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A NEON postcard from the Arctic to the New York Times
A NEON postcard from the Arctic to the New York Times The New York Times Dot Earth blog聽 featured a "Postcard" from our very own scientists and blog contributors Jeff Taylor and Mike聽SanClements. As you can tell from the photos in their contributor 鈥� - 3152
Best laid plans: Prototyping NEON's airborne remote sensing technologies
Best laid plans: Prototyping NEON's airborne remote sensing technologies It鈥檚 late in the evening and I find myself staring at a weather map of Gainesville, Florida watching green and red blobs move across the computer screen. This is an exciting and busy 鈥� - 3153
Tracking isotopes to illuminate Nature's grand recycling program
Tracking isotopes to illuminate Nature's grand recycling program By David Hoekman dead zones in marine systems far from the original field. Before becoming the insect ecologist at NEON, I worked on a project M媒vatn 鈥� 鈥渓ake of midges鈥� in Icelandic) in 鈥� - 3154
Groundwork in the snow for measurements in the wind
Groundwork in the snow for measurements in the wind It was January 2013 in Toolik, Alaska, about 160 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and the temperature was minus 35 degrees Fahrenheit. Jeff Taylor (NEON atmospheric physicist) and I (NEON 鈥� - 3155
Health diagnostics for the planet
Health diagnostics for the planet A couple of weeks ago, my wife took our daughter to the doctor. After he had heard the symptoms my daughter had been experiencing, the doctor performed a rapid strep test. Within a few minutes he had diagnosed her with 鈥� - 3156
An engineer and a scientist walks into a lab ...
An engineer and a scientist walks into a lab ... By聽Janae Csavina聽 My job as the Quality Assurance/Quality Control Scientist in the Calibration, Validation and Audit Laboratory (CVAL) at the NEON project started in August 2012. I was straight out of grad 鈥� - 3157
Life in the Pits
Life in the Pits by Derek Smith and Josh Roberti Two Associate Scientists at NEON reflect upon finding themselves in a seven foot deep hole. Josh: As a meteorology student, I never thought too much about soil; my mind was focused on the atmosphere. Fast 鈥� - 3158
A field day for interns
A field day for interns 聽 Seeing how much planning and constant attention (sampling) must go in to the construction and operation of a single site, not even a single domain, let alone across all domains, made me realize what a huge undertaking the NEON 鈥� - 3159
Learning is a two-way street
Learning is a two-way street By Liz Goehring Internship programs are all about learning 鈥� learning your discipline; learning about work environments and careers; about time management and teamwork; about yourself. I鈥檓 an educator so from my vantage point, 鈥� - 3160
NEON shifting HQ to south Boulder, expects to be settled early Spring 2011
NEON shifting HQ to south Boulder, expects to be settled early Spring 2011 Boulder Daily Camera 聽 Denver Business Journal 鈥� NEON shifting HQ to south Boulder, expects to be settled early Spring 鈥� - 3161
Underground biomass: Getting to the root of it
Underground biomass: Getting to the root of it By Jen Everhart and Julia Spencer Adorned with sweet, bright, orange safety vests and serious hardhats--excavation tools in hand--Jen Everhart, Julia Spencer and I are ready for sampling. Our mission: to 鈥� - 3162
From field notebooks to rack servers
From field notebooks to rack servers Let me begin by saying I'm a believer in big data in ecology, and there's no more exciting place to be working right now on these problems than here at NEON. But after just a few short weeks here, I've discovered 鈥� - 3163
In LiDAR magazine this month: remote sensing multi-tasking
In LiDAR magazine this month: remote sensing multi-tasking The latest issue of LiDAR magazine features NEON's remote sensing data collection program. In the magazine, three of our remote sensing scientists from the Airborne Observation Platform team 鈥� - 3164
Dear future NEON data users: Thanks for your input!
Dear future NEON data users: Thanks for your input! While we鈥檝e released聽some preliminary聽data from newly constructed field sites ,聽our data聽 portal 聽is a work in progress. We want to know what you, future users of NEON data, are looking for when you 鈥� - 3165
Spring Training in Florida
Spring Training in Florida By Liz Knapp I recently returned from a week of training in Florida. No, not for baseball, but for Big Data. More specifically, how to collect samples for NEON鈥檚 Terrestrial Observation System. You know鈥nsects, plants, soils, 鈥� - 3166
Summer Internship Program Kicks Off
Summer Internship Program Kicks Off 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 鈥� - 3167
Jewels with legs: The importance of bioarchives in studying the effects of climate change
Jewels with legs: The importance of bioarchives in studying the effects of climate change By Sandra Chung The referenced media source is missing and needs to be re-embedded. 鈥� Jewels with legs: The importance of bioarchives in studying the effects of 鈥� - 3168
Celebrating PODS packed full of sensor equipment
Celebrating PODS packed full of sensor equipment 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 鈥� - 3169
NEON presents its first higher education video
NEON presents its first higher education video NEON is excited to present its first video in a series of multimedia resources.聽 The Story of LiDAR聽Data 聽provides a general overview of LiDAR data and highlights how LiDAR data is used to measure structural 鈥� - 3170
A passion for rats: stepping into the role of NEON Mammal Ecologist
A passion for rats: stepping into the role of NEON Mammal Ecologist By聽Kate Thibault I love rats. Not the big, slimy ones that live in the sewers or stow away on ships and then wreak havoc on pristine island ecosystems. I mean all of the other small 鈥� - 3171
On Dogs, Fleas, and Continental Scale
On Dogs, Fleas, and Continental Scale By Jeff Taylor It鈥檚 been about 3 months since I started working in the Fundamental Instrument Group at NEON and it鈥檚 been a mix of exciting new science, hard work, and lots of new friends. I鈥檝e worked at a several 鈥� - 3172
USGS Colloquium: Dave Schimel on "The Design of NEON and the Future of Ecological Forecasting"
USGS Colloquium: Dave Schimel on "The Design of NEON and the Future of Ecological Forecasting" Dave Schimel presented a webcasted talk at the USGS campus in Menlo Park, CA on Feb 8, 2010, called "The Design of NEON and the Future of Ecological 鈥� - 3173
How many scientists does it take to make a pizza the size of a continent?
How many scientists does it take to make a pizza the size of a continent? Jeff Taylor wrote in his last post: When I originally heard that NEON was going to be the world鈥檚 first continental-scale observatory, I was a bit confused. I had spent years 鈥� - 3174
Wanted: Not Dead, But Alive - And Out Cold
Wanted: Not Dead, But Alive - And Out Cold Insects come in a variety of shapes and colors that dazzle our eyes. But there鈥檚 one insect that you almost always hear before you see it (if you see it at all), and chances are the sound of it coming is not 鈥� - 3175
Data Collection Methods
Data Collection Methods NEON collects data and samples using an extensive network of thousands of automated instruments and hundreds of field technicians, as well as though airborne remote sensing. Where logistically possible, NEON colocates terrestrial 鈥�