This summer, Earth and Space Research (ESR) hosted a small team of data scientist and data engineer masters students from Northeastern University (NU) Seattle as part of an intensive 8-week internship experience called the NU Seattle’s Experience Expo. The NU masters students were tasked with developing a ML model aimed at improving predictions of sea ice extent by including Arctic sea surface salinity from a data product curated in-house at ESR.
The NU students did an amazing job at their task. They quickly came up to speed on the geophysics necessary to complete the job, they worked well together, and communicated very well with us – the industry mentors. We can’t say enough good about the group or the project outcome. But we don’t have to because the judges at the NU Expo 2024 celebration awarded these students (David Treadwell IV, Deepthi Sreepada, Ee Qi Lim, Sicheng Zhou, and Wayne Zhou) Best in Show!
This Fall, ESR is excited to continue working with the members of the group eligible for an industry internship. Ongoing work is expected to lead to a publication!