Syllabus - ESIIL Stars Internship 2023
Welcome to the ESIIL Stars Internship 2023! We are excited to have you in class for the next 5 months as we introduce you to Earth and Environmental Data Science (EDS) fundamentals using Python.
This is our first year of the ESIIL Stars Internship and we’re glad to be getting started with you all as the first cohort of interns. ESIIL Stars is modeled after the Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) Earth Data Science Corps (EDSC), which took place from 2020-2022. Both of these programs are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
ESIIL Stars aims to meet the following objectives through technical training and project based learning:
- Train the next generation of Earth and Environmental Data Scientists
- Answer relevant GIS and Earth/Environmental science questions
- Diversify the EDS workforce
- Build capacity to teach & learn EDS at partner institutions
This work represents a partnership between Oglala Lakota College (OLC), Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU), United Tribes Technical College (UTTC), and The Environmental Data Science Innovation and Inclusion Lab (ESIIL). ESIIL is a part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) a partnership of the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). We are also affiliated with Earth Lab.
We appreciate these partnerships and look forward to working with you all!
Meet Our Team
Nate Quarderer
Elsa Culler
Jim Sanovia
Katherine Halama
Nathan Korinek
Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU)
Faculty Mentors
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Sylvia Brady
ESIIL Interns
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Rosie Patrick
Scott Sheldon
Meghan Smedes
Celeste Leedle
Oglala Lakota College (OLC)
Faculty Mentors
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ESIIL Interns
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Michael DuBray
Amber Laundreaux
Eva Weddell
Summer Dupree
United Tribes Technical College (UTTC)
Faculty Mentors
Emily Biggane
Jess Logan
ESIIL Interns
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Reuben Stands
Tristin Davis
Kianna Stroh
Angel Levering
EDSC Advanced Intern Peer Mentors
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Trey O. Phelps
Madison Phelps
Brett Alberts
Kaiea Rohlehr
Course Links:
Discourse: https://earthlab.earthdatascience.org/
ESIIL Education GitHub Organization: https://github.com/cu-esiil-edu
GitHub Classroom:
Slack Workspace: Join here
Textbook: https://www.earthdatascience.org/
Zoom: Join Zoom Meeting
Course Schedule (Tentative):
Spring Training (mid-March through end-of-spring-semester)
ESIIL instructors will meet weekly with each team to answer questions and check-in on interns’ progress. We will bring all of the teams together to meet as a large group throughout the spring and summer semesters.
Spring training will include the following Big Ideas:
- Building your brand with GitHub Pages
- Using GitHub for collaborative data science
- Open and reproducible science with Python
- Earth and Environmental Data Science with Python
- Tabular and time-series data
- Vector and raster spatial data
Summer Group Projects
Starting in the summer semester (early-June), group projects will begin. From here through the end of the internship (first week of August), teams will begin checking-in multiple times per week for regular progress reports, and help sessions for group projects. Each team will be responsible for designing their own project to apply the EDS skills learned during the Spring Training. Each team will present their group project during a final presentation and in written form through a project blog post during the final week of the internship. We will post your presentations and blogs to our YouTube channel and other social media. We will also discuss Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) and other ways to make your work findable and citable.
Click here to see what kinds of projects the EDSC teams completed as part of their internships.
Spring Training Assignments
- Assignment 0: GitHub Pages
- Assignment 1: GitHub for Collaboration
- Assignment 2: Get Started With Reproducible Science (see Discourse for link to assignment)
Internship Expectations
- Spring Training (March - May)
- 5-10 hrs/wk
- Attend weekly team check-ins
- Complete weekly assignments
- Summer Group Projects (June - August)
- 15-20 hrs/wk
- Attend regular team check-ins
- Attend weekly large-group meetings
- Contribute to group project
- Keep weekly log of hours
- Word (Google) doc or spreadsheet
- Submit to faculty mentors
Code of Conduct (borrowed from the Carpentries)
- Use welcoming and inclusive language
- Be respectful of different viewpoints and experiences
- Gracefully accept constructive criticism
- Focus on what is best for the community
- Show courtesy and respect towards other community members