Community Flood Risk Assessment from Rising/Surging Seas Project part of CUREnet:Institutes:Other Institutes (2019-2020):Examples
Globally 634 million people, 10% of the world's population, live in coastal areas less than 10 meters above sea level. According to 2010 census data, 123 million people, 39% of the United States population, live in coastal counties with an estimated increase to this number by 8% in the 2020 census. As natural disasters have been seen to increase in frequency and severity in the past five years coupled with expected sea rises from climate change it is important that anyone involved with the safety and resiliency planning of their organization/community have an understanding of how to scientifically assess risk from flooding in order to mitigate and recover from the effects. This project allows students the ability to develop skills to utilize computer modeling systems and to apply the data to real world communities in examining risk to structures as well as different groups in the community.

Inland water chemistry: the Nordic Lake Survey 1995 part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Teaching Activities
While the ionic composition of surface seawater is basically the same anywhere in the world's oceans, the chemistry of inland waters can vary by orders of magnitude over short distances. In this activity we ...

Python Programming for Earth Science Students part of Courses
Computers are essential to all modern Earth Science research. We use them for compiling and analyzing data, preparing illustrations like maps or data plots, writing manuscripts, and so on. This class teaches how to ...

Genome Solver: Microbial Comparative Genomics part of CUREnet:CURE Collection
Genome Solver began in 2011 as way to teach Bioinformatics tools to undergraduate faculty. As part of the Genome Solver project as a whole, we developed a Community Science Project (CSP) for faculty and students to join. The CSP explores horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between bacteria and the phages that infect them. Students get involved in this project and develop testable hypotheses about the role HGT between bacteria and phages play in microbial evolution. Our own work has demonstrated that undergraduates can produce publishable data using this approach. We invite faculty and their students to participate in the search for additional evidence of this type of HGT by investigating the vast wealth of phage and bacterial sequences currently in databases. All that is needed is a computer, an Internet connection, and enthusiasm for research. Faculty and students can work on an organism of interest or we can help them pick organisms to explore these phenomena. By pooling all of the information from a variety of small projects under the umbrella of the Genome Solver CSP, we will be able to better understand the role of HGT in bacterial evolution.

A lifetime in Computational Science Education part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Essays
Robert R Gotwals, Science, North Carolina School of Science and Math A lifetime in Computational Science EducationRobert R. Gotwals, Jr.The North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsDurham, ...

Teaching Computation Online with MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022
For educators in Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Geoscience, Mathematics, Physics, and beyond Note: this workshop has already taken place. Workshop presentations and summaries of discussions are available on the ...

Workshop: Teaching Computation in the Sciences Using MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018
October 14-16, 2018 Carleton College, Northfield, MN Note: this workshop has already taken place. Read the workshop synthesis for a summary of key ideas and see the workshop outcomes for materials developed in ...

Creating Modules for Health Sciences in a Precalculus Course part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
Goal: development of a set a modules intended to introduce Data Science in a precalculus course mainly for Health Science.

Workshop: Teaching Computational Thinking Skills with MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019
For Educators in Geoscience, Physics, Math, Biology, Engineering, and beyond October 20-22, 2019 Carleton College, Northfield, MN Note: this workshop has already taken place. Workshop presentations and summaries ...

Vectorized thinking! Teaching efficient programming in MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Matin Rahnamay Naeini, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California-Irvine My exposure to computer programming started at high school, where I learned about the basic concepts of programming in ...