There’s always room for improvement, and that’s certainly the case with the DMPTool. Do you have a suggestion on how to make it better? Or did you discover a bug while customizing the tool for your campus? We want to hear … Continue reading →
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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 4: So, what do YOU do?
An Explanation of NEON’s Airborne Observation Platform and Cyber Infrastructure through New Eyes After spending time together in NEON’s summer internship program, Ariel Kaluzhny (a computer science student) and Maddy Ball (an environmental science major) learned a lot about their NEON projects, explored a good bit of Colorado and became great friends. But, coming from …
DMPTool unavailable, Saturday October 18, 8:00pm-11:59pm PT
Due to maintenance, the DMPTool will be unavailable on Saturday Oct 18 from 8:00pm (20:00) until 11:59pm (23:59) PT. We apologize for the inconvenience.
What is Sexual Harassment? And, Kudos to Gentlemen Everywhere
Are you a guy, wondering what women consider harassment? Are you a female and you struggle to put into words something that is almost invisible? This poster does a great job of explaining every day examples of harassment. The author includes examples for men as to how they can react to shut down other men, …
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A Guide to Cooking and Baking Substitutions
Yesterday I was baking muffins, and I realized I had no baking soda. Neither did I have baking powder and cream of tartar. So, the substitutions listed here would not have helped me very much — I still had to make a quick grocery store trip. May the cooking gods land on your side with […]
US Dept of Energy data management requirements now supported in DMPTool
On July 31, 2014 the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science issued new requirements for the management of digital research data. Those requirements are now available in the DMPTool. All proposals for research funding submitted to the Office of … Continue reading →
NEON presents its first higher education video
NEON is excited to present its first video in a series of multimedia resources. The Story of LiDAR Data provides a general overview of LiDAR data and highlights how LiDAR data is used to measure structural characteristics of trees. Education is an important part of the NEON project design. NEON’s higher education program provides a …
We need API use cases!
We need your help! We are beginning work on developing the DMPTool API (application programming interface) and need use cases. If you aren’t familiar with APIs (, I’ve attached a few slides to help explain the concept. But basically, it’s how you … Continue reading →