PACE Hackweek 2025 :: Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry

The NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Project and Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program are hosting a second PACE Data Hackweek. This is a one-week social coding event that 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.

3-7 August 2025
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)

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WORKSHOP REPORT • The PACE Data Hackweek Launches a New Wave of Open Science: How We Did It (Twice), and Why

Windle, A.E., I. Carroll, C. Poulin, S. Caplan, and P.J. Werdell. 2026. The PACE Data Hackweek launches a new wave of open science: How we did it (twice), and why. Oceanography 39(2), https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2026.e204.