{"id":1504,"date":"2010-03-10T10:24:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2011-01-06T16:19:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T21:19:11","slug":"new-grad-course-climate-change-informatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2010\/03\/new-grad-course-climate-change-informatics\/","title":{"rendered":"New grad course: Climate Change Informatics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m proposing a new graduate course for our department, to be offered next January (after I return from sabbatical). For the course calendar, I&#8217;m required to describe it in fewer than 150 words. Here&#8217;s what I have so far:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Climate Change Informatics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This introductory course will explore the contribution of computer science to the challenge of climate change, including: the role of computational models in understanding earth systems, the numerical methods at the heart of these models, and the software engineering techniques by which they are built, tested and validated; challenges in management of earth system data, such as curation, provenance, meta-data description, openness and reproducibility; tools for communication of climate science to broader audiences, such as simulations, games, educational software, collective intelligence tools, and the challenges of establishing reputation and trustworthiness for web-based information sources; decision-support tools for policymaking and carbon accounting, including the challenges of data collection, visualization, and trade-off analysis; the design of green IT, such as power-aware computing, smart controllers and the development of the smart grid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the rationale:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is an elective course. The aim is to bring a broad range of computer science graduate students together, to explore how their skills and knowledge in various areas of computer science can be applied to a societal grand challenge problem. The course will equip the students with a basic understanding of the challenges in tackling climate change, and will draw a strong link between the students\u2019 disciplinary background and a series of inter-disciplinary research questions. The course crosscuts most areas of computer science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And my suggested assessment modes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Class participation: 10%<\/li>\n<li>Term Paper 1 (essay\/literature review): 40%<\/li>\n<li>Term Paper 2 (software design or implementation): 40%<\/li>\n<li>Oral Presentation or demo: 10%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Comments are most welcome &#8211; the proposal has to get through various committees before the final approval by the school of graduate studies. There&#8217;s plenty of room to tweak it in that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m proposing a new graduate course for our department, to be offered next January (after I return from sabbatical). For the course calendar, I&#8217;m required to describe it in fewer than 150 words. Here&#8217;s what I have so far: Climate Change Informatics This introductory course will explore the contribution of computer science to the challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,83,76],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}