IOOS DMAC Tech Webinar - IOOS GSoC: recap 2025 projects and 2026 - January 29

[Mathew Biddle - NOAA Federal]

Hello IOOS DMAC community,

Please join us on Thursday, January 29 (TODAY) at 3 pm Eastern for this month's IOOS DMAC Tech on IOOS' Google Summer of Code efforts.

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. GSoC Contributors work with an open source organization on a 12+ week programming project under the guidance of mentors. Since 2021 the IOOS organization has proposed open source projects to be considered by prospective GSoC contributors. With the 2026 Organization applications fast approaching, we thought it would be good to remind the DMAC community about this opportunity. This DMAC Tech Webinar will review two of the projects from last year's cohort, as well as background information and an opportunity to ask questions about the GSoC program as a whole.

Agenda:

• Introduction from IOOS
• Introduction/Overview of IOOS GSoC
• GSoC Project: Build web UI versions for IOOS tools - Enrico Milanese
• This project aims to develop a user-friendly, WebAssembly-based (WASM-based) version of existing oceanographic data quality control and compliance checker tools. Its primary goal is to provide users with an interactive platform to validate and analyze their datasets more efficiently.
• Enrico Milanese is a data scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, with an academic background in scientific programming, data analysis, and computational mechanics applied to engineering and earth sciences.
• GSoC Project: Extending Crocolake’s available datasets - Chiara Monforte
• The main goal of my GSoC project was to bring in new datasets and make them compatible with CrocoLake’s unified schema. CrocoLake’s main goal is to make it easier for researchers and developers to access and work with different types of ocean data by converting them into a single, consistent Parquet format, so users can focus on analyzing the data instead of dealing with complicated file formats.
• Chiara works at the University of Hamburg as a glider technician in the experimental oceanography group and participated in GSoC last summer with IOOS 
• Q & A
• Close out meeting

We will be using Webex for the webinar. Please see the connection information below. The presentation section of this webinar (but not the discussion) will be recorded and posted to the IOOS DMAC website (see the DMAC Webinars tab).

Connection Information:

IOOS DMAC Tech Webinar
https://nos-noaa.webex.com/nos-noaa/j.php?MTID=m40845915fcf37a406d7e0e230ac11ac0
Thursday, January 29, 2026 3:00 PM | 1 hour 20 minutes | (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Occurs the last Thursday of every month effective 1/29/2026 until 12/31/2026 from 3:00 PM to 4:20 PM, (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Meeting number: 2825 144 6395
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We look forward to seeing you there!

Thank you,

IOOS DMAC Team

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Mathew Biddle, Physical Scientist
NOAA/NOS
US Integrated Ocean Observing System Office
1315 East-West Highway
Silver Spring MD 20910

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[Mathew Biddle - NOAA Federal]

Apologies. Chiara Monforte worked on Build web UI versions for IOOS tools and Enrico Milanese worked on Extending Crocolake’s available datasets. 

Hope to see you all later today.