Open NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) Virtual Workshop and Challenge 2014
From the webpage:
President Obama has announced a series of executive actions to reduce carbon pollution and promote sound science to understand and manage climate impacts for the U.S.
Following the President’s call for developing tools for climate resilience, OpenNEX is hosting a workshop that will feature:
- Climate science through lectures by experts
- Computational tools through virtual labs, and
- A challenge inviting participants to compete for prizes by designing and implementing solutions for climate resilience.
Whether you win any of the $60K in prize money or not, this looks like a great way to learn about climate data, approaches to processing climate data and the Amazon cloud all at one time!
Processing in the virtual labs is on the OpenNEX (Open NASA Earth Exchange) nickel. You can experience cloud computing without fear of the bill for computing services. Gain valuable cloud experience and possibly make a contribution to climate science.
Enjoy!