About

ESCAPE 2022 is a 2-week program designed to introduce participants to scientific computing, Earth science and spatial data analysis in a fun, inclusive, collaborative environment.

Schedule

Week 1

Day 1: Introduction to programming

• 9:30 – 11: Introduction to the course and icebreaker
• 11:15 – 12: Lecture: Intro to programming (Eric)
• 12 – 1: Lunch – Pizza
• 1 – 2: Jupyter and python installation and demo
• 2 – 4: Self-guided exercises: intro to Python notebook

Day 2: Interacting with data

• 9:30 – 10:15: Lecture: Satellites, GPS, and modern geodesy (Eric)
• 10:30 – 12: Lecture / demo: getting GPS data and making a plot (Jeng Hann)
• 12 – 1: Lunch – Panera
• 1 - 2: Lecture: Modeling and parameter estimation (Eric)
• 2 – 4: Self-guided exercises: reading GPS data, plotting, and line-fitting

Day 3: Maps and spatial data

• 9:30 – 11:30: Lecture: Questions in Plate tectonics and the western US (Mousumi)
• 11:30 – 12: Maps and cartopy demo (Jeng Hann)
• 12 – 1: Lunch – Jimmy John's
• 1 – 4: Self-guided exercises: cartopy installation, introduction and mapping GPS vectors

Day 4: More advanced modeling

• 9:30 – 10:30: Lecture: InSAR and Geodetic modeling (Eric)
• 10:45 – 12: Geodesy modeling demo – visible earthquakes website, Okada model
• 12 – 1: Lunch – Sahara
• 1 – 2: Lecture: Alaskan tectonics (Lindsay)
• 2 – 3: CARC office hours
• 3 – 3:30: Lecture: ABQ geology (Lindsay)
• 2:30 – 4: Self-guided exercises: modeling and mapping

Day 5: Field trip all day

• Volcanoes
• 12 - 1: Lunch - on the road
• Foothills

Week 2

Day 6: Seismology

• 9:30 – 10:30: What is seismology? (Brandon)
• 11 – 12: Lecture: ObsPy intro & demo (Evans)
• 12 - 1: Lunch – w/grad students
• 1 – 3 ObsPy demo & exercises
• 3 – 4: Lecture: Prep for active seismic survey (Lindsay)

Day 7:

• 8:30 – 12: Seismic survey at Alameda open space
• Lunch – w/grad students
• 1-3: CARC visit and HPC introduction

Day 8: Seismology and group projects

• 9:30 - 10:30 Lecture: Seismic reflection (Lindsay)
• 11 - 12: Demo: Plotting seismic reflection data and picking arrivals (Evans)
• 12 - 1: Lunch – w/grad students
• 1 - 4: Start work on group projects

Day 9: Group projects

• Group projects all day

Day 10: Last day!

• 9:30 – 11: Group presentations
• 11:15 – 12: Lecture: Going to grad school, careers in geophysics
• 12pm onward: Join grad students for lunch on the lawn and ice cream social

Installation

Programming will be done within the Jupyter-Lab environment. This can be installed through conda (https://www.anaconda.com/).

To ensure your conda environment has all the packages needed for this course:

1. Download the environment.yml file
2. conda env create -f environment.yml

Contributors

Eric Lindsey, Evans Onyango, Jeng Hann Chong, Lindsay Worthington, Mousumi Roy, Brandon Schmandt

Maintainers

Eric Lindsey, Evans Onyango

Acknowledgements

Thanks to NSF support for making this program possible (Award #2146272).