Hack For The Sea: Seattle

Take on challenges in marine science, research, and industry at The 1st Annual Hack for the Sea: Seattle!

A "hackathon" is an attempt to ideate and make progress toward solutions to shared challenges. Hack for the Sea is slightly different than many other hackathons in that:

1. It focuses on marine science exclusively

2. All submissions must be released as open source

3. It is meant to be a healthy, inclusive, and outcome-driven event.

This event will draw on technical expertise from subject matter experts as well as computer programmers to develop technology that will enable researchers and scientists to more effectively communicate their science, as well as streamline data collection and processing.

Challenge Statements

• Mobile focused app to allow users to photograph and submit time and geo-tagged images of marine debris to a centralized database, plus some other critical data you can't easily get from photos, like material, color, and measured size

Challenge via the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST - http://depts.washington.edu/coasst/) is a citizen science program housed at UW. Starting in 2016, COASST participants began to monitor coastal beaches in the Washington/Oregon area for marine debris, noting marine debris characteristics and returning those data together with a scaled photograph to COASST. To read the full statement visit http://bit.ly/2Qdw9na.

• To develop an app that lets a user put in a food or meal choice and sorts through a large data base on a number of measures of environmental impacts of different foods, producing instant results.

Challenge via Ray Hilborn (https://rayhblog.wordpress.com/), Professor in the School of  Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington specializing in natural resource management and conservation. To read the full statement visit http://bit.ly/2M8PPW3.

Judges

• Alejandra Quetzalli Olvera Novack - Founder of sheCodesNow: empowering women and all minorities/disabled by giving free programming classes, believing education should be free. 

Organizers

• Nicole Baker - Research Scientist at University of Washington.

• Ed Henry - Fisheries Data Coordinator at the International Pacific Halibut Commission

No-Lunches Provide

Contact Organizor for Sponsorship Opportunities