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Pine Island Glacier Publication TimeMap

March 19th, 2010 | No Comments | By Ken Mankoff

In which I present a rough geo-spatial-temporal map of Pine Island Glacier (PIG) publications.

Geo-spatial-temporal time-map of Pine Island Glacier (PIG) publications

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Building a Software/Hardware Environment for Research

March 15th, 2010 | 5 Comments | By Ken Mankoff

Sometimes I get asked what software/hardware systems I recommend for research. Below is my standard advice. I am a scientific programmer and student and my day-to-day tasks involve research, data analysis,  scientific programming, and writing. Data sets might include satellite images, model output, GPS, seismic, and a variety of other data. Data domains are ocean, atmosphere, and/or ice. I travel a lot, either from home to the office or to the field (which might mean months on a boat with no internet connection). Therefore I try to have a setup that supports high performance computing (HPC) on a laptop.

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