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An interactive workshop on programming in the geosciences for the CU Boulder RECCS program
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An interactive workshop on programming in the geosciences for the CU Boulder RECCS program

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# Python Programming in the Geosciences



This is a two-part (morning and afternoon) interactive workshop

on using the Python programming language

to perform data ingest, analysis, and visualization.

The workshop is a part of the [RECCS][reccs] program at CU Boulder.



The workshop will not teach the details of Python--others have done this (see "Resources" below),

and it takes more time than we have.

The goal of this workshop is to show how a working geoscientist

might use some of the plentiful scientific libraries available in Python.



## Instructor



* [Mark Piper](https://instaar.colorado.edu/people/mark-piper/)



## Requirements



* Computer

* Web browser

* Internet access

* Coffee (optional, but recommended)



## Agenda



The workshop is divided into morning and afternoon sessions.



### Morning



The morning session runs from 9 am until noon,

with a break around the midpoint.

It covers more basic concepts,

but people with experience using Python

can help those with less experience.



*Topics:*



* Introductions

* Why Python?

* Logging in to EarthscapeHub

* Using Jupyter Notebook

* Python fundamentals

* Importing Python libraries

* Reading data from a csv file with *pandas*

* Exercises and discussion



:arrow_forward: [Run the workshop material on EarthscapeHub][nbgitpuller-link]



### Afternoon



The afternoon session runs from 1 pm until 4 pm,

with a break around the midpoint.

It covers more advanced topics.



*Topics:*



* Loops, conditionals, `try` statement, functions

* Reading data from a NetCDF file with *scipy*

* Analyzing and visualizing data with *Basemap* and *matplotlib*

* Exercises and discussion



:arrow_forward: [Run the workshop material on the EarthscapeHub][nbgitpuller-link]



### Extra



Given time,

some additional topics that can be covered.



*Topics:*



* Exporting a notebook to a PDF file

* Using shell commands in a terminal

* [Anaconda][anaconda] and *conda*

* Using Python modules



## Resources



Python:

* [Software Carpentry][swc], especially the [Programming with Python][swc-python] lesson

* [Data Carpentry][dc]

* The official [Python tutorial][python-tutorial] is somewhat advanced, but has a lot of information

* The [TutorialsPoint Python tutorial][tp-tutorial] is also well done, and perhaps easier to follow

* When I have a Python question, usually someone on [Stack Overflow][stack-overflow] has an answer

* The [Matplotlib Gallery][mpl-gallery]

* The [CSDMS Ivy][ivy] course material



CU Boulder:

* [Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS)][csdms]

* [Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)][cires]

* [Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR)][instaar]



## Acknowledgments



CSDMS is supported by the National Science Foundation

under Award No. [1831623][csdms-award],

*Community Facility Support: The Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS)*.



Portions of the Python language fundamentals section were derived

from material that is copyright Software Carpentry

and remixed under their [license][swc-license].



NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network). 2D wind speed and direction

(DP1.00001.001). https://data.neonscience.org (accessed May 26, 2021)



20th Century Reanalysis V2 data provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSL, Boulder, Colorado, USA,

from their website at https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.20thC_ReanV2.html.



[anaconda]: https://www.anaconda.com/

[cires]: https://cires.colorado.edu/

[csdms]: http://csdms.colorado.edu

[csdms-award]: https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1831623

[dc]: https://datacarpentry.org/

[instaar]: https://instaar.colorado.edu/

[ivy]: https://github.com/csdms/ivy

[mpl-gallery]: https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/index.html

[nbgitpuller-link]: https://lab.openearthscape.org/hub/user-redirect/git-pull?repo=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcsdms%2Freccs&urlpath=lab%2Ftree%2Freccs%2Fnotebooks%2F0_overview.ipynb%3Fautodecode&branch=main

[python-tutorial]: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/

[reccs]: https://cires.colorado.edu/outreach/reccs

[swc]: https://software-carpentry.org/

[swc-license]: https://github.com/swcarpentry/python-novice-inflammation/blob/gh-pages/LICENSE.md

[swc-python]: https://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/

[stack-overflow]: https://stackoverflow.com/

[tp-tutorial]: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/index.htm