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[dmkahler]

All,

Please put your questions about computer tools (coding, data access, plotting, manuscript preparation, etc.) here! We are inviting those from around campus to keep an eye on this discussion board to answer questions. Over the coming weeks, I will ask some folks with a little experience to introduce themselves.

I'm David, a faculty member in environmental science. My background includes Fortran (mainly from astrophysics research from my undergrad), Matlab, R/RStudio, and a few very specialized hydrology and engineering programs. Hopefully this forum will help the community learn new computer tools.

Thanks,
David

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[corcoted]

Hi! I'm Ted, faculty member in physics. I write a lot of code in Python for data analysis and simulations, and I'm transitioning to using Julia for more stuff. I also use C/C++ occasionally to program Arduinos and other hardware. I'm slowly learning javascript for web-based applications. I write most of my papers and notes in LaTeX. I'm also a Linux user, if anyone has questions about that.

[vietmeiera1]

Hi! I'm Anna. I'm a 3rd year PhD candidate in bio. I have some experience with R/Rstudio with writing code to analyze data for growth curves to be represented in graphs and using the dada2/phyloseq pipeline to analyze whole microbial communities. I also have some experience with bioinformatics such as BLAST through NCBI and KEGG, and some experience analyzing whole genome sequences using KBase. I have also done some work with computational bioinformatics using Linux and Perl script. Right now I am working on an Rscript to start analyzing one of our labs assays in Rstudio to make prettier data. =]

[vietmeiera1]

Oh, and a little work with MEGA and CLUSTALW, too.

[profhuster]

I am Michael AKA ProfHuster. I am a physics faculty member specializing in lab instruction and modern instrumentation. I have a lot of experience in setting up Raspberry Pi's (linux) and microcontrollers to take, store, communicate and analyze data. Think Arduinos on steroids! I program a lot in Python, but also use c++. In the last year I have been using CircuitPython to program microcontrollers.
Some recent and current projects include background radiation sensors, anemometers with no moving parts, temperature, pressure and humidity sensors, water turbidity measurement, and laser optics characterization.
No question is too elementary to ask!

[GabiZuccolotto]

Hello everyone! I'm Gabi, and I am a second year master's student in the Environmental Science and Management program. My research focuses on water resources management and land subsidence detection in the lower Limpopo River basin using remote sensing. Specifically, I am using GRACE to study variations in terrestrial water storage and complete a water balance for the region and Sentinel-1 interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) to look for potential land subsidence around the coastal city of Xai-Xai, Mozambique. My computational skills include R, Python, Linux and GIS softwares (QGIS and ArcGIS). I have used R/Rstudio to write code for a variety of purposes, including reading, analyzing and plotting GRACE data from netCDF files. For the InSAR component of my project, I have become very familiar with tools offered by the Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) to sort/download Sentinel-1 imagery (ASF-Vertex) and generate a large number of interferograms (ASF-HyP3). I have used the interferograms generated through ASF-HyP3 to conduct a land deformation time-series analysis with the Miami INsar Time-series software in PYthon (MintPY). In the coming weeks, I will be completing an additional InSAR analysis of the same study area using the Stanford Method for Persistent Scatterers (StaMPS) approach. This technique requires Sentinel-1 image processing using SNAP from the Sentinel-1 toolbox and MATLAB. If you have any questions regarding land subsidence monitoring with remote sensing, don't hesitate to reach out.