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Workshop

Accessing and Working with NEON Invertebrate Data

Sunday, October 31, 2021
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM MT
Location: Colorado Convention Center, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

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The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) (https://www.neonscience.org/) provides open ecological data from 81 locations across the United States. The NEON program collects a diverse set of data types, including organismal observations, biogeochemistry, remote sensing, and micrometeorology. NEON data also include a range of invertebrate datasets, including data on ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae), mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae), ticks (Ixodida: Ixodidae) and aquatic macroinvertebrates. Many datasets have been collected annually since 2013. 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 begin with an introduction to the NEON program with special emphasis on available invertebrate datasets. This will be followed by a primer on (a) discovering and accessing NEON data, via the data portal (https://data.neonscience.org) and the neonUtilities R package (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=neonUtilities), (b) understanding the contents and quality of various data packages, and (c) performing common data merges, summarizations, and transformations.