SAME ECOI Webinar: NEON: Data and Infrastructure to Understand Changing Ecosystems

The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a continental-scale observation facility that collects long-term, open access ecological data to better understand how ecosystems are changing across the United States. This presentation will introduce NEON as well as the resources available for accessing and working with NEON data. It will also cover NEON’s instrumented, observational, and airborne sampling systems and how these are maintained and engineered to adapt to environmental impacts while ensuring configuration and standardization across infrastructure on a national scale. Lastly, it will showcase published research studies that use NEON to demonstrate how NEON science can be used to examine how climate change is altering ecosystems across the United States.

• Data collection systems for large environmental monitoring networks
• Configuration Management and fleet maintenance approach
• Benefits of environmental monitoring networks for society and science
• Data Base to help understand Climate change impact to Ecosystems