in association with UCL Geography, UCL Statistical Science, the UK Met Office and its wider academic partnership

Event timeline

22 April 2021: Applications opened for participants
21 May 2021: Applications closed
1–4 June 2021: Hackathon date

Climate scientists from University College London are hosting a four-day hackathon on 1–4 June, open to all UCL students, to produce cutting-edge analysis and visualisation using the UK Climate Projections (UKCP18) data. We aim to showcase outputs from the hackathon at the upcoming COP26 delegation in November. Participants will explore topics such as changes in the local weather conditions, extreme events, and climate impacts, or are invited to suggest their own research questions. Teams will be led by researchers from UCL Geography and Statistical Science with advice from academics across the Met Office academic partnership.

Welcome

If you have a question that isn’t covered in the FAQs, please email clair.barnes.16@ucl.ac.uk.

Logistics

The event will take place virtually, using a combination of video conferencing (e.g. Teams) for meetings and seminars, and discussion forums (e.g. Discourse) for ongoing comms. Participants are encouraged to take advantage of UCL’s Data Science Platform, which gives access to a Python notebook or R-Studio environment and a variety of relevant datasets.

Aims & Outputs

The aim of this event to is produce a novel way of looking at future climate of the UK, based on the Met Office’s projections. All the outputs from the hackathon will be assessed by a judging panel and the best team will win a cash prize of £150, with some additional awards available. Additionally the Met Office are showcasing their projections at COP26 in Glasgow, and would be interested in any particularly appealing outputs.

Code of Conduct

We are committed to providing a welcoming, friendly, supportive, safe and professional environment for all participants at its meetings, regardless of age, background, belief, disability, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, identity, national origin, sexual orientation or other protected characteristics. We therefore expect all participants to abide by our code of conduct, which is available at http://github-pages.ucl.ac.uk/hacking-the-climate/code-of-conduct/.