ICESat-2 Hackweek

We’ve now run 3 Hackweeks focused on NASA’s ICESat-2 Sensor! Check out this summary article https://escience.washington.edu/evolving-the-hackweek-model-with-icesat-2-2022/ and see below for some specifics from our 2020 virtual event:

ICESat-2 2020

ICESat-2 Hackweek 2020 was offered virtually June 8 - 18, 2020 with over 80 participants. There were 12 tutorial sessions offered.

Projects

Here are the projects carried out during the 2020 ICESat-2 hackweek:

Project Name	Github Repo	final presentation
Seasonal Snow	https://github.com/ICESAT-2HackWeek/SeasonalSnow	video
unsupervised	https://github.com/ICESAT-2HackWeek/surface_classification	video
FirnAndMelt	https://github.com/ICESAT-2HackWeek/FirnAndMelt	video
leading_to_phytoplankton	https://github.com/ICESAT-2HackWeek/leading_to_phytoplankton	video
icepyx	https://github.com/ICESAT-2HackWeek/icepyx_team	video
CloudMask	https://github.com/ICESAT-2HackWeek/CloudMask	video
overcast	https://github.com/ICESAT-2HackWeek/overcast	video
crossovers	https://github.com/ICESAT-2HackWeek/crossovers	video
surface_velocity	https://github.com/ICESAT-2HackWeek/surface_velocity	video
Assimilation	https://github.com/ICESAT-2HackWeek/Assimilation	video

Evaluation

Participants reported increases in their levels of understanding of tutorial content across the hackweek (Fig. 1):

Fig. 1 Changes in levels of understanding tutorial content before and after the 2020 ICESat-2 hackweek (32 responses).

Of the 32 respondents to our post-hackweek survey, all reported that this hackweek was useful for their career and that they learned things that improved their day to day research (Fig. 2). 98 percent of respondents agreed that the skills learned would be useful outside of academia.

Fig. 2 Impacts of SnowEx hackweek 2021 on participant careers and research (32 responses).