Tag: Dino Bektesevic

• 2022 DSSG Teams Present Their Final Project Results

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell Student fellows at the University of Washington Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program presented the results of their 10-week summer projects on August 17th. The fellows conducted their work on four interdisciplinary teams, working with project leads and data scientists.  The DSSG program at the eScience Institute brings together students from universities around the country with data…

• Satellite Streaks in Astronomical Images

  

  Project leads: Dino Bektešević, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy; and Meredith Rawls, Research Scientist, Department of Astronomy, and Data-intensive Research And Cosmology (DiRAC) Fellow, University of Washington Data scientist: Vaughn Iverson DSSG fellows: Abhilash Biswas, Kilando Chambers, Ashley Santos Participant bios available here. Project Summary: We are on the cusp of fundamentally altering the night sky, which has been a source…

• Interdisciplinary Team Creates Tool to Detect and Quantify Satellite Streaks

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell  The recent growth of low-Earth-orbit satellites is posing a threat to a range of groups who rely on the sky for science, spirituality and tradition, by leaving a plethora of bright streaks across the night sky. A project team at the University of Washington Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program is…