Cedric Hagen¹, Alison Post², Katya Jay³, Michael SanClements⁴, Jaana K Back⁵, Thomas G Bornman⁶, Alex Cerón-González⁷, Phumlile Cotiyane-Pondo⁸, Rosmery Cruz⁹, Krutika Deshpande¹⁰, Gregor T Feig¹¹, Christopher Florian¹, Tyler Karns¹², Connor Keating¹², Werner Leo Kutsch¹³, Christine M Laney¹⁴, Hank W Loescher¹⁵, Paula Mabee¹, Michael Mirtl^16,17, Beryl Morris¹⁸, Bailey Murphy¹⁹, Thomas Ohnemus²⁰, Lilit Pogosyan²¹, Angela Ruth Possinger²², Mikkel Quam²³, Andrew D Richardson²⁴, Samuel Villarreal²⁵, Benjamin L Ruddell¹⁰, J. Alexander Siggers²⁶, Melinda Dianne Smith²⁷, Tyson Lee Swetnam²⁸, Christian Poppe²⁹, Qiaoyun Xie³⁰ and Adam Young¹, (1)Battelle, National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (4)National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Battelle, Boulder, United States, (5)University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, (6)Nelson Mandela University, South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), Elwandle Coastal Node, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, (7)Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Archaeology, Brussels, Belgium, (8)South African Environmental Observation Network, Elwandle Node, Gqeberha, South Africa, (9)University of Delaware, Plant and Soil Sciences, Newark, DE, United States, (10)Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, United States, (11)South African Weather Service, now at South African Environmental Observation Network, Pretoria, South Africa, (12)Battelle, AS&T, Columbus, United States, (13)ICOS Headoffice, Helsinki, Finland, (14)National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle, Boulder, United States, (15)Battelle - National Ecological Observatory Network, CEO Office, Boulder, United States, (16)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH, Leipzig, Germany, (17)Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Environment Agency Austria, Vienna, Austria, (18)University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, (19)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (20)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Leipzig, Germany, (21)Instituto de Ecología AC, Red de Ecología Funcional, Xalapa, VL, Mexico, (22)Virginia Tech, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Blacksburg, United States, (23)NSF ASCEND Engine in Colorado and Wyoming, Research and Development, Fort Collins, United States, (24)Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Flagstaff, United States, (25)Centro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados S.C., Sustainable Engineering, Durango, Mexico, (26)Colorado State University, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, United States, (27)Colorado State University, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (28)University of Arizona, CyVerse, Tucson, United States, (29)Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Julich, Germany, (30)The University of Western Australia, School of Engineering, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia