Some initiatives with scope and goals overlapping OceanHackWeek

[emiliom]

There are other initiatives and events out there that overlap with the scope and goals of OceanHackWeek. Here I wanted to point to two of them. One of them, the AEMON-J Hacking Limnology Workshop and DSOS Virtual Summit, has been taking place annually since 2020. It leans more towards limnology but does span marine science, too. I'll highlight it later in another post in this thread. Here, I wanted to first mention another 2022 event.

2022 PICES Ocean Big Data Virtual Summer School, 8-19 August, 2022

The North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) (via the PICES Advisory Panel on North Pacific Coastal Ocean Observing Systems, AP-NPCOOS) and Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) conducted the 2022 PICES Ocean Big Data Virtual Summer School, on 8-19 August, 2022. As advertised:

This training activity is aimed at early career ocean professionals, from advanced graduate students to researchers in their first professional appointments. Participants will learn skills and gain hands-on experience in the identification of trends, events and features in large oceanographic time-series datasets, including hydrographic, HF Radar and fisheries acoustics data.

There is a nice write up of the event in the PICES Press Winter 2023 newsletter, page 45. Quoting from that article:

ONC hosted 27 early-career scientists from 10 countries — including all six PICES-member countries [USA, Canada, Russia, Republic of Korea, China and Japan] as well as Brazil, France, India, and Nigeria — for a PICES Summer School on “Ocean Big Data.”

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participants completed their data analysis projects in different computer environments (locally, virtual machines, and Jupyter Notebook) and in different programming languages (Python, MATLAB, and R).

The organization of this event has a lot in common with OceanHackWeek, with tutorials and projects, though the tutorials also covered more conceptual and scientific topics than we typically do, in addition to hands-on, how-to tutorials.

I don't know if there are plans for follow ups in the future. Also, unfortunately as far as I can tell they don't seem to have a public web site.