Free-to-use datasets on bird collisions with energy infrastructure, insights into plant genetics, cancer mortality rates in Italy, mercury levels near artisanal goldmines in the Amazon, and more. Continue reading →
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Open Data Digest: October 2023
A selection of Halloween-themed free datasets from Dryad on topics such as spiders, bats, pumpkins, and ravens. Continue reading →
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Open Data Digest special edition: Climate change adaptation needs a science of culture
Compelling data at the intersection of climate and culture. A collaboration with the special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Continue reading →
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Quarterly roundup: Your September 2023 news from Dryad
Helping journals deliver on data sharing policies, tips for including Dryad in your DMSP, our new Open Data Digest, and more. Continue reading →
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Open Data Digest: September 2023
Your monthly round-up of open data, featuring some of our most viewed publications from researchers around the world. Subscribe today to receive the Open Data Digest directly in your inbox. MEDICINE Aberrant oligodendroglial-vascular interactions disru…
Leaders in open data: Journal editors boost standards for data sharing
One of the key drivers of Dryad’s success in the years since we first went online in 2008 is our connection to journals and the research publication workflow. While now supporting data submission at any point in the research process, … Continue r…
Interns Summer in Review, Part 5: Learning (and teaching) the art of scientific investigations
It has been over two years since I was last in the woods of New Hampshire collecting invasive plant data for my undergraduate research. From then to now, I have thought little about data sets or statistical variability. Instead, I have focused on getting thirteen-year-old kids to simply grasp the concept that Earth has seasons …
Boots on the ground for NEON Member Institution Representatives
NEON Member Institution representatives learned about NEON data collection first-hand this week during a visit the Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER), the Domain 10 core site. This site tour was part of the 2014 NEON Membership Meeting, held October 21-22 in Boulder, CO at NEON Headquarters. A group of 20 participants toured the CPER site …
Interns Summer in Review, Part 3: What’s an Imaging Science student doing at NEON?
NEON is quite the unexpected place for an Imaging Science student to do an internship. NEON is all about Ecology, so where am I supposed to fit in here? My internship is in FIU, which is the Fundamental Instrumentation Unit. FIU is a science department whose purpose is to facilitate the instrument-based collection of abiotic …
Spring Training in Florida
I recently returned from a week of training in Florida. No, not for baseball, but for Big Data. More specifically, how to collect samples for NEON’s Terrestrial Observation System. You know…insects, plants, soils, microbes, mammals, and pathogens. With a push of a button, you’ll be able to access data about all of these things: their …