Through participation in this workshop, full-time field ecologists on the NEON project will improve their ability to work with the local scientific community (site hosts, local researchers, and other potential NEON data users) by increasing their knowledge of the online resources available from NEON and the skills needed to access NEON data.

In this workshop session, we will explore open educational resources that use NEON data, as well as use the NEON data portal to directly access NEON data of interest with a discussion of considerations for using the NEON portal and data with students.

This workshop will provide an introduction to discovering, accessing and preparing a variety of NEON data for your research, primarily using R.

We will explore these NEON Surface Atmosphere Exchange resources and solicit input to guide development of NEON SAE community resources for 2019. Additionally, the workshop offers hands-on tutorials utilizing eddy4R vignettes in a cloud-computing environment.

Learn to work with repeat-photography images to study landscape changes. This workshop is a joint effort between the PhenoCam network and the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) to share recently developed tools facilitating access to, and analysis of, camera imagery and higher-order data products available through PhenoCam.

Participants will leave this session with the tools and comfort level to discover and access data from the NEON data portal and to be aware of and able to use the open educational resources available from NEON.

This workshop will provide an introduction to discovering, accessing and preparing a variety of NEON data for your research, primarily using R. The workshop will be divided into two sections of roughly equal length.

NEON provides open ecological data from 81 sites across the United States, covering a wide range of subject areas, including organismal observations, biogeochemistry, and remote sensing. Surface-atmosphere exchange data are collected at all 47 terrestrial NEON sites, enabling analysis and synthesis both within and across sites.

This workshop will provide an introduction to data access via the Data Portal and the API, and to working with NEON flux data using the neonUtilities R package.

This three-day workshop introduces participants to NEON, teaches them how to access and work with NEON data, and to allow them to interact with NEON science staff to get assistance working on the data they are interested in using. The workshop includes hands-on, interactive instruction on how to access and work with NEON data, both through the NEON data portal and programmatically. The third day is an optional site visit to the NEON Guanica field site. 

COVID-19 Update: 

Given the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation, the organizing committee of the structural diversity workshop has decided to go to a shorter virtual meeting format on May 18th and 19th from 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST and to postpone the in-person site meeting for a future date. 

Please cancel all travel arrangements you have made for May 19-20^th in Boulder, CO but reserve May 18^th and 19^th for the virtual workshop.