Initiator and organiser of the hackathon, Sara Varela, scientist in research area 1 of the Museum für Naturkunde with a focus on species extinction in mammals, originally planned the hackathon in a closed room and, at the suggestion of the management of the experimental field, relocated it to the public rooms of the experimental field. Sara Varela as well as several MfN colleagues and some external scientists took part in the hackathon to bring together climate data on extreme weather events with data on species extinction. The visitors were informed about the hackathon with a poster and invited to participate. In this way, science could be made visible and authentically presented as a process .
