ESPIn
The Earth Surface Processes Institute (ESPIn) is a six-day immersive training experience for 25 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career faculty. ESPIn is designed to help participants make advances in earth and planetary surface processes research by teaching cyberinfrastructure skills in numerical modeling, best programming practices, open source software development, and collaborative coding. A mix of experienced scientists, visiting faculty, and research software engineers provide instruction.
ESPIn is a combination of learning and doing:
- Team projects
- Project Jupyter
- Introduction to the Shell
- Text Editors and Development Environments
- The Anaconda Distribution
- Introduction to Version Control with git and GitHub
- Basics of Python Programming
- Python Programming for ESP Scientists
- Landlab
- The Permamodel Toolkit
- The Basic Model Interface
- The Python Modeling Toolkit
- High-Performance Computing
- Best Practices in Software Development
ESPIn kicks off with 'big idea' poster presentations of participants---these help with forming small teams interested in similar topics. Several days will be dedicated to working in small teams on a research, data analysis, and coding project. Participants can also work on developing and advancing their own research codes. Get a taste of the ESPIn team projects by checking out webinars and labs. In addition, there will be dedicated time for a local field trip, peer-to-peer networking, and professional development. ESPIn concludes with presentations on team projects, which set up participants to continue to develop ideas.
Participant costs (transportation to and from Boulder from within the U.S., enrollment, accommodation based on shared rooms, breakfast and lunch on teaching days) are supported for 25 participants by CSDMS. Applicants are responsible for dinners, and all other incidental expenses.
For questions regarding ESPIn, contact us at csdms@colorado.edu.
