A vast underwater network of systems and sensors are capturing rich, never-before-accessible data from the mysterious world beneath our oceans.
To build a stronger community of scientists using that data to make new discoveries, oceanographers will convene at the UW for Ocean Hackweek, August 20-24, 2018, five intensive days of collaborative investigations and tutorials in modern data analysis tools and techniques.
The hackweek aims to close the gap between the massive amounts of data being continuously streamed to shore and the ability of oceanographers to analyze that data, said Rob Fatland, director of research computing in UW Information Technology and an Oceanhackweek co-organizer. “We’ve become increasingly talented at gathering data,” he said, creating what he calls “a deluge of data.”
Without data science methodologies and computational tools, scientists are at a disadvantage when it comes to making sense of so much data.

Wu-Jung Lee is a research associate at the Applied Physics Lab.

This is what led Wu-Jung Lee, a research associate at the Applied Physics Lab (APL) who faced this same gap two years ago, to spearhead Oceanhackweek (and an earlier Cable Array Hackweek). She had seen the successes of other hackweeks — Astrohackweek, Neurohackweek,   Geohackweek — all held at the eScience Institute.
The overarching goal of hackweeks is to provide opportunities for researchers to develop data science capabilities, enhance collaboration and improve reproducible science in order to accelerate research.
“I could see what I wanted to know, but my skill set was limited,” Lee said.
That changed in 2017, when Lee joined a 10-week Incubator program in the eScience Institute that equipped her with data science techniques and computational tools she needed to quickly sift through acoustic data and draw conclusions.
“If a participant in Oceanhackweek can have that same inspiration I had in the incubator, then we are successful,” she said. “As I see it, you change the individual so they can change other people.”

Participants at the Cabled Array Hackweek in Feb. 2018. Photo courtesy of Valentina Staneva.

The August event will be the result of a collaborative effort by interdisciplinary researchers and data scientists. In addition to Fatland and Lee, the organizers include Amanda Tan (UW-IT/eScience Institute), Valentina Staneva (eScience Institute), Friedrich Knuth (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), Aaron Marburg (APL) and Don Setiawan (School of Oceanography). The event is supported by more than $100,000 in grant funding from the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, the nonprofit organization that operates the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a network of underwater remote sensing systems. Funding for the initiative comes from the National Science Foundation.
The organizers received 143 applications from people at universities around the world, in industry, and at governmental organizations. The number was three times as many applicants as they had room for in the hackweek.
The popularity, explained Lee, isn’t surprising.
“It’s not just shaking hands at a conference. It’s a much deeper connection. Half of the hackweek is devoted to project time. We bring all these people with very different interdisciplinary interests and backgrounds together; you know there will be interesting things that result.”

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