Installing Python on Mac M1
The new Mac M1 processors are pretty cool, and are enough to convert this veteran Linux user to Mac. Since Mac M1, M2, etc. are all ARM-based there are some differences to be aware …
Turning up the heat on Earth temperature modelling
Dr Ben Mather and Prof Louis Moresi from AuScope’s Simulation, Analysis and Modelling (SAM) program have recently developed a novel, speedy and data-driven way to model the …
Expedition to the Coral Sea
Chronicles the voyage on the RV Investigator to collect rock samples from ancient volcanoes on the sea floor
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Introducing Stripy
Geodynamicists from Sydney and Australian National universities have developed Stripy, a software module that allows scientists to efficiently place GIS ‘wrapping paper’ around the …
Continuous Integration with Travis CI
A bit of a late-comer to this game, I’ve just discovered the merits of so-called “continuous integration”. In a Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) review for stripy, one of the …
May the 4th be with you...
In an Underworld release far, far away… Geodynamicists struggle to model planetary dynamics due to the Cartesian Empire. Physical observations suffer inappropriate meshing and …
Multiprocessing in Python
Most of the codes I develop run in parallel using MPI (Message Passing Interface) using the python wrapper, mpi4py. There is a reason why highly scalable programs use this …
The effect of palaeoclimate on heat flow data
Make a palaeoclimate correction to heat flow data
Invert geology
A method to relate the spatial configuration of mesh nodes to lithology that is differentiable - an adjoint to the inversion of geological structure.
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