Building quantitative skills in Marine Science using MATLAB
Diane Fribance, Coastal Carolina University
Diane Fribance, Marine Science, Coastal Carolina University One of the major impediments to teaching undergraduate science majors effectively in a liberal arts institution can be overcoming (many) students' ...

"The Gentle Art of Data Science:" Increasing comfort with computation
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 ...

Challenges of starting on the computer directly
Alexandre Martinez, University of California-Irvine
Alexandre Martinez, Civil Engineering, University of California-Irvine One challenges that I faced was that the students try to code directly on the computer with first thinking about what they need and they often ...

The programming bump in the night, what are we afraid of?
Jeremy Deans, University of Southern Mississippi
Jeremy Deans, Geography & Geology, University of Southern Mississippi When learning any new skill, there is apprehension. This seems especially true for skills involving mathematics and programming. I tell my ...

Computation for Oceanography and Coastal Science
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, ...