What to Expect

Our hackweeks focus on applied, hands-on learning, with participants engaging in extended periods of small-group work. Our tutorials are designed to offer a broad snapshot of data science tools to support your applied investigations. Due to the relatively short duration of our events, we are not able to provide comprehensive, in-depth training in fundamental tools. Rather, our goal is to inform you about the types of tools we think are best suited to working with your datasets, leaving details of implementation to be supported through peer-learning and office hours.

In this hackweek we will focus on software development in support of the ICESat-2 mission. We’ll center most of our work on streamlining data access patterns within the NASA earthaccess library. Our goal is to make it easier for people to access ICESat-2 data and make informed decisions on which product, and which software solution, best supports their reserach needs. We will also think about how to integrate data across multiple (especially NISAR, but also GEDI, SnowEx, etc.).

Due to the invitational nature of this particular hackweek, and the well-defined set of tasks, we will be focusing most activity on project work. There will be a few short tutorials offered by colleagues from the UW Scientific Software Engineering Center.

Prerequisites

All tutorials and project work will assume participants are familiar with Python-based computing in the geosciences as described on the Pythia Foundations website.