Proficiency in Ocean Data Science
Who: Early Career STEM and Undecided Majors
What: Series of courses and research experiences focused on ocean and environmental data collection, analysis and visualization
Courses
Field and Data Collection
serves as an early engagement and recruitment course with a focus on the important relationship between field observations and environmental data. Activities include data collection in various coastal environments — for example coastal lagoons/estuaries with concurrent measurements from manned and autonomous kayaks
Instrumentation and Data Characterization
demonstrates what scientific instruments are measuring and expose students to different types of data and collection strategies. Students will peer inside instruments to see how the sensors use basic physics and chemistry principles to obtain environmental measurements.
Data Analysis and Visualization
investigates new and/or previously collected data to expose students to more formal data analysis and presentation techniques. Students will be introduced to programming and data analysis basics focusing on the open-source software to perform basic programming activities like loading data and assigning/manipulating variables.
Capstone and Internship
provides hands-on experience for certificate participants. Organizations in need of data science processing skills and research problems to be worked on work hand-in-hand with PODS participants to finish up an academic exposure to data collection, analysis, visualization, and simulation.