Dec 30, 2025 · To uniquely support 30+ years of site-level and continental-scale research, NEON locates sites across the U.S. to capture variability in ecological and climatological conditions.

NEON monitors ecosystems across the United States. Freshwater ecosystems include streams, rivers, and lakes while terrestrial ecosystems span from deserts to tropical forests.

NEON delivers hundreds of data products including organismal counts and measurements, water quality, energy fluxes, and remotely sensed vegetation indices. Data are free and open for all.

Explore and Download Data Products All of NEON's data products are free and open. Explore all of our available and pending data products.

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and proudly operated by Battelle, the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) program provides continental-scale data across the United …

The National Ecological Observatory Network is a major facility fully funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material …

In each Domain, NEON collects data about plants, animals, soil, nutrients, freshwater and the atmosphere using sensor measurements and field observations.

NEON's 47 terrestrial and 34 freshwater aquatic sites support studies that characterize ecological change and link individual local measurements to site-level and continental-scale questions about …

Welcome to the NEON Data Portal Get Started… The National Ecological Observatory Network provides open data to understand changing ecosystems. View our Observatory Status page to find …

In this 1-hour recorded webinar, NEON scientists Megan Jones and Claire Lunch lead participants through the NEON website and NEON data portal to learn about currently available online resources …