Hackathon pilots

The Blue-Cloud Hackathon (7-9 February 2022) invited marine scientists & researchers, data scientists, ICT experts, innovators, students, and anyone passionate about the Ocean to explore and test Blue-Cloud: the new, Open Science platform for the marine domain offering a wealth of data, analytical tools and computing power to support you in developing solutions for a safe, healthy, productive, predictive and transparent Ocean.

Participants were challenged to develop applications that contribute to improving knowledge of marine ecosystems; support the transition to a greener, blue economy; advance Ocean literacy; and/or enhance international collaboration towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030. Teams were grouped into categories and faced different hackathon challenges.

Find here the teams that participated in the challenge and discover the people behind, the ideas, topics and video pitches realised. 

More information about the outcomes of the hackathon can be found here.


 

The Particle Trackers

Sea Clearly

FEEDING THE WORLD - Challenge: 2B

AqADAPT

PerfeCt - Performance of Aquaculture under Climate change

WILDCARD - Hack the Blue-Cloud! - Challenge 4

Marine Wildlife Trackers

Wildlife Tracker for Oceans: real-time assessment for marine fauna habitat with Phytoplankton hotspots

The "Wildlife Tracker for Oceans" is a geo-framework dedicated to the real-time assessment of Marine Protected Areas - MPAs. Challenge: 1A - UNDERSTANDING THE OCEAN

Ocean Warning

A warning system for extreme marine events

PREDICTING ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS - Challenge: 3A

DataDolphin

DataDolphin - fast & smart marine risk prediction toolkit

DataDolphin developed a user-friendly toolkit that consists of three parts: a data analysis tool that reveals the general connections between data points, a prediction tool that forecasts future trends, and a playful platform that allows anyone to explore marine data in an intuitive and engaging way.  Challenge: 3A - PREDICTING ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS

aquamap

Mapping aquaculture suitability

<FEEDING THE WORLD - Challenge: 2B>

TeamCoral

AtlantECO hacc-UP

All-Atlantic Plankton Diversity &amp; Distribution Mapper

Use AtlantECO and BlueCloud plankton distribution data to develop autonomous species distribution modelling tools and map aspects of the Atlantic Ocean ecosystem. Hackathon Challenge: 1A - UNDERSTANDING THE OCEAN

Marine Analyst

Chlorophyll sandbox

<UNDERSTANDING THE OCEAN - Challenge: 1A>

Black swan finder

NFT-based model to visualize and predict marine ecosystems

What is the tool? A dynamic real-time based 3d virtual marine ecosystem made by NFT.  Why this tool? The ecosystem is dynamic and having real-time data is necessary for understanding the current situation of the ecosystem.  <PREDICTING ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS - Challenge: 3B>

EutroWarn

 Early Warning System for Severe Eutrophication

<PREDICTING ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS - Challenge: 3A>

Cavorit Ocean T(win)

BLUE T(WIN)

The knowledge of modern societies is T-shaped: Expert knowledge is deeply hidden within vertical silos of scientific communities, while on a horizontal layer, public debate and insights are often remarkably self-referential. The effort of connecting sciences under a paradigm of multidisciplinarity and big data might increase this gap. 

GoPlankton

Hack the data

Hack the data: Can current data identify the drivers of plankton’s diversity in the Atlantic?