Unfortunately, we canceled this course due to insufficient interest. We will run an online version in early 2024 to allow broader participation, especially from students. Stay tuned here and on Slack for more information.
DigitalCrust's inaugural workshop will be held at GSA Fall Meeting 2023!
How to Build a Digital Crust. Sat., 14 Oct., 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. US$60 (general); $20 (students). Limit: 40. CEU: 0.8.
Instructors:
- Daven Quinn, University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Snir Attia, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
- William Gearty, American Museum of Natural History
- Benjamin Linzmeier, University of South Alabama
- Lucia Profeta, Columbia University
- Akshay Mehra, University of Washington.
Course Endorsers: GSA Geoinformatics and Data Science Division; GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA Geochronology Division.
Increasingly, the future direction of geoscience depends on how we design and use computational tools. A multiscale, time-integrated “digital crust” that can be explored, visualized, and integrated into Earth system models is necessary for future scientific work and requires sustained investment in software infrastructure, data resources, and community practices. In this course, we will introduce skills that can help researchers contribute to this vision. We will cover foundational skills for sustainable digital systems, including software design, GitHub collaboration, and database management. Furthermore, we will examine how to integrate such work into a geological research career.
Objectives: Use the Git version control tool and the GitHub platform to share and collaborate on geoscience software.
Build on the contributions of others
Wrap-up: How is software collaboration like scientific collaboration?