Andrew was a member of the first cohort of NEON Ambassadors, a diverse group of researchers and educators tasked with promoting the use of NEON data and growing the NEON user community. Together with fellow Ambassadors Jeff Atkins (USDA FS), Kelly Aho (Michigan State), Andrew Elmore (UMCES), and Danica Lombardozzi (Colorado State), he organized a virtual workshop for early career scientists in the summer of 2023. The workshop’s objective was to come up with guidelines for best practices in creating, validating, and using data products derived from NEON data. The workshop resulted in a paper that has just been published in Ecosphere, “Recommendations for developing, documenting, and distributing data products derived from NEON data.” The organizing committee thanks NEON for sponsoring the Ambassador program and this workshop.
