Past Years - Science Seminars and Data Skills Webinars
2023 - 2024
Science Seminars
- September 12, 2023: Tong Qiu, Penn State University. "Climate-habitat interactions that control biodiversity change: synthesizing NEON AOP with ground observations" (recording available)
- October 10, 2023: R. Quinn Thomas and Freya Olsson, Virginia Tech; Kathryn Wheeler, UCAR & MIT. "The NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge" (recording available)
- November 14, 2023: Peter Chuckran, UC Berkeley. "Using NEON microbial data to understand selective pressures on soil microbial communities" (recording available)
- January 9, 2024: Patina Mendez, UC Berkeley. "NEON Data Exploration, Collaboration and Community-building in the Society for Freshwater Science Emerge Program" (recording available)
- February 13, 2024: Mike Bell, National Park Service - Air Resources Division. "Using local data to understand ecosystem responses to air pollution and help guide decision-making and future research within national parks" (recording available)
- March 12, 2024: (recording available)
- Adriana Uscanga, Michigan State University. "A characterization of disturbance trajectories to better predict forest carbon uptake at NEON sites using Landsat and NEON AOP data"
- Nayani Ilangakoon, Earth Lab - CIRES / University of Colorado Boulder. "Evaluating disturbance impact on ecosystem diversity and transformations using NEON AOP and drone data"
- April 9, 2024: Ekaterina Landgren, CIRES / University of Colorado Boulder. "Modeling Misperception of Public Support for Climate Policy" (recording available)
- May 14, 2024: Colleen Iversen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. "The hidden half of ecosystem responses to climate change" (recording available)
Data Skills Webinars
- September 26, 2023: Kelsey Yule, ASU Biorepository. "Data Skills Webinar: Introduction to the Biorepository" (recording available)
- October 31, 2023: Freya Olsson, Virginia Tech and Quinn Thomas, Virginia Tech. "Data Skills Webinar: Ecological Forecasting" (recording available)
- December 5, 2023: Alicia Clum, Julia Kelliher, and Montana Smith. "Data Skills Webinar - Exploring NEON data with National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC) tools" (recording available)
- January 23, 2024: Bobby Hensley, NEON. "Data Skills Webinar: Aquatic Sensor Data" (recording available)
- March 26, 2024: Shashi Konduri, NEON. "Data Skills Webinar: Detecting changes in vegetation structure following fires using discrete-return lidar" (recording available)
2022 - 2023
Science Seminars
- Sept 13, 2022: Sydne Record, University of Maine. "Past and current land use of NEON sites" (recording available)
- October 11, 2022: Elizabeth LaRue University of Texas - El Paso. "Structural diversity as a predictor of ecosystem function across scales and ecoclimatic domains" (recording available)
- November 8, 2022: Theresa Crimmins and Alyssa Rosemartin, USA National Phenology Network and University of Arizona. "NEON and USA-NPN. Partnering to grow phenology collection, use, and understanding" (recording available)
- January 10, 2023: Roland Kays, North Carolina State University and Arielle Parsons, Lincoln Park Zoo. "NEON mammals large and small" (recording available)
- February 14, 2023: Stephanie Russo Carroll, University of Arizona and Global Indigenous Data Alliance. "Implementing the CARE Principles in open data repositories" (recording available)
- March 14, 2023: Erin Rooney, University of Tennessee Knoxville. "Using NEON soil and site properties to evaluate cross-scale freeze-thaw disturbance" (recording available)
- April 11, 2023: Kimberly Novick, Indiana University and Flurin Babst, University of Arizona, on behalf of the AmeriFlux Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) Working Group. "Nature-based climate solutions in AmeriFlux – optimizing ecosystem structure for climate mitigation" (recording available)
- May 9, 2023: Sarah Shivers, Senior Product Manager; Keely Roth, Lead Scientist for Hyperspectral at Planet. "Planet's Hyperspectral Offering: A commercial mission with a public benefit" (recording available)
- June 13, 2023: Manoj Hari, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India and National Center for Atmospheric Research. "Synergies between the Community Land Model (CLM) and satellite proxies in capturing terrestrial carbon dynamics at NEON sites." (recording available)
Data Skills Webinars
- Oct 4, 2022 – Download and Explore NEON Data. (recording available)
- Oct 25, 2022 – Introduction to Lidar Data. (recording available)
- Nov 29, 2022 – Work with NEON Plant Phenology Data. Prerequisite: Download and Explore NEON Data. (recording available)
- Jan 31, 2023 - Introduction to NEON Small Mammal Data. Prerequisite: Download and Explore NEON Data. (recording available)
- Feb 28, 2023 - Introduction to the NEON API. (recording available)
- Mar 28, 2023 - Introduction to NEON Soil Sensor Data. Recommended (not required) prerequisite: Download and Explore NEON Data. (recording available)
- Apr 25, 2023 - Exploring Diurnal Cycles in Ecosystem Fluxes. Recommended (not required) prerequisite: Download and Explore NEON Data (See recording from Oct 4 above). (recording available)
- May 30, 2023 - Work with NEON Hyperspectral Data in Google Earth Engine. (recording available)