Polar Sciences Cluster Online Hackathon 2026 Agenda

Suggested Hackathon Workflow¶

Pick a science question, user workflow or define your own.
Browse the dataset catalogue and open the relevant access notebooks.
Use the existing datasets and cube to answer the question
Use the file-format notebooks as guidence when you need to prepare a new datasets to be added to be combined with the existing datasets or cube.
Put your code in Hackathon Code/ and keep generated data out of Git.
Submit your work as a pull request with a short description of the question, datasets, methods, and outputs.

Time	Activity
14:00-14:10	ESA, EarthCODE and Webex intros (Artemis)
14:10-14:30	Introductions
14:30-14:45	Objectives for Hackathon (15 mins) (Martin) Setting the scene Goals for the meeting
14:45-15:00	Overview Antarctica Datacube (15 mins) (Krasen) Datasets included Examples
15:00-15:10	Break
15:10-15:20	Introduce shared environment/platform (technical support) (10 mins) (platform provider)
15:20-16:00	Play around with datacube (40 mins)
16:00-16:10	Break
16:10-16:15	First impression feedback
16:15-16:55	Task: Quality assessment of datacube; usefulness, Is any data missing? What new data to add? Plotting/analyse your favourite datasets
16:55-17:00	Final feedback day 1

Time	Activity
14:00-14:30	Present dataset first look (each) (30 mins)
14:30-15:00	Building Antarctica Datacube Earthcode tools: Visualization (5-10 mins) (Krasen) Example notebooks: adding new datasets to the datacube (transforming data) (10 mins) (Krasen) Making data OPEN (Amy & Artemis) (10-15mins)
15:00-15:10	Break
15:10-15:20	Motivating science questions
15:20-16:00	Individual/group work
16:00-16:10	Break
16:10-16:20	Demo of DTC Ice Sheets notebooks/dashboard (10 mins)
16:20-1700	Individual/group work (<1 hr) Final feedback day 2

Time	Activity
14:00-14:20	Catch up (30 mins)
14:20-15:15	Individual/group work (~1 hr)
15:15-16:40	Final presentations (~1.5 hr)
16:40-17:00	Feedback: What can we do at the in-person hackathon