PACE Data Hackweek 2025

3 August - 7 August
UMBC, Baltimore, MD
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About PACE Data Hackweek

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.

2025 Event Starts In:

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Schedule

All times listed below are UTC -4 (Eastern Daylight Time). You might want to consult this Time Zone Map to figure out times in your location.

Opens @ 7:30

Breakfast

@ True Grits

8:30

Warm-up

Welcome, Introductions, and Housekeeping

Presenter(s)
Anna Windle

9:00

Science Lecture

PACE Mission Overview

Presenter(s)
Jeremy Werdell

9:45

Break

Coffee & Tea

10:00

Code Tutorial

CryoCloud & Earthdata Cloud

Presenter(s)
Anna Windle

10:45

Code Demo

Collaborative Coding, for Science!

Presenter(s)
Eli Holmes
Ian Carroll

11:30

Group Projects

Orientation

12:00

Lunch

@ True Grits

13:00

Group Projects

Project Pitches

14:30

Break

Coffee & Tea

14:45

Group Projects

Group Alignment

16:30

Break

Free Time

Closes @ 18:30

Dinner

@ True Grits

19:00

Evening Activity

Joy of Painting

Presenter(s)
Bob Ross

Opens @ 7:30

Breakfast

@ True Grits

8:30

Warm-up

Announcements & Group Check-in

9:00

Science Lecture

Biodiversity from sPACE: insights from ecological theory

Presenter(s)
Kelsey Bisson

9:45

Break

Coffee & Tea

10:00

Code Tutorial

Visualizing Satellite Data

Presenter(s)
Carina Poulin

10:45

Group Projects

Work Time

12:00

Lunch

@ True Grits

13:00

Group Projects

Work Time

14:30

Break

Coffee & Tea

14:45

Group Projects

Work Time

15:45

Code Demo

Matchups of in-situ Data With Satellite Data

Presenter(s)
James Allen

16:30

Break

Free Time

Closes @ 18:30

Dinner

@ True Grits

19:00

Evening Activity

Fireside Chat with NASA Program Managers

Opens @ 7:30

Breakfast

@ True Grits

8:30

Warm-up

Announcements & Group Check-in

9:00

Science Lecture

Presenter(s)
Brent McBride

9:45

Break

Coffee & Tea

10:00

Code Tutorial

Using the SeaDAS Command Line Tools

Presenter(s)
Riley Blocker

10:45

Group Projects

Work Time

12:00

Lunch

@ True Grits

13:00

Group Projects

Work Time

14:30

Break

Coffee & Tea

14:45

Group Projects

Work Time

15:45

Code Demo

Machine Learning with Satellite Data

Presenter(s)
Kamal Aryal
Pengwang Zhai

16:30

Break

Free Time

17:00

Dinner

Crab Feast @ Patapsco Valley State Park

Opens @ 7:30

Breakfast

@ True Grits

8:30

Warm-up

Announcements & Group Check-in

9:00

Science Lecture

Presenter(s)
Lorraine Remer

9:45

Break

Coffee & Tea

10:00

Code Tutorial

Parallel and Distributed Computing

Presenter(s)
Ian Carroll

10:45

Group Projects

Work Time

12:00

Lunch

@ True Grits

13:00

Group Projects

Work Time

14:30

Break

Coffee & Tea

14:45

Group Projects

Work Time

15:45

Code Demo

Data Products from Multi-angle Polarimeters

Presenter(s)
Meng Gao
Sean Foley

16:30

Break

Free Time

Closes @ 18:30

Dinner

@ True Grits

19:00

Evening Activity

Nerd Nite

Opens @ 7:30

Breakfast

@ True Grits

8:30

Warm-up

Announcements & Group Check-in

9:00

Science Lecture

PACE Terrestrial Products – a New View of Ecosystem Traits, Phenology, and Function

Presenter(s)
Fred Huemmrich

9:45

Break

Coffee & Tea

10:00

Code Demo

Environments and Containers for Reusable Projects

Presenter(s)
Morgaine McKibben

11:30

Group Projects

Work Time

12:00

Lunch

@ True Grits

13:00

Group Projects

Work Time

14:00

Group Projects

Presentations

14:30

Break

Coffee & Tea

14:45

Group Projects

Presentations

Closes @ 18:30

Dinner

@ True Grits

19:00

Evening Activity

Trivia

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!
Anna Windle
Research Scientist
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Ian Carroll
Research Scientist
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Jeremy Werdell
Research Scientist
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Carina Poulin
Scientific Designer
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Pengwang Zhai
Associate Professor
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Eli Holmes
Research Scientist
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Guoqing Wang
Research Scientist
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James Allen
Assistant Research Scientist
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Sean Foley
Data Scientist
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Morgaine McKibben
Research Scientist
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Skye Caplan
Remote Sensing Scientist
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Riley Blocker
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Bastiaan van Diedenhoven
Senior Scientist
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Heather Benway
Executive Director
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Kamal Aryal
PhD Candidate
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Mai Maheigan
Community Engagement Manager
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Meng Gao
Data Scientist
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Piyushkumar Patel
Scientist
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Matthew Kehrli
Lead Research Scientist
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Kelsey Bisson
Program Scientist
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Lorraine Remer
Research Professor
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Brent McBride
Instrument Scientist
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Fred Huemmrich
Research Professor
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