[Medin_dacwg] Your invite to the Met Office Climate Data Challenge

Tue Feb 16 10:28:43 GMT 2021

Dear MEDIN DACs,

The Met Office is hosting a virtual hackathon next month. One of their chosen themes is "marine and coastal".
I've been promoting MEDIN and the MEDIN DACs as a key source for marine data at the event and it would be great if some of your technical experts could attend to make sure that attendees can make the most of your data.  The event has the potential to be quite high impact (with outputs being showcased at COP26). I'd be grateful if you could let me know if you plan to send anyone to this event.

Registration details are at the bottom of the invite below.

I'm attending a planning meeting this afternoon and will know more then, but please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Clare

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Helping people stay safe and thrive in a changing climate

The Met Office and partners are hosting a virtual hackathon aimed at finding new ways to use data to help towards tackling climate change challenges and developing sustainable opportunities. We would like you to join us and other key stakeholders for the two-day event on 16-17 March.

If you would like to grow your network by working alongside other experts to tackle some of the most challenging issues of the day, the Climate Data Challenge is the perfect opportunity. The event will bring people with diverse skill sets and backgrounds together to make progress on a shared project with the ultimate aim of making society more resilient. This is likely to include combining information from a range of datasets to create new tools as well as thinking about how best to visualise the outputs to make them as engaging as possible.

While hackathons typically attract software engineers, data scientists and scientists, we believe that everyone has a part to play. So, if you have a passion for one of the themes below and feel that you have relevant skills or knowledge, then please sign up.

Challenge themes:

1. Marine and coastal

2. Nature-based solutions

3. Sustainable development

Working in teams, the most relevant outputs will have the opportunity to be showcased at COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021, which will attract Heads of State, policy makers, scientists and other stakeholders from almost every nation in the world.

The hackathon will be delivered virtually and make use of a range of tools to share information and encourage collaboration between teams.

On the afternoon of Tuesday 2 March we will be hosting a virtual pre-event where you can find out more about the challenges, form teams and learn about the data that may be relevant.

If you are keen to play an active role in this event, please register by clicking on the link below. Please ensure that you ringfence this time in your calendar as spaces are limited. It would be helpful if you could also forward this email onto others within your organisation who may be interested in participating.

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Further information on the Climate Data Challenge can be found on GitHub<https://github.com/COP26-Hackathon/Met-Office-Climate-Data-Challenge-March_2021/wiki>. This will be updated over the coming weeks with additional information.

If you are interested in the outputs from the Climate Data Challenge but are unable to take part, please email us at cop26 at metoffice.gov.uk<mailto:cop26 at metoffice.gov.uk> so that we can keep you informed.

All are welcome at this event. The Met Office recognises that Great Minds Don’t Think Alike and is committed to working towards being a more diverse and inclusive organisation. We see diversity as a positive and value visible and invisible individual differences.

If the link above doesn’t work for any reason, send an email to cop26 at metoffice.gov.uk<mailto:cop26 at metoffice.gov.uk> with the subject 'Met Office Climate Data Challenge' and we will be in touch to enable you to register.

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