continental Scale to Ecology By Sandra Chung It鈥檚 July 2012, and NEON Data Products Scientist Andy Fox is teaching summer school 9,500 feet above sea level. He is explaining data assimilation to a room full of 鈥� - 3091
Bridging the Data Divide Down Under
Bridging the Data Divide Down Under Scientists of the future may be able to compare the spread of invasive species in the northeastern U.S. with invasive species proliferation throughout Australia and link it to a common cause. NEON is currently 鈥� - 3092
NEON Collaborates with EcoSIS Team on New Spectral Data Resource
NEON Collaborates with EcoSIS Team on New Spectral Data Resource A team of researchers led by Phil Townsend at the University of Wisconsin recently received NASA funding to prototype a new public repository for standardized, high-quality spectral 鈥� - 3093
NSF Releases Video on NEON/CSU Wildfire Study
NSF Releases Video on NEON/CSU Wildfire Study One year after the devastating High Park Fire, the National Science Foundation has released a video documenting the first round of airborne and ground-based data collection for the High Park Fire project. The 鈥� - 3094
NEON and TERN Sign Interoperability and Collaboration Agreement
NEON and TERN Sign Interoperability and Collaboration Agreement NEON and the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) signed a memorandum of understanding in mid-May 2013. The MOU is a written agreement to foster collaboration and interoperability 鈥� - 3095
NEON and NASA Team up at the Frontier of Remote Sensing in Ecology
NEON and NASA Team up at the Frontier of Remote Sensing in Ecology The NEON Airborne Observation Platform ( AOP ) team and a crowd of researchers from several different U.S. institutions joined forces in the Sierra Nevada and San Joaquin Valley in 鈥� - 3096
NEON and ICOS Sign Interoperability and Collaboration Agreement
NEON and ICOS Sign Interoperability and Collaboration Agreement NEON and the Integrated Carbon Observing System ( ICOS ) Ecosystem Thematic Center (ETC) signed a memorandum of understanding in mid-June 2013. This MOU is a written agreement to formally 鈥� - 3097
Citizen Science Then and Now
Citizen Science Then and Now In the latest issue of American Scientist, NEON Citizen Science Director Sandra Henderson and Chicago Botanic Garden Senior Scientist Kayri Havens describe the evolution of the six-year-old NEON citizen science program Project 鈥� - 3098
Ecologically-Friendly Construction at a Continental Scale
Ecologically-Friendly Construction at a Continental Scale NEON has to build dozens of sites across the country that satisfy its scientific and operations requirements, and we have to do it on time and under budget. One key requirement for NEON site 鈥� - 3099
NEON Scientist Honored by German Meteorological Society
NEON Scientist Honored by German Meteorological Society NEON scientist Dr. Stefan Metzger received the 2013 Young Scientist Award from the German Meteorological Society at the DACH conference 聽of German, Austrian and Swiss meteorologists in Innsbruck, 鈥� - 3100
NEON Signs MOU With CzechGlobe
NEON Signs MOU With CzechGlobe NEON has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with CzechGlobe (Czech Climate Change Research Center) to achieve international goals of interoperability by linking research questions and requirements, algorithmic 鈥�