Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network

GLEON 2023 All Hands' Meeting - Poland
2023-06-25 - 2023-06-30 | Ryn, Poland, Plac Wolności 2, Ryn, 11-520, Poland
The in-person GLEON 2023 All Hands’ Meeting will be held in the Masurian Lake District, Ryn, Poland. Hosted by Julita Dunalska, University of Gdańsk.

GLEON 2023 Virtual All Hands' Meeting
2023-02-13 - 2023-02-17
The GLEON 2023 Virtual All Hands’ Meeting, 13-17 February 2023 was held in the GatherTown online meeting space following a similar program and weekly schedule for online meeting activities as before (see below for a Program Overview).
With the success of the GLEON 2021 Virtual Meeting and return to an in-person format at the GLEON 2022 Meeting at Lake George, New York, the Steering Committee recognized the value of both meeting formats to facilitate the inclusiveness of online meetings and the kinds of interactions at in-person meetings that are key to the network’s collaborative approach to lake science. They made a commitment to organize All Hands’ Meetings in both online and in-person formats in 2023.
The hashtag #GLEON2023Virtual will be used for social media.
Program Overview

Pre-recorded Workshops with live Q&A during the virtual meeting
Working Group and Ad hoc meetings
Poster Session
Daily plenary talks or panel discussions
Informal networking and social activities
Training on collaborative science and working group facilitation
Regional Meetings (tentative)

Preliminary Schedule
Registered meeting participants will receive an email a week before the meeting with connection instructions for the GatherTown meeting platform, a detailed program, and other meeting information. Here is a preliminary schedule of live sessions to help with planning your schedule for the week:

Day 1 – Monday, 13 February 2023: 13:00 – 17:00 UTC
Day 2 – Tuesday, 14 February 2023: 14:00 – 18:00 UTC
Day 3 – Wednesday, 15 February 2023: 12:00 – 16:00 UTC
Day 4 – Thursday, 16 February 2023: 10:00 – 14:00 UTC
Day 5 – Friday, 17 February 2023: 10:00 – 15:00 UTC (unstructured time for ad hoc meetings)
Regional Meetings

Workshops
The GLEON Student Association (GSA) workshop subcommittee organized pre-recorded workshops for asynchronous viewing. The online videos were uploaded in shorter modules and available several weeks before the GLEON 2023 Virtual Meeting and then published to the GLEON YouTube channel.
The topics will be the same as the workshops at the in-person GLEON 2022 Meeting at Lake George, NY:
Three simple guidelines for science communication by Ben Kraemer – Our careers and our science depend on our ability to communicate effectively. Communicating effectively helps others to learn from our science, recognize its message, and integrate that message into our collective scientific understanding. However, many scientists are under-trained in how to communicate their science effectively. This workshop will present three simple guidelines that can help us get funding, write well-structured manuscripts, and design effective posters and oral presentations. The workshop will also include “hands-on” activities using examples of your own writing and examples from published literature.
Introduction to real-time lake forecasting: learn, teach, and generate forecasts with Macrosystems EDDIE modules and the NEON Forecasting Challenge by Mary Lofton, Freya Olsson, and Cayelan Carey – The use of near-term, iterative forecasting – i.e., making forecasts of future ecosystem conditions with uncertainty that are constantly being updated as new data become available – is rapidly increasing within the lake research community. However, many scientists may not be familiar with forecasting methods, educational materials, or know how to develop their own forecasts. This workshop will tackle this gap! First, we will provide participants with all materials needed to learn and teach the basics of ecological forecasting with four stand-alone, modular activities that use National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) lake data and are delivered through R Shiny apps. Our educational modules are part of the Macrosystems EDDIE (Environmental Data-Driven Inquiry & Education) program, and each module comprises three ~1 hr activities which may be completed all at once or individually. We will provide an overview of the modules and helpful tips for teaching them in your classroom. Second, we will introduce you to the NEON Forecasting Challenge for lakes, a national-scale effort of generating real-time forecasts for lakes across the U.S. We will provide you with all of the information and materials so that you can start submitting to the Challenge when it opens in Winter 2023. Come join our effort!
GLEON-NEON Partnership by Kaelin Cawley – This workshop will serve as an introduction to the US National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and the data it generates and serves to the scientific community. The session will provide a background on the US NEON program, the types of data that are collected in terrestrial, stream, and lake sites, and tools available to access the data. Workshop participants will get a chance to work with GLEON and NEON scientists to dive into the data, make discoveries to understand complex limnological phenomena, and report back to others on what they found.
How to build a model in R by Robert Ladwig, Hilary Dugan, and Paul Hanson – Want to be a modeler but don’t know where to start? Do you find the word “model” scary? Wish you knew more about how to get started building models in R? If yes to any of the above, this workshop is for you. If you already have some R basics under your belt, we aim to add modeling to your R skillset. Learn what models are and how models are built, calibrated, and used for simplifying data and prediction.
A workshop Q&A session is tentatively scheduled during the virtual meeting live sessions. If you have any questions about workshops, please contact the GSA.
Virtual Meeting Technologies
GLEON used a variety of technologies during the G2023 Virtual Meeting, including GatherTown (for the main meeting platform), Slack (for interactive dialogue), and Zoom (for plenary sessions accessed via GatherTown or Zoom directly).
The GSA communications subcommittee set-up a Technical Support (#technical-support) channel in the GLEON Slack workspace to provide information and help answer questions about virtual meeting technologies. They have also prepared an article and “how to” video about using Slack.
Plenary Speakers

Day 1: Collaborative Research
Day 2: Dominique Roche, Marie Curie Global Fellow, Carleton University (Can) & Université de Neuchâtel (CH). Topic: Open Data Research
Day 3: Panel Discussion on Challenges and Opportunities for Lake Research in Underrepresented Regions
Day 4: Julita Dunalska, University of Gdańsk. Topic: Limnology in Poland and Preview of the GLEON 2023 All Hands’ Meeting in Poland

GLEON 2022 All Hands' Meeting
2022-10-30 - 2022-11-04 | Lake George, NY USA, 87 Silver Bay Rd, Silver Bay, NY, 12784, United States
The GLEON 2022 Meeting was held 30 October – 4 November, 2022 at the Silver Bay YMCA Conference and Family Retreat Center at Lake George, New York, USA.
Attendees arrived at Lake George by Saturday (students and workshop attendees) or Sunday (for the main meeting) and departed the following Friday and Saturday.
Note: Due to the consequences of the war in Ukraine, the GLEON Steering Committee decided in March 2022 to postpone the planned GLEON All Hands’ Meeting in Poland from June 2022 to June 2023 and the planned meeting in Indonesia from 2023 to 2025. Virtual All Hands’ Meetings were added to the schedule in 2023 and 2024. GLEON was grateful to the local partners on Lake George and Lake Champlain for hosting our 2022 meeting on short notice.

GLEON 2021 Virtual All Hands' Meeting
2021-10-04 - 2021-10-08 | Held in GLEON’s GatherTown online meeting space.
The GLEON 2021 Virtual All Hands’ Meeting was held 4-8 October 2021.

GLEON 21.5 Virtual Meeting
2020-10-18 - 2020-10-23
The GLEON 21.5 Virtual Meeting was held 18-23 October 2020.

GLEON 21 All Hands' Meeting
2019-11-04 - 2019-11-08 | Deerhurst Resort, 1235 Deerhurst Dr, Huntsville, Ontario, P1H 2E8, Canada
The GLEON 21 Meeting was held 4–8 November 2019 at Deerhurst Resort, Huntsville (Muskoka), Canada.

GLEON 20 All Hands' Meeting
2018-12-03 - 2018-12-07 | Rottnest Island, Australia, Rottnest Island, 6161, Australia
The GLEON 20 Meeting was held 3-7 December 2018 on Rottnest Island (near Perth), Australia.

GLEON 19 All Hands' Meeting
2017-11-27 - 2017-12-01 | Mohonk Lake, NY USA, 1000 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, NY, 12561, United States
The GLEON 19 Meeting was held 27 November – 1 December 2017 at Mohonk Lake, New York, USA.
