OGGM/oggm-edu

Welcome to OGGM-Edu!

This platform is an educational website about glaciers.

Our main goal is to provide tools and materials for instructors who want to teach about glaciers at school, in workshops or at the university. For example, OGGM-Edu was used to conduct a weeklong workshop on glaciology and glacial water resources for undergraduate Peruvian students.

OGGM-Edu has four independent components, serving complementary purposes:

:ref:`title_apps`, to illustrate glaciological processes with the help of interactive graphics on the web. The targeted audience is very broad, from school children to adults, with or without scientific background.
:ref:`title_graphics`, open access images and graphics that can be used for lectures or presentations.
:ref:`title_notebooks`, for students willing to run and develop their own experiments. The targeted audience are students at the undergrad or graduate level with some programming experience, or under the supervision of an instructor who can show them how to run the experiments.
:ref:`title_tuto`, for current and future users of the Open Global Glacier Model. These notebooks are targetting graduate students or scientists aiming to learn how the model works.

OGGM-Edu focuses on interactive content and numerical glacier experiments. We do not provide teaching resources about fundamentals in glaciology or climate science: for fundamental textbook material, refer to :ref:`other_resources`, which OGGM-Edu intends to complement.

Interactive apps

These interactive apps can be run on any computer with an internet connection.

:doc:`gallery`
:doc:`explorer`
:doc:`simulator`
:doc:`alps_future`

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
    :hidden:
    :caption: Interactive apps

    gallery.rst
    explorer.rst
    simulator.rst
    alps_future.rst

.. seealso::

    Check out our new :ref:`activity_sheets` for high school teachers!

Graphics

Open access images and graphics that can be used for lectures or presentations.

:doc:`glacier_basics`
:doc:`glacier_lowpass`

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
    :hidden:
    :caption: Graphics

    glacier_basics.rst
    glacier_lowpass.rst

Interactive Notebooks

Collection of notebooks with simple experiments explaining one or more glaciological concepts. They are relatively easy to follow and adapt with some background in programming, and we are working to make them as accessible as possible. Read our :ref:`notebooks_howto` first if you are new to these things.

:doc:`notebooks_howto`
:doc:`notebooks_flowline_intro`
:doc:`notebooks_ice_flow_parameters`
:doc:`notebooks_surging_glaciers`
:doc:`notebooks_mass_balance_gradient`
:doc:`notebooks_temperature_index_models`
:doc:`notebooks_accumulation_and_ablation`
:doc:`notebooks_advance_and_retreat`
:doc:`notebooks_real_glacier_simulations`

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
    :hidden:
    :caption: Interactive Notebooks

    notebooks_howto.rst
    notebooks_flowline_intro.rst
    notebooks_ice_flow_parameters.rst
    notebooks_surging_glaciers.rst
    notebooks_mass_balance_gradient.rst
    notebooks_temperature_index_models.rst
    notebooks_accumulation_and_ablation.rst
    notebooks_advance_and_retreat.rst
    notebooks_real_glacier_simulations.rst

OGGM tutorials

These are more advanced notebooks, for users of the OGGM model.

:doc:`oggm_tuto`

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
    :hidden:
    :caption: OGGM tutorials

    oggm_tuto.rst

For instructors and teachers

Thanks for considering OGGM-Edu for your classes! We've gathered some recommendations and guidelines here.

:doc:`why_oggmedu`
:doc:`classes_howto`
:doc:`activity_sheets`
:doc:`user_content`
:doc:`technical_details`
:doc:`other_resources`
:doc:`charter`
:doc:`roadmap`

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
    :hidden:
    :caption: For instructors and teachers

    why_oggmedu.rst
    classes_howto.rst
    activity_sheets
    user_content.rst
    technical_details.rst
    other_resources.rst
    charter.rst
    roadmap.rst

Get in touch

Interested in OGGM-Edu? We would love to hear from you!

All of this website and notebooks are located on GitHub.
Report bugs or share your ideas on the issue tracker.
Improve the website by submitting a pull request.
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Or you can always send us an e-mail the good old way.

Acknowledgements

OGGM-Edu is an affiliated project of the larger OGGM consortium (oggm.org). It is mainly the work of volunteers, but we also had support from various sources:

the University of Innsbruck, Förderkreis 1669 – Wissen schafft Gesell schaft (2019-2020).
the German BMBF (project FKZ 01LS1602A, 2017-2019).
Google Cloud | Data Solutions for Change who provided cloud computing and hosting credits (2019-2020).
the University of Innsbruck, department of Digital Sciences (Neue Medien Projekte, 2018).
the OGGM e.V. organisation, who supported the creation of the OGGM-Edu logo and of the glacier graphics.