NASA Earth Sciences & UW Hackweek 2024

19 Aug - 23 Aug University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Tutorials + peer-to-peer learning + project based teamwork

About NASA Earth Sciences & UW Hackweek

The eScience Institute at the University of Washington is excited to present the next evolution in our annual hackweek program. 2024 will be our first combined event, with projects using data from the NASA ICESat-2 and SnowEx missions, and with specialists from the NSF GeoSMART program providing training in Machine Learning

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SnowEx Track ICESat-2 Track GeoSMART Track

2024 Event Starts In:

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Schedule

All times listed below are UTC -7 (Pacific Daylight Time). You might want to consult this Time Zone Map to figure out times in your location.

9:00 - 9:30

 

Plenary: Welcome!

Welcome to the event

Tutorial Lead(s)
Anthony Arendt
Mark Welden-Smith

9:30 - 10:15

 

Plenary: Best Practices for Collaborative Development

Effective teamwork and collaborations

Tutorial Lead(s)
Naomi Alterman

10:15 - 11:00

 

Plenary: CryoCloud

CryoCloud Initiative for open science

Tutorial Lead(s)
Tasha Snow

11:00 - 11:15

 

BREAK

11:15 - 12:00

 

Tutorial: SnowEx Mission Overview

All about SnowEx!

Tutorial Lead(s)
HP Marshall

11:15 - 12:00

 

Tutorial: ICESat-2 Mission Overview

All about ICESat-2 and the data products

Tutorial Lead(s)
Tyler Sutterley

12:00 - 13:00

 

LUNCH

13:00 - 13:45

 

Tutorial: Cloud computing and cloud-optimized data formats

Tutorial Lead(s)
Aimeee Barciauskas

14:00 - 14:45

 

Plenary: Project Formation and Logistics

Forming projects

Tutorial Lead(s)
Charley Haley

15:00 - 17:00

 

PROJECT TIME

9:00 - 9:45

 

Tutorial: Data Access

Accessing NASA Data (especially SnowEx and ICESat-2)

Tutorial Lead(s)
Mikala Beig

9:45 - 10:30

 

Tutorial: SnowEx Database

Using the SnowEx Database

Tutorial Lead(s)
Micah Johnson
Micah Sandusky

9:45 - 10:30

 

Tutorial: accessing ICESat-2 data

icepyx, SlideRule

Tutorial Lead(s)
JP Swinski

10:30 - 10:45

 

BREAK

10:45 - 12:40

 

PROJECT TIME

12:00 - 13:00

 

LUNCH

13:00 - 17:00

 

PROJECT TIME

9:00 - 9:45

 

Tutorial: SWESARR

All about SWESARR

Tutorial Lead(s)
Dylan Boyd
Elodie Macorps

9:00 - 9:45

 

Tutorial: ICESat-2 and GEDI

Tutorial Lead(s)
Aaron Freisz

9:45 - 10:30

 

Tutorial: LiDAR & GPR

LiDAR and GPR

Tutorial Lead(s)
Randall Bonnell

9:45 - 10:30

 

Tutorial: Machine learning with ICESat-2 data

Tutorial Lead(s)
Wei Ji Leong?
Ellie Abrahams?

10:30 - 10:45

 

BREAK

10:45 - 11:30

 

Tutorial: Albedo AVIRIS-NG

All about Albedo

Tutorial Lead(s)
Anton Surunis
Brent Wilder

11:30 - 12:00

 

Project Updates

12:00 - 13:00

 

LUNCH

13:00 - 17:00

 

PROJECT TIME

9:00 - 9:45

 

Plenary: From notebooks to packages

All about python packaging

Tutorial Lead(s)
Don Setiawan and Romina Piunno

9:45 - 10:30

 

Optional: impromptu tutorials

Things not in the original schedule worth sharing based on interest

Tutorial Lead(s)
Awesome People

10:30 - 10:45

 

BREAK

10:45 - 11:45

 

Project Updates

12:00 - 13:00

 

LUNCH

13:00 - 17:00

 

PROJECT TIME

9:00 - 9:45

 

Plenary: Open Science Discussion

Open science best practices

Tutorial Lead(s)
Andy Barrett?

10:00 - 12:00

 

Project Wrap-up

12:00 - 13:00

 

LUNCH

13:00 - 14:00

 

Project Wrap-up

14:00 - 15:00

 

Plenary: Closing remarks

Event closing ceremony

Tutorial Lead(s)
Anthony Arendt
Mark Welden-Smith

Meet the team

The people on this page have helped organize the hackweek. You'll find a few specializations listed per person if you're wondering who to reach out to during the event!
Suman Shekhar
Graduate Research Assistant
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Aaron Friesz
Science Coordination Lead
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Adrian Marziliano
PhD Student
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Aimee Barciauskas
Cloud Engineer
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Anthony Arendt
Senior Data Science Fellow
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Anton Surunis
PhD Student
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Ben Smith
Researcher
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Charley Haley
Social Strategist and Collaboration Architect
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Daniel Howard
HPC Consultant
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Don Setiawan
Research Software Engineer
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Eli Holmes
NOAA Fisheries Open Science lead
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Ibrahim Alabi
PhD Candidate
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J. Michelle Hu
Research Scientist
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Jensen Ziheng Sun
Research Associate Professor
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Jessica Scheick
Research Assistant Professor
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Joachim Meyer
Senior Research Scholar
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Justin Pflug
Assistant Research Scientist
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Karthik Venkataramani
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Kehan Yang
Computational Geoscientist
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Megan Mason
Research Scientist
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Micah Sandusky
CoFounder & CEO
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Michael Studinger
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Morgan Sanger
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Naomi Alterman
Education Consultant
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Jesse Pisel
Director of Data Science Challenges
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Quinn Brencher
graduate student
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Randall Bonnell
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Scott Henderson
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Shashank Bhushan
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Steven Pestana
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Tasha Snow
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Tyler Sutterley
Senior Research Scientist
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Wei Ji Leong
Machine Learning Engineer
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Zach Fair
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Our Sponsors

This event was made possible by the NASA ICESat-2 and SnowEx missions, the National Science Foundation (Awards #1829585, #2117834), and the eScience Institute. Cloud computing infrastructure provided by CryoCloud.
eScience Institute
CryoCloud
NASA ICESat-2 Mission
SnowEx
National Science Foundation