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Mapping the invisible: the power of spectral remote sensing
Mapping the invisible: the power of spectral remote sensing The evolution of high-resolution cameras and image spectrometry is changing the landscape of ecology. Different objects reflect, absorb and transmit light differently, including light that is ��
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Andy Fox on teaching next generation data users
Andy Fox on teaching next generation data users While many NEON scientists are out of the office during the summer doing field work and installing sensors at NEON field sites, some are teaching next-generation data users. This summer, Andy Fox - NEON ��
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Scope change directives designed to ensure overall success of NEON’s construction
Scope change directives designed to ensure overall success of NEON’s construction [Update August 2021: "Relocatable" sites are renamed "Gradient" sites .] In mid-2015, the NSF announced its decision to rescope the NEON program. While the NEON vision will ��
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Cove Sturtevant
Cove Sturtevant Cove leads the monitoring, management, and communication of science data quality from NEON’s terrestrial instrument system. He works with NEON’s Science and Cyberinfrastructure teams to implement new quality control algorithms and address ��
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Presidents of the Ecological Society of America share their thoughts on the potential of NEON
Presidents of the Ecological Society of America share their thoughts on the potential of NEON By Leslie Goldman In mid-August 2015, during the Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) centennial annual meeting, 16 past and present ESA presidents gathered to ��
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Aquatic data available from NEON
Aquatic data available from NEON As of mid-July 2015, the NEON Data Portal now offers freely available Aquatics Observation Sampling (AOS) data collected at the following six NEON field sites: Ordway-Swisher Suggs Lake (D03, Florida) Ordway-Swisher Barco ��
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AOP covers ground with 166 flight hours in 2015
AOP covers ground with 166 flight hours in 2015 The NEON Airborne Observation Platform (AOP) team recently wrapped up their fourth flight season. The AOP collects remote sensing data over NEON field sites annually using sensors mounted on a Twin Otter ��
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AMS 2016 Annual Meeting: Earth System Science in Service to Society
AMS 2016 Annual Meeting: Earth System Science in Service to Society The American Meteorology Society's (AMS) Annual Meeting is the world’s largest yearly gathering for the weather, water, and climate community. It brings together great minds from a ��
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A BOLD way to crowdsource genetic data
A BOLD way to crowdsource genetic data The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) is one of the largest genetic databases in the world where users may search over 1.7M public records. More specifically, BOLD is an informatics workbench that facilitates the ��
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Federal Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Toolkit Webinar
Federal Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Toolkit Webinar To participate in this webinar, visit http://epawebconferencing.acms.com/ccstoolkit/ at 1:00PM ET on October 30 th . This 30 minute webinar will provide an overview of who can use the toolkit, ��
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Three ways scientists can use NEON today
Three ways scientists can use NEON today Are you an early career scientist or a tenured professor teaching science? Are you interested in LiDAR, atmospheric data, organismal data, biogeochemistry data or ecohydrology? Here’s a quick overview of how you ��
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NSF Biocenters unite to close the scientific data skills gap, with a focus on phenology
NSF Biocenters unite to close the scientific data skills gap, with a focus on phenology In October, a group of talented education, bioinformatics and science experts from across the U.S. gathered to support the first data lesson hackathon hosted by NEON, ��
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Kaelin Cawley
Kaelin Cawley Kaelin has a background in dissolved organic matter biogeochemistry in freshwater and coastal environments. Past studies have used fluorescence and absorbance spectroscopy of water samples to better understand photo-chemical and biological ��
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Calling all Undergraduates Enrolled in STEM Programs
Calling all Undergraduates Enrolled in STEM Programs Are you looking for real-world experience in your chosen STEM-related field this coming summer? Then consider a paid internship with the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)! Interdisciplinary ��
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The power of measuring vertical wind profiles using NEON towers
The power of measuring vertical wind profiles using NEON towers By Leslie Goldman & Cove Sturtevant Did you know that wind speed can be determined by measuring the speed of sound? Since sound is “carried�� by the wind, the speed of sound will be faster in ��
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2015 NEON Intern Wins Second Place in AGU’s Virtual Poster Showcase
2015 NEON Intern Wins Second Place in AGU’s Virtual Poster Showcase Congratulations are in order for Hitomi Okada, who interned with NEON this past summer, for winning second place in the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Virtual Poster Showcase . This ��
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NSF Announces Macrosystems Biology and Early NEON Science research funding opportunities
NSF Announces Macrosystems Biology and Early NEON Science research funding opportunities The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced the MacroSystems Biology and Early NEON Science: Research on Biological Systems at Regional to Continental ��
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NEON airborne data to help estimate and map vegetation health now available
NEON airborne data to help estimate and map vegetation health now available NEON’s sampling design allows for data users to look at larger geographic areas around NEON fields site thanks in part to the Airborne Observation Platform (AOP). The AOP is ��
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Seeking grad students and early career scientists for NEON's first Data Institute
Seeking grad students and early career scientists for NEON's first Data Institute The inaugural Data Institute will take place at NEON headquarters in Boulder, CO from June 19-25, 2016. The Institute provides a unique opportunity for participants to gain ��
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NEON's 2016 remote sensing flight schedule now available
NEON's 2016 remote sensing flight schedule now available The 2016 flight campaign for the Airborne Observation Platform (AOP) will run from April to October this year and cover nine of 20 NEON domains. Survey flights are scheduled for 25 terrestrial field ��
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Boulder Workshop Logistics
Boulder Workshop Logistics All workshop participants will need to bring their own laptop with them to the event. Please see individual workshop pages for any additional software/hardware that may be required. LOCATION All aspects of the course are held ��
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Chris Baird
Chris Baird Christopher is the Field Operations Manager for two NEON Domains: D18 (Arctic Tundra) and D19 (Boreal Forest, or ‘Taiga��), both of which are supported from the Domain Facility in Fairbanks, Alaska. Christopher comes to NEON after having worked ��
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Monitoring ecological change with a growing network of phenocams
Monitoring ecological change with a growing network of phenocams Phenology—the study of how nature changes seasonally—is a core focus of NEON science. Studying how plants, insects and animals respond to seasonal changes is central to increasing ��
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Learning to train the next generation of data scientists
Learning to train the next generation of data scientists In late January 2016, Megan Jones, a NEON staff scientist and science educator participated in a Software Carpentry & Data Carpentry Instructor Training Workshop, hosted at University of Florida’s ��
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2016 Data Institute: Remote sensing with reproducible workflows in R
2016 Data Institute: Remote sensing with reproducible workflows in R Data Institute Overview Our 2016 Institute focused on remote sensing of vegetation using open source tools and reproducible science workflows. The programming language of instruction in ��