The sixth Ocean Hackathon, launched last May, is living up to all its promises! And New Caledonia is not to be outdone, with 10 challenges validated and registered by the World Sea Campus. The event, to be held from 5 to 7 November, will be taking a new turn over the next few days: data collection, opening of team registration and a dedicated event are all on the agenda. Take stock!
10 project leaders for 10 exciting challenges!
Here's a look at the 10 challenges that were put forward and the people behind them:
Challenge No. 1: Régis Bador, a source and consultant in the development of innovative solutions for tropical aquaculture, and his team were responsible for designing an application based on a predictive model to anticipate the drop in food production due to the El Niño phenomenon in New Caledonia.
Challenge 2: To develop an algorithm for detecting ship grounding trajectories in the Coral Sea Natural Park. This is the objective of Manuel Ducrocq, Head of the Coral Sea Natural Park and Fisheries Department at the New Caledonian Government.
Challenge 3: Mohsen Kayal, a marine biology researcher at the IRD, is proposing to develop a digital platform that brings together historical and contemporary multi-source geolocated data on ecosystem health and environmental conditions to identify critical thresholds leading to decline or conflict and safe conditions for sustainable human development...
Challenge No. 4: This challenge comes straight from a sea user, our amateur coarse fisherman Roland Poli, who would like to develop an application to characterise the fishing pressure on the various FADs in order to inform fishermen from all horizons. Yellowfin tuna beware!
Challenge 5: We're off to the islets with Thomas Tilak, web developer/machine learning at Insight NC, who is proposing to develop an application to monitor tourist numbers in real time. Tired of being stuck next to your neighbours in the lagoon?
Challenge 6: The Northern Province is getting involved through the participation of Sophie Colin, oceanographer and GIS project manager, and Cheyenne Lolopo, GIS administrator. These two brilliant scientists want to develop an application to determine the best place to install one or more moorings around an islet.
Challenge 7: Sandrine Job, managing director of Cortex and a marine biologist, is exploring the "land-sea" link to create a digital tool for anticipating the risk of changes in the state of health of coral reefs, with the aim of guiding and prioritising measures to reduce the effects of coastal pressures.
Challenge 8: Supported by the CFA CCI and an almost complete team led by Jonathan Delefortrie, the "Waves" project involves developing a navigation assistance tool based on environmental and participatory data to recommend navigation routes, mooring points and departure times to users of the lagoon. Let's jump in the boat!
Challenge 9: Two associations are involved in this ninth project: Sea Shepherd NC, represented by Julien Chable, and Céline Lefebvre's Association Requin Océan NC. Their two organisations have joined forces to develop a digital tool capable of assessing the shark risk at any given moment. "Jaws dislikent!
Challenge 10: Still shark, Victor Tirebaque will be looking at the automatic detection of sharks using airborne video data from drones or aircraft. What better way to avoid bites than to know the animals?