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Dr. Jim Collins on NEON: Are you ready?
Dr. Jim Collins on NEON: Are you ready? In this presentation, Dr. James P. Collins presented a compelling vision for how NEON fits into US plans to address environmental challenges in the coming decades. The following five clips provide the presentation ��
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Samples, Shoots and Leaves at Harvard Forest
Samples, Shoots and Leaves at Harvard Forest Canopy sampling at Harvard Forest terrestrial ecologists and the Airborne Observation Platform (AOP). The combined ground- and airborne-based efforts will create one of NEON’s first combined datasets. This ��
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The NEON Mobile Deployment Platform: Help Design a Tool to Advance Your Research
The NEON Mobile Deployment Platform: Help Design a Tool to Advance Your Research Wildfire, floods, drought and insect outbreaks. These and other disturbances all have the potential to affect ecosystem health and function and alter their ability to provide ��
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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 featured a "Postcard" from our very own scientists and blog contributors Jeff Taylor and Mike SanClements. As you can tell from the photos in their contributor ��
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Best laid plans: Prototyping NEON's airborne remote sensing technologies
Best laid plans: Prototyping NEON's airborne remote sensing technologies It’s 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 ��
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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 Mývatn �� “lake of midges�� in Icelandic) in ��
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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 ��
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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 ��
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An engineer and a scientist walks into a lab ...
An engineer and a scientist walks into a lab ... By Janae Csavina 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 ��
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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 ��
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A field day for interns
A field day for interns 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 ��
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Learning is a two-way street
Learning is a two-way street By Liz Goehring Internship programs are all about learning �� learning your discipline; learning about work environments and careers; about time management and teamwork; about yourself. I’m an educator so from my vantage point, ��
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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 Denver Business Journal �� NEON shifting HQ to south Boulder, expects to be settled early Spring ��
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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 ��
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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 ��
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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 ��
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Dear future NEON data users: Thanks for your input!
Dear future NEON data users: Thanks for your input! While we’ve released some preliminary data from newly constructed field sites , our data portal is a work in progress. We want to know what you, future users of NEON data, are looking for when you ��
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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’s Terrestrial Observation System. You know…insects, plants, soils, ��
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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 ��
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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. �� Jewels with legs: The importance of bioarchives in studying the effects of ��
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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 ��
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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. The Story of LiDAR Data provides a general overview of LiDAR data and highlights how LiDAR data is used to measure structural ��
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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 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 ��
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On Dogs, Fleas, and Continental Scale
On Dogs, Fleas, and Continental Scale By Jeff Taylor It’s been about 3 months since I started working in the Fundamental Instrument Group at NEON and it’s been a mix of exciting new science, hard work, and lots of new friends. I’ve worked at a several ��
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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 ��