Leah Wasser

Leah Wasser Receives Open Educator Award

May 7, 2019

Educator Award from the CU Student Government and the University Libraries. The award recognizes her openly-licensed Earth Analytics Python course that uses open source tools to educate students on Earth data science. An average of 50,000 unique global visitors access the course materials each month. Wasser directs the Earth Analytics...

View of Earth from international space station. Photo by NASA.

GEOG 4100-001 / 5100-003 Earth Analytics: Accelerating discovery with a view from Space

This course will introduce graduate and undergraduate students to major unanswered questions in Earth science and to the analytical tools necessary to undertake exploration of ‘big data’ from a suite of sensors. This course aligns with Earth Lab , a new initiative of the university’s Grand Challenge efforts to use...