Tag: Waterhackweek

• Reflecting on a Novel Year of Virtual Hackweeks

  

  By: Jane Koh In early March 2020, as the dimensions of the Covid-19 pandemic started to become clear, the Waterhackweek organizing team was only three weeks out from hosting its in-person event when they made the tough decision to postpone the hackweek until August. They joined several other hackweeks, all faced with the challenge of…

• Waterhackweek 2020 Reflections

  

  From August 31st to September 4th, 37 global participants logged on to take part in Waterhackweek (WHW) 2020. With the hackweek originally scheduled to take place in person in March, the organizers experienced the challenge of extending their efforts to recruit a new set of participants and experiment with ways of moving the collaborative event…

• Participants reflect on first Waterhackweek

  

  April 30, 2019 The eScience Institute and the UW Freshwater Initiative co-hosted the first Waterhackweek, a five-day collaborative event for freshwater-related data science Mar. 25 – 29, 2019. We asked participants to give us their insight on the event, and three of them responded. Here are their thoughts. ———— Zahra Sharifnezhadazizi, PhD candidate, Department of…

• eScience Institute, Freshwater Initiative host first Waterhackweek

  

  April 22, 2019 The first Waterhackweek, a five-day collaborative event for freshwater-related data science, was held at the University of Washington (UW) in partnership with the eScience Institute and the UW Freshwater Initiative Mar. 25 – 29, 2019. The event received funding from the National Science Foundation CyberTraining Program. Participants hailed from the UW and…