SIO 199: Independent Research (Spring 2023)
Undergraduate course, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2023
I supervised two SIO 199: Independent Research undergraduate student projects for my advisor Prof. Helen Fricker. My main duties are providing research direction and technical support for data retrieval, cloud computing and analysis. The two resulting papers were titled “Morphology and Timing of a Recent Calving Event on Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf” and “Characterizing Seasonal Fluctuations in Ice-Marginal Lake Levels in Northwestern Greenland”.
Mentoring activities:
- Providing relevant background literature and associated code.
- Facilitating the formulation of appropriate research questions with the help of additional members of our research group.
- Setting up the students with a cloud-native JupyterHub in AWS for data analysis in Python.
- Assisting ICESat-2 data retrieval using NSIDC’s API.
- Providing sample notebooks for getting started and utility functions for data access, processing and visualization.
- Python / Jupyter troubleshooting.