Python in the Geosciences

Ongoing (Fall 2015-present) Seminar - University of Washington

Time:

1st Tuesday of the month, 3:30PM

Location:

6th floor of the Physics/Astronomy Tower (PAT), WRF Data Science Studio, Seminar Room C607 or C610

Background:

In recent years, the Python programming language has emerged as a popular choice for geoscientists. Python is an easy to learn, easy to read, fast to write, open source, multi-platform platform language. Accompanying the Python language is a large community of free, open source projects that have facilitated rapid scientific development and data analysis. This informal seminar series focuses on new and existing Python tools and applications within the geoscience community and aims to connect Python users across the UW campus.

This seminar series was started in Fall 2015 by Joe Hamman (NCAR but Seattle based; formerly at UW-CEE) and Emilio Mayorga (UW-APL), and is currently coordinated by Emilio with help from Anthony Arendt (UW-APL & eScience Institute). Thanks go to the eScience Institute for their support in hosting the seminars from the start, and to Don Setiawan (UW Oceanography & eScience, formerly at UW-APL) for his past help.

Mailing list

We use the python_for_geoscience[at]uw.edu list to announce seminars. But if you're subscribed, feel free to send an email on a relevant topic! You may subscribe, unsubscribe or change your settings, at this link.

Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
	Fall 2018 Quarter
Sep. 4	Emilio Mayorga, UW APL	We'll discuss the seminar series: what's working, what should be changed.
Oct. 2	Emilio Mayorga, UW APL	About the seminar series; nice Python tutorials; and maybe river networks and watershed hierarchies
Nov. 6	Noah Brenowitz, UW eScience & Atmospheric Sciences	Using python for machine learning with large gridded datasets
Dec. 4	Christina Bandaragoda, UW Civil & Environmental Eng.	Observatory for Gridded Hydrometeorology (OGH): automated retrieval, preprocessing, and visualization for spatial-temporal analysis
	Winter 2019 Quarter
Feb. 5		Cancelled
Mar. 5	Amanda Manaster and Sai S. Nudurupati, UW CEE	Landlab modeling framework and use cases (Cancelled)
Apr. 2	Emilio Mayorga, UW APL	Rivers and watersheds: Hacking on packages, API's and datasets for river network and watershed characterization
May 7	Jon Connolly, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network	Python Performance Evaluation Tools to Prepare a Traditional Regional Seismic Network for Earthquake Early Warning
Jun. 4	-	No seminar (too close to end of Quarter)

Seminars from previous academic years

See the seminar listings and access materials from most of the seminars

• 2017 - 2018
• 2016 - 2017
• 2015 - 2016

Instructions for presenters

Please send us a final title and a brief summary/abstract by Sunday before the seminar. Here's an example of a good abstract, but there are many others in the seminar web site. In the abstract, try to touch on what science you're addressing, what methods you use, and main Python tools / packages you use.

Some general information about the seminars and logistics:

• We have one hour for the seminar. Typically you can plan on speaking through the end, but with interruptions for questions and interactions throughout the hour. We usually have about 10-15 people.
• A mix of slides and active demos (running code live) usually works best. But it's obviously up to you.
• We have a good UW WiFi connection

Other Workshops / Seminars / Resources:

• Atmos-Python Workshop: [email protected] (Andre or Jeremy -- not sure if these are still going)
• Others?