UT-OSPO Cohosts first Hackathon with the Jackson School of Geosciences

Nearly 30 students, multiple mentors, judges, and emcees launched the first open source Hackathon, sponsored by the Jackson School of Geosciences and the UT-OSPO. The Hackathon focused on reproducible computational research. The hackers helped fill missing data gaps in select geoscience research articles by reproducing figures from historical articles, writing original code, and extending old computational methods to new approaches that use artificial intelligence. Monetary prizes were awarded to student teams by a panel of judges from TACC, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Sandia National Lab. The code produced at the Hackathon is now publicly accessible thanks to these students’ work. Explore their work on the hackathon’s GitHub page.