GPHY-491-591 Data Science for Sustainability

Most material developed by Cascade Tuholske, Montana State University

While specifically developed for MSU students, this course leverages materials from UCSB EDS2017, developed by Prof. Kelly Caylor, and from An Introduction to Earth and Environmental Data Science, developed by Prof. Ryan Abernathey.

Course Website

The course description, learning goals, format, and outline with links to all activities can found on Bright Space / DSL.

How to use this repository

1. Fork this repository to create a local copy in your github account. Do this by clicking the "Fork" button in the upper right corner of the repository home page.

2. Clone the forked repository to your local computer

   • Open your Terminal.

   • Type git clone and the the url for your forked copy of this repository, which is https://github.com/<your username>/GPHY491, where is your github user id.

     The entire command will look like this:

     $ git clone https://github.com/<your username>/GPHY491

     Note: In the line above, the $ is your terminal prompt. On other systems, the command prompt is something like >, or [username]$. To keep these directions more general, I will just use $ to represent the command prompt throughout our docs. The key point is that you don't need to type this as part of the command.

   • Press Enter. A local clone of the class repository will be created on your local computer.

      $ git clone https://github.com/<your username>/GPHY491
      Cloning into 'GPHY491'...
     

   remote: Enumerating objects: 4, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (4/4), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. remote: Total 4 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 Receiving objects: 100% (4/4), done. ```

     You will now have a new local directory in your instance called `GPHY491/`, which contains all of the course materials available. We will download and practice using all of the required software to use these course materials on Day 0 of the course. You can pull updated material from the github after it is added.