Hackweeks are participant-driven events that strive to create welcoming spaces for participants to learn new things, build community and gain hands-on experience with collaboration and team science. PACE Data Hackweek 2025 will take place in August 2025 (in-person).Applications open February 24, 2025 and close March 24, 2025. See the application form and the last event's website for more information about the purpose and format of the PACE Data Hackweeks.
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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!
NASA/GSFC & Science Systems and Applications, Inc (SSAI)
Dr. Anna Windle is an early career scientist, working as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in support of the NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite mission.
Dr. Pengwang Zhai got his PhD in physics in 2006 at Texas A&M University. He joined UMBC as a faculty member in 2014 after working as a couple of Post Docs and a research scientist at Science System Applications, Inc. at NASA Langley Research Center. His research is in the fundamental theories of radiative transfer, light scattering, and remote sensing.
NOAA & UW School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences
Eli is lead of the NOAA Open Science initiative. She is excited about the potential for open science and open collaboration to accelerate the incorporation of new ocean data products into fisheries research and management.
Dr. Guoqing Wang is a Ocean Biology Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) scientist in the Ocean Biology Processing Group at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
I tend to spread out in my interests in the very wide umbrella of ocean color, where I’ve spent several months at sea, characterized phytoplankton photophysiology, and developed bio-optical models. Currently, I’m very excited about uncertainty and all the information it contains!
NASA/GSFC/SED & Morgan State University & GESTAR II
Sean Foley works on the application of machine learning and computer vision to challenging problems in remote sensing. More specifically, he is interested in how computer vision can better our understanding of 3D cloud structure.
Morgaine has a background in coastal and estuarine biological oceanography with an emphasis on satellite oceanography, harmful algal bloom ecology, and water quality. Currently she works in the Ocean Ecology Lab at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) as the PACE Mission Applications Lead.
NASA/GSFC & Science Systems and Applications, Inc (SSAI)
Skye Caplan works on the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission as a terrestrial scientist. She is responsible for applying PACE satellite data to land surface observation questions.
NASA/GSFC & Science Systems and Applications, Inc (SSAI)
Dr. E. Riley Blocker is a senior research scientist at SSAI working on-site as a post-doctoral scholar at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Ocean Ecology Laboratory (OEL).
Dr. Meng Gao is a research scientist in the Ocean Ecology Laboratory (OEL) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). He currently supports NASA's PACE mission in advancing aerosol and ocean color remote sensing using PACE multi-angle polarimeters.
Patrick is working with Emmanuel Boss and Yoav Lehahn as a Zuckerman Postdoctoral Fellow focused on marine biophysical interactions and ocean optics. Patrick’s research uses satellites, drones, and in situ optical techniques to understand the interplay of physics and ecology in the ocean.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center & Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, UMD
Tasha is the Co-Founder of CryoCloud. Her research focuses on detecting ocean heat transport and glacier-ocean interactions with remote sensing (especially thermal infrared). In her research, she also works on cloud-based, open-sourced workflows for advancing data integration and machine learning techniques.
