ESCI 7205 Data Analysis in Geophysics
Fall 2011
TuTh 09:40-11:05 AM
CERI House 3 Conference Room or UNIX Lab



Instructor: Bob Smalley
Office hours: 2-4 M, Tu & Th, and when you see me in my office.

UNIX Visual Quickstart Guide, Fourth Edition, D.S. Ray and E.J. Ray. This book will serve as the "textbook" for the introduction to UNIX part of the course. It is available at safaribooksonline.com (thorugh the link given). Reading assignments from this book will be assigned.

We will also reference:

Classic Shell Scripting, A. Robbins and N.H.F. Beebe.

The "AWK book"
Awk Article 1
Awk Article 2
Awk Article 3

Generic Mapping Tools (GMT)

Seismic Analysis Code (SAC)

Mathworks

Getting started with Matlab: html, pdf

Students must attend all lectures and labs. Class absences must be discussed PRIOR to the missed class.

Homework assignments must be handed in on time; 10% will be taken off for each day late.

The class will include completing a computer based research project that uses the tools discussed in class. The project can, but is not required to, be related to your primary research interest or topic. The project must be approved before starting work. The project should not also be used for another class you are currently taking. Each student will give a 20 minute presentation the last day of class.

70% homework, 10% class participation, 20% final project. There is no final exam.

Homework assignments will be posted on the class web page and distributed by email.

Each student will design, implement and present a small-scale data analysis project. The project should use programs and/or techniques discussed in the class. Geophysics data is preferred and a project releated to the student's own research is encouraged. Use of SAC, and/or MATLAB, and/or GMT as part of the project is mandatory. The topic should be discussed with me, decided on and approved no later than Nov 3rd. Each student will give a 20 minute PowerPoint presentation the last two days of class. The project should be thoroughtly documented and all scripts/programs/macros turned in as part of the project. There will be no final exam.

Aug    30    Tu    Class 1 - intro, class 1 - intro, UNIX
Sep     1      Th    Class 2 - class 2 - UNIX
Sep     6      Tu    Class 3 - class 3 - UNIX
Sep     8      Th    NO CLASS - to be made up
Sep     13    Tu    Class 4 - class 4 - UNIX
Sep     15    Th    Class 5 - class 5 - VI and other editors 
Sep     20    Tu    Class 6 - class 6 - UNIX, Shell scripts (intro programming)
Sep     22    Th    Class 7 - class 7 - scripts
Sep     27    Tu    Class 8 - class 8 - awk
Sep     29    Th    Class 9 - class 9 - awk
Oct     4      Tu    Class 10 - class 10 - awk
Oct     6      Th    Class 11 - class 11 - GMT, intro gmt script
Oct     10    Tu    Class 12 - class 12 - GMT, topo map example
Oct     11    Tu    Class 13 - class 13 - GMT, representation of numbers on computer, math on computer
Oct     13    Th    Class 14 - class 14 - MATLAB
Oct     18    Tu    Fall Break - NO CLASS
Oct     20    Th    Class 15 - class 15 - MATLAB
Oct     25    Tu    Class 16 - class 16 -MATLAB
Oct     27    Th    Class 17 - class 17 - MATLAB
Nov    1      Tu    Class 18 - class 18 - MATLAB, here are the two files for the GUI example done in class (draw a function): GUI fig file GUI m file.
Nov    3      Th    Class 19 - class 19 - SAC
Nov    8      Tu    Class 20 - class 20 - SAC
Nov   10     Th    Class 21 - class 21 - SAC, IRIS DMC, ftp
Nov   15     Tu    Class 22 - class 22 - misc MATLAB, editing GMT and MATLAB figures with Adobe Illustrator
Nov   17     Th    Class 23 - class 23 - Fortran
Nov   22     Tu    Class 24 - GIS - guest lecture by Kathy Tucker and make-up for Dec 6 class 24 - C
Nov   24     Th    Thanksgiving - NO CLASS
Nov   29     Tu    Class 25 - Present projects - 15 mins each, 5 students - John, Cecilia, Wes, Nayeem, Sara
Dec      1    Th    Class 26 - Present projects - 15 mins each, 4 students - Bryan, Moji, Ali, Amanda
Dec      6     Tu   NO CLASS - out of town for AGU meeting

(I sometimes make changes to the notes presented in class - based on questions/comments during the class or because I found something interesting. The files at the links above are therefore not completely static during the semester.)