Computing for 3rd year Geoscience Undergraduates part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Dylan Mikesell, Boise State University
Dylan Mikesell, Geosciences, Boise State University My experience teaching computation is limited (I just started my second year as an Assistant Professor), but I use computing in all of my research. I strongly ...

Using computation to understand statistics through climatology part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Janel Hanrahan, Lyndon State College
Janel Hanrahan, Atmospheric Sciences, Lyndon State College Put simply, climate is the statistics of weather. To gain a true understanding of climate science, students must therefore have a sound understanding of ...

Motivating undergraduates in the geosciences to learn programming part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Alain Plattner, California State University-Fresno
Alain Plattner, Earth and Environmental Sciences, California State University-Fresno Learning to write simple computer programs can have tremendous effects on students in the geosciences. Besides training their ...

Using MATLAB to improve student understanding of vector calculus part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Essays
Anantha Aiyyer, North Carolina State University
Anantha Aiyyer, Marine Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University I work in the field of atmospheric sciences. My research involves analysis of data from observations and running numerical ...

30 years on: Is the current generation of students learning programming too late? part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Essays
Glenn Thompson, University of South Florida
Glenn Thompson, Geosciences, University of South Florida I was lucky. In 1984 I was part of a wave of British schoolkids who learned to program in BBC BASIC. I was 13. The BBC had made an ambitious decision to ...

A New Computational Methods Course for Geology Majors part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Essays
Clark Wilson, The University of Texas at Austin
Clark Wilson, Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, The The Department of Geological Sciences at UT Austin has one of the largest undergraduate geosciences programs in the country, with over 300 ...

Reaching Beyond Skills to Cognitive Development in Teaching Quantitative Thinking with MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Essays
Risa Madoff, University of North Dakota-Main Campus
Risa Madoff, Geology and Geological Engineering, University of North Dakota-Main Campus In teaching, I have used MATLAB in a lab tied to a Geomorphology course where no prior knowledge or experience with MATLAB ...

Computation for Oceanography and Coastal Science part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
Ali Reza Payandeh, Louisiana State University
Ali Reza Payandeh, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, LSU The development and implementation of coastal and ocean numerical models has led to specialized applications in oceanography and coastal sciences. However, ...

"The Gentle Art of Data Science:" Increasing comfort with computation part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
Andrew Fischer, university of tasmania
Andrew Fischer, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania The extraction and interpretation of information from vast quantities of data is now a fundamental part of advanced inquiry across ...

Self-paced learning in an undergraduate MATLAB course part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Anna Pfeiffer-Herbert, Stockton University
Anna Pfeiffer-Herbert, Marine Science, Stockton University I teach at a primarily undergraduate institution in a program—marine science—that draws students with high motivation and interest in their field of ...