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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 (formerly at UW-CEE, now with NCAR) and Emilio Mayorga (UW-APL), and is currently coordinated by Emilio with help from Anthony Arendt (UW-APL & eScience Institute) and Don Setiawan (UW-APL). Thanks go to the eScience Institute for their support in hosting the seminars from the start!

Mailing list

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Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title
	Fall 2017 Quarter
Oct. 3	Andrew Bennett, UW CEE	MetSim, and lessons learned in legacy rewrites
Nov. 7	Aji John, UW Biology (Buckley Lab)	Realtime climate data acquisition using Amazon AWS Lambda
Dec. 5	Tony Cannistra, UW Biology (Buckley Lab) & eScience	Process Discussion: Two Geospatial Analysis Challenges
	Winter 2018 Quarter
Jan. 9	Cancelled	Cancelled
Feb. 6	Yixin Mao, UW CEE (Hydro | Computational Hydrology group)	Python as a tool to build large-scale geoscience systems - An example on a hydrologic data assimilation system
Mar. 6	Don Setiawan, UW APL	Python and R on the Cloud via JupyterHub and RStudio server
	Spring 2018 Quarter
Apr. 3	Russell Kramer, UW SEFS (Franklin Lab)	Visualizing and error checking data from three-dimensionally mapped trees using Sitchensis, a python-based tool for exploring tree-crown structure
May 1	Scott Henderson, UW eScience	Satellite radar image processing with python on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Seminars from previous academic years

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

• 2016 - 2017
• 2015 - 2016

Other Workshops / Seminars / Resources:

• Atmos-Python Workshop: [email protected] (Andre or Jeremy)
• UW eScience Python Seminar, Fall 2017?