One of the hottest social media topics of the day was a scientific meeting. It wasn’t the first time that it happened, and it won’t be the last.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.neonnotes.org/2012/09/building-a-community-that-thrives-online-offline-and-after-the-meeting/
AOP’s on PBS!
Earlier this month, while most of NEON’s science staff was soaking up the science at the Ecological Society of America’s Annual Meeting in Portland, our Airborne Observation Platform team was in Massachusetts, working with researchers from the Rochester Institute of Technology to collect vegetation structure and chemistry data in Harvard Forest. New York public television …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.neonnotes.org/2012/08/aops-on-pbs/
Big Data: Call for your words and images
Our three-part series on Big Data is an invitation to discussion. We’re looking for YOUR best stories, essays and images related to Big Data in ecology and environmental science. We’ll highlight excerpts from our favorites here on our blog will be available within the comments of this blog. We’re aiming to represent a range of …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.neonnotes.org/2012/07/big-data-call-for-guest-bloggers/
Some special visitors, and a communications milestone
This blog showcases personal voices and experiences from all the different NEON programs, but you don’t often hear from the communications staff working behind the scenes to bring that information to you. So here is an update from the backstage crew. Now that we’re in full construction mode, NEON has reached a point in its …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.neonnotes.org/2012/07/some-special-visitors-and-a-communications-milestone/
Creating a digital menagerie
NEON technicians will collect and identify countless insect specimens over the lifetime of the observatory. To put it into perspective, during a short prototype collection at one site over three weeks using 20 traps, we collected close to 400 ground beetles. Now imagine 40 traps collecting insects at 60 sites for several months every year …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.neonnotes.org/2012/06/creating-a-digital-menagerie/
Learning on the fly
I got a little nervous as I watched the first group of people disembarking the plane and saw one of my AOP team members carrying two little white bags. I’ve never had a weak stomach or gotten motion sickness, but I’d also never flown on such a small plane while having to watch a computer …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.neonnotes.org/2012/06/learning-on-the-fly/
Reflections on remote sensing, ecology and the NEON AOP
A few summers ago, I spent my time in the field hugging trees. While I’ve been called a hippie in the past, this was hardly hippie behavior. This was research. I was an ecology Ph.D. student studying streamside forests and measuring things like the diameter and canopy heights of trees. I trudged through countless miles …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.neonnotes.org/2012/06/reflections-on-remote-sensing-ecology-and-the-neon-aop/
A citizen science road trip!
It’s a long way from Colorado to Wisconsin by car. How to break up more than 1,000 miles of paved monotony? You might take a detour or three to some wildlife refuges. And as long as you’re stopping to smell the roses, you might as well record their longitude and latitude and what stage of …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.neonnotes.org/2012/05/a-citizen-science-road-trip/
Photo Gallery: AOP-1′s first test flights
NEON’s very own remote sensing powerhouse just took its first rides in a plane this past week. The full Airborne Observation Platform is LiDAR + hi-res digital camera + visible to shortwave infrared imaging spectrometer from NASA JPL. The AOP crew proudly sent us photos of their instruments being integrated into our rented plane in …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.neonnotes.org/2012/05/photo-gallery-aop-1s-first-test-flights/
Windows into unseen waters
In mid-February, while many other people were wooing their significant others for Valentine’s Day, we were hard at work establishing the first portion of NEON’s groundwater observation well network.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.neonnotes.org/2012/04/windows-into-unseen-waters/
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