2018 All-Scientists’ Meeting Sessions and times are now confirmed. Locations may change, but will be updated on Sched.
**Please Note: If you sync you calendar, sessions will appear in your local time zone. This can be confusing until you arrive on site (when your local time zone will be the correct one).**
Long-term data are highly important for synthesis research, but we know from experience that original, primary research datasets cannot be synthesized until all data are understood and converted to a similar format. This session will introduce EDI’s work harmonizing data from diverse ecological community surveys into a standard, flexible template, and its use by the NEON project and LTER synthesis working groups. We will present our experiences reformatting community survey datasets and performing synthesis research with these products. We will follow with discussion and a hands-on session covering conversion of data, the use converted datasets with EDI’s R tools, or other aspects of time-series management.
