LEAP’s Winter 2026 Momentum Bootcamp is a hands-on event designed to foster convergence of climate science and data science; vertically integrate research and education; and forge a LEAP research and learning community including K-12 teachers, PhDs, postdocs, faculty, and other stakeholders.

The two-day Bootcamp aims to teach Climate Data Science in the cloud using python tools with an emphasis on reproducibility and collaboration. Participants will learn through a variety of activities including lectures and labs, which will prepare participants for machine learning-enabled climate research and more advanced and intensive research-oriented workshops.

Bootcamp participants will:

• Discover, access, and explore open-access climate datasets, including satellite observations and climate simulations, using the Xarray python package.
• Calculate common climate statistics and diagnostics of variability and change using Xarray.
• Perform interactive visualization of climate data using the Holoviews package.
• Perform machine learning on spatio-temporal climate data
• Compare machine learning models’ performance and prediction skill
• Perform open science in the cloud using the LEAP-Pangeo Jupyter Hub