EFI Terrestrial Carbon and Water Forecast Challenge
Channel: NEON Science
Date: 2020-12-08

The Ecological Forecasting Initiative’s forecasting challenge is open to any individual or team and is asking participants to make predictions for data being collected by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). The forecasting challenge is similar to a data science challenge or model-intercomparison project except that this is a true forecast -- the validation data hasn’t been collected yet at the time predictions are made. The challenge is open to any modeling approach (statistical, process-based, machine learning, etc) and involves participants from around the world and across a wide spectrum of backgrounds (students, research labs, non-academics, etc.), not just ecologists. For more information please visit https://ecoforecast.org and click on NEON Forecast Challenge.