Computer Seminars

All seminars will take place in SLAB 114 from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Feel free to bring your laptop and follow along or just come and listen!

Spring 2011

March 9

The “vi” Editor (Milan Curcic, MPO)

Fall 2010

September 15

RSMAS FTP, Remote VPN Access, and Personal Webpages (Brent Alexander, RCF)
[Notes] [Powerpoint Presentation]

September 22

NASA data access and visualization using the NASA Giovanni web portal. Giovanni is a Web-based application that provides a simple and intuitive way to visualize, analyze, and access vast amounts of Earth science remote sensing data without having to download the data. (Teddy Allen, MPO)

September 29

Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, atmosphere and solar Researchers (VAPOR). Free 3D visualization environment for UNIX, windows and Mac OS X computers equipped with modern 3D graphics cards. Works well with NetCDF, close integration with IDL. Produce sophisticated plots of your data! (Marcus Van Lier-Walqui, MPO)

October 6

Shell Scripting (Pedro DiNezio, MPO-NOAA)

Spring 2010

February 3:

Intro to GrADSL: Data Visualization (Teddy Allen, MPO)
[Powerpoint Presentation]

February 10:

GrADS Scripting Language: Learn how to write your own plotting and analysis programs to analyze data more efficiently (Milan Curcic, MPO)

February 17:

Basic Introduction to ArcGIS Model Builder (Rolando Santos, MBF)

February 24:

 

March 3:

Accessing and visualizing oceanographic data for biological applications: Intro to Ferret (Mandy Karnauskas, MBF)
Description: I will show the basics on how to use Ferret for the retrieval and analysis of oceanographic data sets accessible through OPeNDAP. Examples will be focused on biological applications, but students from all departments are welcome.

March 10:

 

March 17:

Spring Break — No Seminar

March 24:

 

March 31:

 

April 7:

 

April 14:

 

April 21:

 

April 28:

 

TBA

Intro to VAPOR (NCAR’s 3D Vizualization for Geophysical Fields) (Marcus van Lier-Walqui, MPO)

TBA

Introduction to LaTeX II (review from last semester and more advanced topics) (Marcus van Lier-Walqui, MPO)

TBA

MATLAB Data Analysis: Accessing time series from online sources and applying statistical and artificial intelligence methods for analysis (Lew Gramer, AOML)

TBA

Ferret for MBF (Mandy Karnauskas, MBF)

Fall 2009

Sept 9:

RSMAS FTP, Remote VPN Access, and Personal Webpages (RCF)
[Notes] [Powerpoint Presentation]

Sept 16:

Linux (Pedro DiNezio)
[Powerpoint Presentation]

Sept 23:

Matlab 101 (Loading different types of files, manipulating variables, making simple 2-D and 3-D plots, saving mat files and figures) (Shaunna Donaher)
Matlab 101 (PPT)
Making Matlab figures (Word)

Sept 30:

ArcGIS (Mandy Karnauskas)
PDF

Oct 7:

Remote Sensing Applications: Envi (Noelle Van Ee), Other software TBA (looking for instructors!) Postponed

Oct 14:

Research Posters and Presentations with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Powerpoint (Kelly Jackson) [Notes]

Oct 21:

Dissertation Formatting: Word Josi Taylor, Latex & Bibtex (Marcus van Lier-Walqui) [Dissertation Formatting PPT]   [LaTeX/BibTeX PPT]

Oct 28:

Statistical Packages: SAS and R (Mark Fitchett)

Nov 4:

Netcdf files in Matlab and other languages (Applications to MPO and AMP) (Atul Kapur)
[PDF]

Nov 11:

Matlab II: Applications to MGG & MBF (Art Gleason)

Nov 18:

Matlab animation and transparency plotting (Marcus van Lier-Walqui)

We plan to continue the seminar during the spring semester and are currently looking for instructors and topics. Please email me if you are interested in teaching a seminar.