[Open-education] FW: Hackathon at ECMWF to improve the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) | Reading, 16/17 Jan 2016 - Please join

[Suchith Anand]

Frequency of extreme weather events are increasing which is very worrying. Really sad to see the devastation caused by heavy flooding across parts of Northern England and Scotland happening now by Storm Desmond. We all need to work together as a global family to find solutions [1] to these global challenges.

I have  decided to do my best  to get as many colleagues globally who have the expertise to contribute their expertise to improve  the Global Flood Awareness System. If any of you have hydrological and geospatial modelling expertise  and willing to contribute your expertise for this hackathon at European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) to improve the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) in Reading (16/17 Jan 2016), please join at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/floodhack-help-improve-the-global-flood-awareness-system-tickets-19819558834

Suchith

[1]  http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-December/002457.html



________________________________
From: ica-osgeo-labs [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Julia Wagemann [Wagemann.Julia at gmx.de]
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 11:33 AM
To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Hackathon at ECMWF to improve the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) | Reading, 16/17 Jan 2016

Want to develop tools to save lives? ECMWF is organising a hackathon on the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) to make the system more flexible and easier to use.
GloFAS provides global forecasts of extreme flood events and is used by international institutes like the Red Cross and World Food Programme as an information tool during crisis.

The hackathon will take place at ECMWF (Reading, UK) on 16/17 January 2016 - get more information under http://www.ecmwf.int/en/hackathon-announcement-global-flood-awareness-system.
Don't miss this unique opportunity and get registered for #FloodHack: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/floodhack-help-improve-the-global-flood-awareness-system-tickets-19819558834




This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee
and may contain confidential information. If you have received this
message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. 

Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this
message or in any attachment.  Any views or opinions expressed by the
author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the
University of Nottingham.

This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an
attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your
computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email
communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as
permitted by UK legislation.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-education/attachments/20151208/244f65b0/attachment-0002.html>