Teaching

Strategies and Resources for Teaching GIS: Insights from AAG 2024

GEOG 264 Programming for Environmental Sciences

Syllabus: Fall 2023

Calendar description: This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of computer programming relevant for environmental sciences. It presents the basic building blocks of computer programming, including data types, variables and constants; expressions and operators; assignments, control structures, simple library functions and programmer‑defined functions. Students learn how to develop algorithms and how to convert algorithms/pseudo codes into a programming language — specific syntax (e.g. R, Python) — to collect, query, preprocess, visualize and analyze environmental datasets.

GEOG 202 Statistics and Spatial Analysis

Syllabus: Fall 2022

Calendar description: Exploratory data analysis, univariate descriptive and inferential statistics, non-parametric statistics, correlation and simple regression. Problems associated with analysing spatial data such as the ‘modifiable areal unit problem’ and spatial autocorrelation. Statistics measuring spatial pattern in point, line and polygon data.