Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Users were confused why the Country field was included at all in the sample search criteria given the scope of the NEON program. Importantly this means that when searching for collections where all samples are undetermined, you have to put in locality criteria that don't make sense for NEON (e.g. site and domain are not searchable). This is especially problematic for collections which obviously do have some taxonomic restriction (e.g. plant foliar samples are plantae, microbial samples are microbial, bulk invertebrates are invertebrata) but we do not include anything beyond undetermined.
Describe the solution you'd like
USA automatically populated in the country field
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Users were confused why the Country field was included at all in the sample search criteria given the scope of the NEON program. Importantly this means that when searching for collections where all samples are undetermined, you have to put in locality criteria that don't make sense for NEON (e.g. site and domain are not searchable). This is especially problematic for collections which obviously do have some taxonomic restriction (e.g. plant foliar samples are plantae, microbial samples are microbial, bulk invertebrates are invertebrata) but we do not include anything beyond undetermined.
Describe the solution you'd like USA automatically populated in the country field