Introduction to MATLAB for Oceanographic Data part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
This activity introduces students to loading and plotting data in MATLAB. Students explore scalar and vector time series and profile data commonly used in the field of Oceanography using data sets from publicly ...

Numerical Simulation Basics: Part II – Boundary Conditions & Numerical Stability for a Finite-Difference Equation part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
This is the second and last activity teaching numerical simulation basics to students in a junior-level physical oceanography course. In the first activity students program solutions for a 1st order differential ...

Stress Map part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Use earthquakes from the global CMT catalog to look at crustal stresses in a given region of the Earth. Students will download earthquake data from an online catalog and make 2 tectonic maps. One map is of the ...

Numerical Simulation Basics: Accuracy and Model Validation for a Finite-difference Equation part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
This activity teaches students a few of the basic concepts for numerical simulation of physical systems by modeling the simple and well-known problem of free-fall. The recursion relation for the finite-difference ...

Transitioning from Excel to MATLAB Diffusion Models part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
This activity is part of a larger module that introduces students to two different ways to model chemical diffusion in minerals: 1) 1D diffusion in Excel using finite differences and 2) 1D diffusion in MATLAB using ...

Climate change and extreme values analysis part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
In this activity, we learn where to get climate data (monthly temperature maxima and monthly precipitation maxima) from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). We learn how to fit a GEV ...

Signal processing and earthquake triggering part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
In this exercise, written for an undergraduate seismology class, students use MATLAB to analyze waveforms from the 2004 Sumatra M9.0 earthquake, as they were recorded on three seismic stations in Alaska. Two of ...

Gravity prospecting part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2017:Activities
Students are given a set of gravity data with the aim of finding high density anomalies in the subsurface. Keywords: Data analysis; inverse modeling

Monitoring Algal Blooms with Landsat (OLI) part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Teaching Activities
Algal blooms are caused by an aggregation of either microscopic phytoplankton or macro algae. They can produce toxic or harmful effects on humans and or the ecosystem. The purpose of this activity is to teach ...

Glacier Flow Model and Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
The goal of this assignment is for students to recognize that adding some randomization and "noise" to a model yields different results each time we run the model, and we can pull some useful statistics ...