Martin H. Trauth, University of Potsdam, Germany
The VolkswagenFoundation funds a series of two summer schools entitled “Earth Surface Dynamics – Understanding Processes at the Earth’s Vulnerable Skin”. Here are some details about the content of the summer school.
Continue reading “Summer School 2018 on Earth Surface Dynamics, Part 3”
The summer school entitled “Earth Surface Dynamics – Understanding Processes at the Earth’s Vulnerable Skin” is the fourth summer school I am organizing together with the VolkswagenFoundation. The summer schools in the field of geo-biosciences in East Africa include the disciplines of paleoclimatology, paleontology, paleoanthropology, evolutionary biology, structural geology, and geophysics. I teach these summer schools together with colleagues from Addis Ababa University and the University of Nairobi, as well with many colleagues from other universities. Continue reading “Summer School 2018 on Earth Surface Dynamics, Part 2”
The VolkswagenFoundation funds a series of two summer schools entitled “Earth Surface Dynamics – Understanding Processes at the Earth’s Vulnerable Skin” led by apl. Prof. Dr. Martin H. Trauth, together with nine instructors from Germany, United Kingdom, and Ethiopia. The application is now open, the deadline is 1 October 2017. Download the summer school 2018 flyer.
Continue reading “Summer School 2018 on Earth Surface Dynamics, Part 1”
In the latest issue of the U Potsdam’s magazine Portal Wissen includes two articles about the Chew Bahir Drilling Project. The first of these articles is about my involvement in the project, the possible link between climate and evolution, the drilling operations in the Chew Bahir and subsequent laboratory work and time series analyses. The second article is about ancient DNA analyses of the Chew Bahir drill cores performed by my collaborators Michael Hofreiter and Ralph Tiedemann.
Carleton College, Northfield, MN, together with MathWorks again invites science faculty and educators to a Developing Competency in Teaching Computation using MATLAB workshop at 15–17 October 2017. Two earlier workshops and associated webpages were discussed in an earlier post to this blog. Continue reading “Workshop on Teaching Computation using MATLAB at Carleton College”
In a series of blog posts, I will tell you a little about how I teach computational geosciences with MATLAB. In the morning of the last day I teach image processing and analysis. Continue reading “Teaching Computational Geosciences with MATLAB, Part 10: Image Analysis”
The new GMT/MATLAB Toolbox by Paul Wessel and Joaquim F. Luis is a great interface between both very popular tools. Continue reading “GMT/MATLAB Toolbox”
This exercise is intended to help students to understand how to scan the magnetic anomaly of three disk-shaped Y10 magnets underneath a table. The experiment simulates a magnetic survey for subsurface structures. Continue reading “The Apple iPhone/MATLAB Mobile/LEGO MINDSTORMS Scanner, Part 2”