Explore NEON: 2-day workshop for graduate students
Megan Jones
National Ecological Observatory Network
Summary
This two-day workshop taught in November 2019 was designed for graduate students to introduce them to the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). The workshop materials include teaching how to access and work with NEON data, introduction to reproducible science, and introduction to NEON metadata, protocols, and other infrastructure resources. The workshop included hands-on, interactive instruction on how to access and work with NEON data, both through the NEON data portal and programmatically via R package wrapper for the API.
Course URL: https://www.neonscience.org/explore-neon-grads-2018
Course Size:
15-30
Course Format:
Small-group seminar
Institution Type:
Other
Course Context:
This two-day workshop was designed for graduate students that were earlier in their research and exploring potential questions and data sets to introduce them to the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). The online materials can be applied to any group (undergraduates to faculty to land managers) that are interested in using NEON data.
Course Content:
Access and work with NEON data including some work on reproducible workflows (why and how).