NEON Program

Attending the @ESA2024 Meeting? Join Eric Sokol of NEON for a Sunday workshop on exploring and working with continental-scale biodiversity data! Instruction will include an overview of the breadth of NEON, LTER, and EDI organismal datasets before an introduction to data discovery and visualization tools available in the ecocomDP package. Learn more and register: https://buff.ly/3xO8dBk See you there!

Want to learn about how grazing land management affects soil carbon? Join @USLTAR and the Southern Plains Climate Hub for a webinar series, starting this week! Learn more and register:

Why are there so many different types of mosquitoes? How have they evolved over time and in different parts of the world? And what drives the evolution of various traits, including those which make them vectors of disease? Dr. Brian Wiegmann explored these and other important questions using DNA from mosquitoes collected around the globe, including specimens stored at the NEON Biorepository at Arizona State University (ASU). Wiegmann and his coauthors published their results in Nature Communications. Read the NEON blog here: https://buff.ly/4f5vlMt Find the paper here: https://buff.ly/3zN7aCo

Welcome to our first cohort of RaMP interns at Domain 08! 🎉 This year marks the beginning of a new partnership with the University of Alabama and the Jones Center at Ichauway as we participate in the Woods to Water post-baccalaureate program. RaMP interns are spending time with NEON D08 to gain field work experience, receive mentorship to build confidence in their skills, and begin independent research projects potentially using NEON data. For the past several weeks, interns Dustin Benton, Jamie Sarmiento, Mahlana Graham, and Khalil Williams (pictured left to right) have been diving in to terrestrial, aquatic, and instrumentation work. It has been a joy to have them join our team this summer! To learn more about the RaMP program, visit https://buff.ly/4bt8VSe

Attending the @ESA2024 Meeting? Join Eric Sokol of NEON for a Sunday workshop on exploring and working with continental-scale biodiversity data! Instruction will include an overview of the breadth of NEON, LTER, and EDI organismal datasets before an introduction to data discovery and visualization tools available in the ecocomDP package. Learn more and register: https://buff.ly/3xO8dBk See you there!

Apply to join the second cohort of the NEON Ambassador Program! This program is a great opportunity for early-career scientists who are interested in incorporating NEON into their work. Participants will have the chance to expand their network, deepen their understanding of NEON, and develop their leadership skills. If you know someone who might be interested or would be an excellent candidate, we encourage you to share this opportunity with them. For more details and to find the application form, please visit the Ambassador webpage, linked here. Applications will be accepted until July 15. Don't miss out!

NEON seeks an Engagement Coordinator! The Engagement Coordinator will be part of the NEON Engagement team that is responsible for communications and outreach planning and implementation, in collaboration with NEON headquarters and field staff at Domain offices. In particular, this position is responsible for coordinating NEON’s Outreach Liaison Program, supporting a team of 18 field ecologists in identifying, planning, and executing external engagement activities across the country. Apply today! https://buff.ly/3VZXDjS

We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the second cohort of the NEON Ambassador Program! This program is a great opportunity for early-career scientists who are interested in incorporating NEON into their work. Participants will have the chance to expand their network, deepen their understanding of NEON, and develop their leadership skills. If you know someone who might be interested or would be an excellent candidate, we encourage you to share this opportunity with them. For more details and to find the application form, please visit the Ambassador webpage, linked here. Applications will be accepted until July 15. Don't miss out!

Mice and other small mammals are important indicator species with a sensitivity to local environmental changes and an ability to carry and transmit zoonotic diseases. With such widespread populations all over the country, mice are a small mammal NEON focuses on for data collection in order to monitor biodiversity and ecological change over time. One way to keep track of mice we observe in our plots is by ear tagging, a relatively easy and fast way of identifying individuals. At one site, we work closely with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia. They are working on camera-trapping weasels for their own data collection and happened to spot some of our mice friends, rocking their ear tags! They kindly sent us their photos so we can share them with all of you! 📸 credit: Brigit Rooney and Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

For our latest Women in Ecology interview, we spoke with Laura Steger, Environmental and Zoological Collections Manager for the NEON Biorepository at Arizona State University. Steger spent her childhood in nature, influencing her to continue in that environment and work with NEON, spending her time surrounded by different specimens and samples from many different ecosystems. Learn more in our latest blog!