GEOPHYS 115: Taking the Pulse of the Planet

Instructor: Rosemary Knight

With the launch of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, we wish to celebrate, through this course, the powerful role that advancements in technology and data science are playing in addressing the global challenges in sustainability and climate change.

Join us as we explore, using Google Colab, how new forms of satellite sensors allow us to better understand the changes occurring on our planet. 

Tapping into rapid advancements in sensor technology and data science over the past decade, we can now image and monitor many components of the Earth system and human activities. We wish to celebrate, through this course, the powerful role that advancements in technology and advancements in data science are playing in addressing the global challenges in sustainability and climate change. This will be a lecture class for undergraduates and graduate students designed to introduce them to the incredible array of satellite sensors and data sets now available.

The course will be designed to accommodate students at any level, with any background, with no required pre-requisites. In most of the assignments, we will be using Google co-lab to work with the available data. We anticipate drawing to this course both data-science-savvy and data-science-interested students. We have developed a “Pulse Toolkit” that is designed to help any student get up to speed on the computational approaches used in the class.

Access the current syllabus here: https://syllabus.stanford.edu