In this issue:The NEON Assignable Assets program, a data science challenge and news from the NEON domains.  
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DATA AND INFRASTRUCTURE NEWS
The NEON Assignable Assets program lets outside researchers leverage NEON infrastructure and personnel to gather field data for their own programs.

A team at the University of Florida is challenging the data science community to leverage NEON’s remote sensing data to accurately count and classify trees.

DOMAIN NEWS
NEON and the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) are discovering opportunities for mutual support at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest and six other LTER field sites.

Researchers from the Texas A&M Dept. of Ecosystem Science and Management visited a NEON field site to learn how NEON’s flux data could support their programs.

CONSTRUCTION UPDATE
NSF has extended Battelle’s Construction Cooperative Agreement to November 2018 for completion of the final four NEON sites.

FEATURED EXPERTS
Stefan Metzger turns billions of data points on surface-atmosphere exchange into information that is useful for the research community and societal decision making. 

UPCOMING EVENTS
2017 AGU Fall Meeting
When: December 11, 2017 - December 15, 2017
Location: New Orleans, LA

Don’t miss NEON’s presentations and workshop at this year's AGU Fall Meeting. Scientists will be sharing information about flux data products, the Mobile Deployment Platform, NEON in the arctic and subarctic, and much more. Learn more about NEON’s presentations at AGU here . 
NEON Careers
Ongoing growth and advancements at NEON create opportunity. Join our team!
Each year, NEON hires hundreds of temporary field technicians to assist our full-time field operations staff with observational sampling. NEON field sites are located in 24 states across the U.S plus Puerto Rico; and the sites are located in some of the nation’s most pristine and wild areas. These opportunities are perfect for up-and-coming scientists who want valuable fieldwork experience collecting data for a continental-scale ecology project.


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