Tools for forecasting populations and communities: A hands-on example from the NEON Forecasting Challenge using ground beetle abundance and richness 

• Location: Fields Institute, Room 230
• Workshop Leads:
• Tera Del Prior, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle
• Eric Sokol, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle
• Wei Fang, Pace University
• Abstract: Participants in this workshop will learn about forecasting ground beetle abundance and richness across NEON terrestrial sites. The workshop will include code-along instructions to create and submit a simple forecast to the EFI RCN NEON forecasting challenge platform. 

Tools for forecasting soil carbon fluxes: building an independent forecast challenge using NEON soil data products 

• Location: Fields Institute, Room 309
• Workshop Leads:
• John Zobitz, Augsburg University
• Eric Sokol, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle
• Tera Del Prior, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle
• Abstract: This workshop demonstrates how the cyberinfrastructure developed from NEON forecast challenges was adapted to create a forecast of soil carbon fluxes. It will highlight opportunities to contribute models to this emerging effort.