Fourth ICESat-2 Cloud Computing Hackweek at the University of Washington eScience Institute

This August 2023 event produced a series of tutorials, developed by volunteer instructors and presented during the event. A continuing focus of the event was considerations for cloud-native workflows (such as cloud-optimized data) and building skills around accessing ICESat-2 data in the cloud. During the Hackweek, teams of attendees worked on projects related to their domain interests and learning goals.

Tutorials Zenodo badge

The tutorials from this event live within a dedicated Jupyter Book and are published on Zenodo. You can run the tutorials by following the instructions here. The published tutorial repo also includes links to presentation slides and videos of the recorded presentations.

Tutorial Topics:

  1. CryoCloud

  2. ICESat-2 Mission Overview and Data

  3. Open source development/Object Oriented Programming

  4. Cloud data access and data formats

  5. Best Practices for Collaborative development

  6. Application: snow depth

  7. Application: bathymetry

  8. Application: Visualization and Integration

  9. Application: inland hydrology

  10. Application: sea ice

  11. Application: ICESat-2 integration with GrIMP data

Projects

In an effort to improve learning outcomes, we asked participants to summarize their accomplishments in a structured project readme, some of which are drafts, and did not record the final presentations.

Project titles:

  • 3D Lakes

  • surfit

  • dzdt

  • grounding zones

  • h5cloud

  • Everything Anywhere All At Once

  • seabath