NERC (the Natural Environment Research Council) has organised three Covid-19 Hackathons and a Kaggle Challenge taking place in June/ July. The topics are as follows:
- Hackathon one – Air Quality (1 – 5 June)
- Is there a correlation between air quality and incidence and severity of Covid-19 infection?
- What is the air quality threshold we need to meet to improve individual outcomes?
- Hackathon Two – Recovery (15 – 19 June)
- What are the positive and negative aspects of lockdown and recovery measures on meeting Paris and net zero targets?
- Using multivariate signals to highlight these impacts and their inter-relationships to inform decision making.
- Hackathon Three – Ecosystem services (29 June – 3 July)
- Can we understand whether/how a healthy natural environment modulates the spread of COVID-19? And whether changed human behaviours are having an impact on this? Can we use this insight to improve health outcomes?
- Evidence-based support for decision-makers and individuals to mitigate their environmental impact and reduce their personal health risk.
- Kaggle Challenge – Visualising risk
- Solutions will turn data into actionable information.
- Developing unique and novel ways of communicating risk-based Covid-19 data for environmental solutions.
Entrants will work together or individually to draw from key NERC digital assets and datasets to consider the environmental impacts and consequences of Covid-19 and create a wealth of open, digital, environmental solutions to the pandemic.
Awards of up to £3000 are available for the solutions that best help us understand and address Covid-19 impact.
Further information on the events and how to register can be found on the Digital Environment webpage.