Bring researchers into your classroom and give students a window into the process of scientific inquiry. Join us for an informal chat with researchers using data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) to examine carbon storage and cycling in ecosystems within Colorado, Maryland, and Virginia. Find out who they are, how they got interested in ecological carbon research, and the research questions they are asking. Hear about their work on tracking stocks and changes of forest carbon with remote sensing, soil carbon cycling and soil carbon-climate feedbacks, and measuring and modeling carbon cycle changes.
NEON is a long-term, continental-scale, ecological observation facility funded by NSF and operated by Battelle that offers a variety of open ecological data that powers the most important science being done today. Instructor’s guide available.
“Live from the Field” events are 50-minute events where researchers with three field sites describe their interests and research in 8-minute videos, then participants join a live moderated Q&A session with the researchers. Events are recorded for asynchronous instructional use, and available to all at thevirtualfield.org/virtual-visits/live-from-the-field
Registration Link: https://cei.sonoma.edu/carbon
Date: April 12, 2021
Time: 11:00 am
End Time: 12:00 pm
Time Zone: PST