OCESE project work Communications#

Scholarly contributions are fewer than “normal” owing to constraints experienced between 2020 and 2023.

Beyond UBC#

Most of the following were delivered at relatively informal events, however, >>two were presented as peer-reviewed posters at formal conferences.

  1. >>July 2023: Jones, F., P. Austin, T. Invanochko, “Lessons Learned While Implementing Open Source Computational Tools and Practices for Learning Quantitative Earth Sciences” at Earth Educators Rendezvous 2023 meeting, Pasadena, Calif. See the finished poster here.

  2. >>Dec 2021: Jones, F., C. Shoof, P. Austin, T. Invanochko, “Reinvigorating Computational & Quantitative undergraduate Curricula for the Earth, Ocean, Atmospheric, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at UBC” (link may not be permanently available to the public), American Geophysical Union (AGU) poster. See also a single HTML page version.

  3. May 2021: P. Austin, Pangeo Showcase. ΟCESE: Open source computing for Earth sciences education. See also video of the event.

  4. Sept. 2020: P. Austin, “Building an open-source educational community around executable Jupyterbooks”. American Meteorolgical Society Annual Meeting.

  5. July 2020: P. Austin, Scipy 2020 “BoF” discussion session.

EOAS or UBC meetings / workshops#

  1. November 2023: F. Jones, UBC Edubytes article “Implementing computational tools for learning”, sharing the Department’s project to implement open source computational tools and teaching tactics to facilitate hands-on interdisciplinary learning in data-driven scientific exploration.

  2. May 2023: Jones, F., P. Austin, T. Invanochko, Project progress report as a poster: TLEF project summary: Embedding Opensource Computational Tools into the Quantitative Earth Science Specializations.

  3. May 2022: P. Austin, “Creating Inclusion and Accessibility through Data Science: Challenges and Solutions”; Panel discussion, part of UBC’s Celebrate Learning week.

  4. May 2022: Jones, F., P. Austin, T. Invanochko, Project progress report as a poster: Future-ready computing & quantitative skills; opensource solutions in Earth Science courses.

  5. March 2022: F. Jones, A short EOAS Dep’t news item about dashboards.

  6. June 2021: Teaching with Jupyter notebooks

    • Workshop mostly prepared for instructors considering introducing Jupyter notebooks.

    • Not delivered due to reduced level of interest during the “covid summer” of 2021.

  7. May 2021: Jones, F., P. Austin, T. Invanochko, UBC TLEF Showcase, Opensource Computing for Earth Sciences Education: Lessons learned in year 1 of 3.

  8. February 2021: participant meeting. “Dashboards: Making Concepts interactive”. See PDF of presentation slides.

    • Interactive learning resources - precedent. (Targeting the “low threshold” end of the quantitative learning spectrum.)

    • Initial examples in EOAS - ENVR 300.

    • Associated pedagogy.

    • Brainstorm to discuss courses, topics, objectives, steps.

    • making dashboards: development steps.

  9. December 2020: Dep’t mini retreat. “OCESE components and progress”. See PDF of presentation slides. Or: PDF.

    • OCESE project components - which are attractive to you?

    • Faculty feedback

    • OCESE is working on: Jupyter notebooks and books, dashboards (the “low threshold”), auto-grading & connecting with Canvas, Local Jupyter Hubs and corresponding systems & workflows.

    • students and instructors perspectives.

    • infrastructure.

  10. August 2020: P. Austin, M. Colclough, UBC Jupyter Days, Writing Canvas quizzes with Jupyter