GO2DAT-Hackathon

The Hackathon on "Generating and Exploring Ideas for Developing a Global Ocean Oxygen Database and ATlas (GO2DAT)" encourages ocean oxygen data sharing, the use of new digital technologies and an entrepreneurial spirit. It will improve the oxygen data quality assurance and quality control. The resultant projects will enhance the value of a marine oxygen database, which is needed for developing and improving models and information products for decision-making processes.

The GO2DAT-Hackathon

• Brings together professionals and students who can enrich their practices and their networks.
• Encourages the building of multidisciplinary teams that combine their knowledge, talent and creativity to design solutions based on science and technological innovation.
• Is an opportunity to support ideas for developing a Global Ocean Oxygen Database and ATlas.

Challenges GO2DAT-Hackathon 2022

The Hackathon 2022 will be a step towards to the improvement of models and data sciences as basis for Digital Twins. A fundamental component of Digital Twins is the value added to observations through predictive and data-driven modelling to create information about the future that meets the users’ needs. Thus, the following challenges shall be addressed and solved by the teams who will apply for their Hackathon participation:

1. Data Exploitation: Fully exploit data of (new) observing platforms with oxygen sensors to enhance monitoring and prediction capacities of ocean oxygen on coastal, regional and global scales.
2. Quality Standards and O2 Global Data Assembly Centre (GDAC): An O2 GDAC receives and assembles marine O2 data and metadata from the many data streams, coming from different types of observation platforms, that are part of the Hackathon. Methodologies are needed for checking consistency within and across platforms, identify duplicates, make sure that the data are quality controlled according to standards and methods, provide feedback to the source of data regarding quality issues, make data accessible and metadata available through the envisioned GO2DAT data portal.
3. Integrating Coastal Ocean Data in GO2DAT: The open data sharing concept needs to be advanced in support of coastal communities and, particularly, from National Ocean Data Centers and national and local organizations funding monitoring programs. With the existing services to facilitate and streamline the ingestion of coastal data the Hackathon teams shall investigate opportunities for easy integrations and showcasing the value added by these data to all data providers.

Teams can apply for tackling only one challenge or several challenges with their envisioned prototypes.

Background Information

The need for a standardized, well-documented, high-quality, and comprehensive database integrating O2 data and other environmental variables from multiple sources is growing rapidly with the increasing threat of ocean deoxygenation for marine ecosystems and delivery of their associated services to society. Sustaining a healthy, productive and resilient ocean as prioritized by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and the 2030 Agenda requires sound environmental mapping and modeling capabilities of known quality.

The activities and actions planned within the UN Ocean Decade Programme “Global Ocean Oxygen Decade” (GOOD) will raise global awareness about ocean deoxygenation, provide knowledge for action and develop hypoxia mitigation and adaptation measures through local, regional and global efforts, including intensified monitoring, transdisciplinary research, bi-directional knowledge transfer among stakeholders and scientists, innovative outreach and ocean education and literacy. The high-level objective of GOOD is to provide data, knowledge and best practices to enable society, stakeholders, and scientists to co-design and develop measures that can mitigate the drivers and impacts of ocean deoxygenation and provide appropriate adaptation measures where mitigation is not possible. The development of GO2DAT is proposed as one of the outcomes of the GOOD programme.

GO2DAT will be a key element, a tool to support assessments and decision-making leading to mitigation strategies for climate change and its impacts, maintaining ocean health and biodiversity preservation, and sustainable fisheries management (Garçon et al., 2019; Laffoley and Baxter, 2019; Limburg et al., 2020). Declining O2 is a stressor that covaries with warming and ocean acidification (Zhai et al., 2009; Gobler and Baumann, 2016; Breitburg et al., 2018) and now there is opportunity to ready the scientific and management communities for the next set of analyses and applications. When combined with socioeconomic data such as those reported in Dyck and Sumaila (2010), Swartz et al. (2013), Pauly and Zeller (2016), and Sumaila et al. (2019), GO2DAT will support the decision-making processes associated with the emerging blue economy.

Programme & Format GO2DAT-Hackathon

The Hackathon will be a 4-day event with 48 hours non-stop time for developing a prototype in a team and to think about its use, using various digital data related to ocean oxygen. The detailed Programme will be shared as soon as possible.

Day 1 will focus on the introduction of the idea behind the Global Ocean Oxygen Database and ATlas (GO2DAT), main goals of the Hackathon and the way forward. The Hackathon challenges and respective teams will be introduced as well as the data sets by the respective data coaches. The teams can ask questions in a Q&A session. At the end of Day 1, team members can participate in a Virtual Ice Breaker.

On Day 2, the 48-hour Hackathon will start. Break-Out Rooms for the specific teams will be opened at 8:00am UTC. Data coaches will be available during the whole day.

Day 3 will start with a short update and question session for the teams participating in the Hackathon at 8:00am UTC. Afterwards, the teams go back to their Break-Out rooms.

On Day 4, the Hackathon will be closed at 8:00am UTC. Afterwards, the team will present their outcomes and results by challenge. A Selection Board will look into the outcomes and announce the Winning Teams for each challenge at 12:00pm UTC.

The winning teams will present their results virtually at the 53rd International Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics / 3rd GO2NE Oxygen Conference which is taking place from 16 to 20 May 2022. This will allow them to connect with the international scientific community that is interested in the prototypes and will offer the start of further collaborations. Additionally, all teams will be connected to the UN Ocean Decade DITTO Programme.