Community News and Announcements
POSTED FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Announcing the 2025 PACE Hackweek
The NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Project and the Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program are hosting a one-week social coding event (a.k.a hackweek). The event will include a combination of lectures, tutorials, and project work (data processing and analysis) that will kick-start research using the Earth science data streams generated by the OCI, SPEXone, and HARP2 instruments on board the observatory. Other projects that combine PACE data with other satellite data, such as from EarthCARE, TROPOMI, or SWOT are also encouraged. Participants will gain behind-the-scenes access to all aspects of PACE.
- Data and compute resources will be provided on an AWS cloud platform, and tutorials will be conducted in Python. Participants must have some experience (i.e. able to work independently) with Python in order to benefit from this Hackweek. *We will also consider applicants who are proficient in a different programming language who are transitioning to Python.*
- We anticipate accepting ~40 participants (from student to professional career stages)
- All lectures and tutorials will be recorded and made available on the course web page.
Course Dates & Location
3-7 August 2025
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Application Deadline
March 24, 2025
POSTED FEBRUARY 28, 2025
IOCCG Community Survey — Survey of Ocean Colour Instruments & Opportunities across Latin America and the Caribbean
Dear Latin American and the Caribbean Ocean Colour Community,
In an effort to increase communication, collaboration, and validation data coverage on ocean colour across Latin America and the Caribbean, we have prepared a short survey. It seeks to gather information from various groups across the region on their existing optical instrumentation, measurements and funding opportunities, as well as existing collaborations and capacity-building activities related to ocean colour. We aim to detect gaps and plan actions to fill those gaps across the region.
Click here to take the survey.
Please complete the survey as soon as possible. The link for the survey will remain open, although we hope to have most responses before 1 June 2025. Feel free to share this email with your colleagues in the region.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Ana Dogliotti (Argentina) and Aurea Ciotti (Brazil)
