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with new technical skills and collaboration opportunities that
extend beyond the event, accelerating discovery and innovation in
the ocean sciences.
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oceanog.2026.e104.
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AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS
OceanHackWeek is a collaborative project, with each member of the team contribut-
ing in many different ways. All authors are/were members of the 2023 and/or 2024
OceanHackWeek Steering Committee, and all have been involved in organizing
the annual event for one or more years. For this article specifically, we list roles fol-
lowing the CRediT system: Conceptualization, CM, WL. Writing – original draft and
project administration, CM. Writing – review and editing, CM, WL, FF, JG, AK, EM,
TM, NM, NR, VS.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Over the past seven years, many people have played roles in OceanHackWeek,
from shaping the direction of the program to organizing one (or more) of the annual
events. There are too many to call out individually, but we are extremely grateful
for the contributions of all. We also sincerely appreciate the sponsorship and fund-
ing that has supported the event over the past seven years, enabling participants to
attend at minimal cost: Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), NSF Division of
Ocean Sciences, NASA, Schmidt Ocean Institute, University of Washington eScience
Institute, University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory, Ocean Carbon and
Biogeochemistry Program, NOAA Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing, Integrated
Marine Observing System (IMOS), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation (CSIRO), ACCESS-NRI.
AUTHORS
Catherine Mitchell (cmitchell@bigelow.org), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences,
East Boothbay, ME, USA. Wu-Jung Lee, Applied Physics Laboratory, University
of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Filipe Fernandes, Integrated Ocean Observing
System (IOOS), USA. Joseph Gum, Computational and Information Systems
Laboratory, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA.
Alex Kerney, Ocean Data Products, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland,
ME, USA. Emilio Mayorga, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA, USA. Thomas Moore, CSIRO Climate Science Centre, Hobart, TAS,
Australia. Nick Mortimer, CSIRO Environment, Crawley, WA, Australia. Natalia Ribeiro,
Integrated Marine Observing System, University of Tasmania, Battery Point,
TAS, Australia. Valentina Staneva, eScience Institute, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA, USA.
ARTICLE CITATION
Mitchell, C., W.-J. Lee, F. Fernandes, J. Gum, A. Kerney, E. Mayorga, T. Moore,
N. Mortimer, N. Ribeiro, and V. Staneva. 2026. OceanHackWeek: An inclusive, collabo-
rative approach to developing oceanography data science skills. Oceanography 39(1),
https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2026.e104.
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