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OGGM workshop
June 17th - 21st 2019, Grenoble, France
Ben Marzeion, Fabien Maussion, Nicolas Champollion, Anton Butenko, Julia Eis, Madlene Pfeiffer, Beatriz Recinos, Anouk Vlug, Run Zhang, Patrick Schmitt, Zora Schirmeister, Matthias Dusch, Jenna Sutherland, Samia Melki, Antoine Rabatel, Jordi Bolibar, Fabien Gillet-Chaulet and David Parkes.
Summary
During the 4th Open Global Glacier Model workshop the main developer Dr. Fabien Maussion gave an overview and an update of the project status. Each developer gave a summary of their own contributions to the model, since the last workshop (Innsbruck, May 2018). Anouk and Beatriz gave oral presentations about their work with the model.
The Workshop, activities & personal benefits
Beatriz Recinos and Anouk Vlug went to the 4th Open Global Glacier Model (OGGM) Workshop. This was already the third time for Anouk to join this workshop and Beatriz participated in all the editions so far. During the first day of the workshop everyone gave a talk on their recent work and/ or future plans. This was a good opportunity to receive feedback on our work and find out about synergies with the work of others. We also participated in the open discussions where we coordinated with the main developers the future of OGGM. During these discussions we talked about data limitations and uncertainties in the software and we agreed on the plan of action for the next year. This type of workshops give us an overview of managing and developing and being part of a model community, teaching us how we can work as a team on maintaining the code base and the documentation.
In one of the sessions we set outside around a flip chart and brainstormed about challenges. Later in the week after all the talks were over, the workshop became more hands on. We participated in an interactive session for experienced Python users where we learned how to use advance plotting libraries (e.g. http://holoviews.org) to improve the visualization of our model results. During this hands-on phase there was also time for us to contribute to the model by making a pull request (submitting new material to the model).
Throughout the week we also enjoyed the social aspect of the workshop, like having meals and walks together. This wasn’t only nice, but also good for the work dynamics, as it makes it easier to communicate via the online channels after the workshop is over once you know someone. If you like to know more about what happened during the workshop you can read the blog post by Nicolas Champollion.
Beatriz Recinos & Anouk Vlug
