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Glenn Thompson
Geosciences
University of South Florida
Assistant Professor in Geosciences at the University of South Florida since August 2013.
Research in volcano-seismology.
Teaching: MATLAB Programming, Digital Time Series Analysis & Seismic Data Analysis.
Background: real-time volcano and earthquake monitoring, seismic network management, software systems development, research support.
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Activity (1)
Teaching Seismic Data Analysis with the GISMO toolbox for MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
GISMO is an object-oriented toolbox for seismic data analysis, and a set of tutorials are being built around this. Students learn how to read seismic waveform and event catalog data either from local files or ...
Essay (1)
30 years on: Is the current generation of students learning programming too late? part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Essays
Personal reflection on programming education in STEM, this essay page from a 2015 MATLAB workshop discusses whether today’s students start learning programming too late, contrasts early exposure to BBC BASIC with current gaps in undergraduate coding skills, advocates for MATLAB as an accessible scientific computing language, and calls for broader integration of programming in high school and university curricula.