🌡 Module 1: Global Climate Change
🖺 Mann et al (1998)
🛠 Concepts: Tabular data, git
Communication: declarative visualization, jupyter notebooks
🐟 Module 2: Global Fisheries Collapse
🖺 Worm et al (2006)
🛠 Concepts: Relational databases
📈 Communication: Myst, pdf/LaTeX, html outputs
🛰 Module 3: Environmental Justice
🖺 Schell et al (2020)
🛠 Concepts: Geospatial data structures + analysis
📈 Communication: Geospatial visualziation
🤖 Module 4: Language Models and Decision support tools?
🖺 TBD
🛠 LLMs, RAG,
📈 streamlit, reactive design
📅 Weekly Plan¶
Fall 2026: we meet Wed/Fri 8-10am in Wheeler 212, from August 26 through December 4 (formal classes end). Hold on tight and don’t put too much faith in this.
| Week | Dates | Module | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|
| week 1 | Aug 26 / Aug 28 | 🌡 | GitHub, JupyterHub |
| week 2 | Sep 2 / Sep 4 | 🌡 | viz: plotnine |
| week 3 | Sep 9 / Sep 11 | 🌡 | data: pandas / ibis |
| week 4 | Sep 16 / Sep 18 | 🌡 | Collab, PRs, CI |
| week 5 | Sep 23 / Sep 25 | 🐟 | Module intro |
| week 6 | Sep 30 / Oct 2 | 🐟 | RDBs, joins |
| week 7 | Oct 7 / Oct 9 | 🐟 | discovery |
| week 8 | Oct 14 / Oct 16 | 🛰 | spatial data types |
| week 9 | Oct 21 / Oct 23 | 🛰 | spatial data viz |
| week 10 | Oct 28 / Oct 30 | 🛰 | spatial data analysis |
| week 11 | Nov 4 / Nov 6 | 🛰 | putting it together |
| week 12 | ~~Nov 11~~ / Nov 13 | 🤖 | LLMs |
| week 13 | Nov 18 / Nov 20 | 🤖 | LLMs+RAG? |
| week 14 | ~~Nov 25~~ / ~~Nov 27~~ | 🦃 | no class meetings |
| week 15 | Dec 2 / Dec 4 | 🤖 🎓 | streamlit, Final Projects |
- Mann, M. E., Bradley, R. S., & Hughes, M. K. (1998). Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries. Nature, 392(6678), 779–787. 10.1038/33859
- Worm, B., Barbier, E. B., Beaumont, N., Duffy, J. E., Folke, C., Halpern, B. S., Jackson, J. B. C., Lotze, H. K., Micheli, F., Palumbi, S. R., Sala, E., Selkoe, K. A., Stachowicz, J. J., & Watson, R. (2006). Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services. Science, 314(5800), 787–790. 10.1126/science.1132294
- Schell, C. J., Dyson, K., Fuentes, T. L., Des Roches, S., Harris, N. C., Miller, D. S., Woelfle-Erskine, C. A., & Lambert, M. R. (2020). The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments. Science, 369(6510). 10.1126/science.aay4497