2 Meet the Team – Glider Rodeo Hackathon

Aksel Sloan

Software Engineer

Organizer Jupyter Hub Science Lecturer

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Aksel Sloan is a software programmer for the Cetacean Research Program at Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. He is helping develop onboard edge computing for PAM-Gliders. For the Glider Rodeo Hackathon, Aksel is organizing our computer resources on the Jupyter Hub.

Cara Wilson

Program Lead CoastWatch and PolarWatch

Science Lecturer

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Cara is a biological oceanographer for the Environmental Research Division (ERD) at NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center. She is the Program Lead of NOAA's CoastWatch and PolarWatch programs and the chair of the IOCCG (International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group).

Joshua Hill

Director of The Institute for Advanced Analytics and Society

Administrative & Point of Contact Coordination

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Dr. Joshua B. Hill is Director of the Institute for Advanced Analytics and Society (IAAS) at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he leads applied AI development for federal partners including NOAA. He directs AQUAVIEW, an oceanographic data platform that makes NOAA ocean and atmospheric datasets easier to discover, access, and use. He also leads the Enterprise Data Toolkit (EDT), an AI-powered platform for tracking how NOAA data products are used and what impact they have beyond the agency. His work centers on making federal environmental data more usable through AI, including emerging agent- and MCP-based approaches. He is also an Associate Professor at USM.

Kaitlin Palmer

Acoustic Ecologist

Science Lecturer Data Analysis

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Kaitlin Palmer is an Acoustic Ecologist working with Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. She is a quantitative biologist and skilled with developing tools for analyzing passive acoustic data.

Kourtney Burger

Glider Rodeo organizer

Organizer Science Lecturer Data Analysis

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Kourtney Burger works for the Ecosystem Science Division at NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center. Kourtney works with passive acoustic data and underwater glider technology.

Selene Fregosi

Glider Rodeo organizer

Organizer Data Analysis Science Lecturer

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Selene Fregosi is affiliated with Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center and Oregon State University. She studied marine mammal acoustic ecology using PAM-Gliders, and continues this work today. She led the Glider Rodeo field efforts and has developed tools for automated processing of raw glider data.

Shannon Rankin

Glider Rodeo organizer

Organizer

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Works on passive acoustic monitoring, data workflows, and the use of autonomous platforms for ocean observing.