We aim to expand the community of people who can contribute to and work with the ICE-D database and infrastructure. We will be teaching you how to use the tools necessary to interact with ICE-D, and we will provide examples and a platform for discussion to help you make your own meaningful visualizations, applications and analyses of cosmogenic nuclide exposure data.

For more information about the ICE-D project, please visit the Top level page of this wiki

The focus of this workshop will be on building and expanding the Laurentide Ice Sheet application, but we welcome others who are more generally interested in using ICE-D.

– How the infrastructure is set up

– How the database is organized

– How to put data into the database (hands-on)

– Spend some time digging LIS data out of the literature and building the database

– How to get data out of the database using MATLAB, Python, GIS, whatever

– How to use ICE-D data in an embedded web map

– How to build a web application that uses ICE-D data

The workshop is scheduled for 3 days, and each day is laid out roughly as follows:

Day 1: Introduction, database connections, and data entry

– 9:00am - 10:00am: Intro the ICE-D project, ice breakers, etc.

– 10:00am - 12:00pm: Check in with everyone to make sure they know how to 1) connect to the database, and 2) add data to the database through our admin page on the website (see tutorial links below for instructions)

– 12:00pm - 1:00pm break for lunch

– 1:00pm - 5:00pm Spend the remainder of the day mining the literature and doing data entry if everyone is connected and able to add data

Day 2: Data visualizations, applications and analyses using ICE-D Part I

– 9:00am - 10:00am: review of previous day's topics/intro today's topics, questions, discussion, etc. (if necessary)

– 10:00am - 12:00pm: Setting up connections to ICE-D through other software, mainly Matlab and desktop GIS applications like QGIS

– 12:00pm - 1:00pm: break for lunch

– 1:00pm - 5:00pm: examples/discussion of potential visualizations/applications/analyses using ICE-D

Day 3: Data visualizations, applications and analyses using ICE-D Part II

– 9:00am - 10:00am: review of previous day's topics/intro today's topics, questions, discussion, etc. (if necessary)

– 10:00am - onward: examples/discussion of potential visualizations/applications/analyses using ICE-D

The final day is Usually a little more informal. Mainly, we focus on brainstorming ideas of analyses and visualizations one could do with ICE-D and exploring some of these ideas on the fly. Attendees are encouraged to stay as long as they like but if folks need to leave early, after this point we will have hopefully given everyone the tools they need to interact with ICE-D so they won't miss any further instructions.

Much of our process for viewing and adding data to ICE-D has become quite streamlined, but you can help expedite the process even more by taking the following steps prior to the meeting:

Step 1 Determine what personal machine (most likely a laptop) you plan on using for a while to interact with ICE-D (we can accommodate Macs or PCs no problem, and have had good success with Linux users as well). We get users to connect to the database with a connection that is unique to each individual machine so it is best to try to pick one and stick with it if you can.

Step 2 Read through our tutorials ahead of time! Inevitably there will be challenges with getting everyone connected to the database but as previously stated things are somewhat streamlined at this point and the tutorials are helpful

2.1 Find the tutorials for connecting to the database through SQL Clients here: Windows Users | Mac and Linux Users

2.2 Find the tutorial for getting set up and adding data through the admin panel on the ICE-D webpage here: Data entry page

2.3 The page general page for connecting to ICE-D, adding data to ICE-D and examples of applications and visualizations also has lots of other info available that attendees are encouraged to check out: ICE-D tutorials, visualization and analysis applications page

Step 3 if you can, and have time for it, come to the workshop with either your own data for data entry or data from a paper or two that you know of that have not yet been entered into ICE-D (can pertain specifically to the Laurentide Ice Sheet but doesn't have to be!). Furthermore, try to brainstorm ahead of the workshop what sorts of visualizations, applications, and/or analyses you might like to explore using ICE-D.

– Our contact at the USGS, Will Odom has reserved a space in the USGS building (exact room details to come)

– Greg and Joe plan on reserving rooms at the Hyatt Regency Reston 1800 Presidents St, Reston, VA 20190 (Booking page).

–This is the hotel that is planned for use for the GSA Sectional Meeting following the workshop, and is close to the downtown center of Reston where there are options for food, shopping, etc. We would recommend this hotel to attendees but please feel free to book whatever lodging spaces you prefer.

–A major highway isolates the USGS Offices so we will either need to walk the ~1.8 mi walk to the offices or call Ubers or perhaps we will rent a passenger van. See google earth image at the bottom of this page for the general layout.

Number of people: target 10 participants, plus workshop leaders (Balco, Tulenko) and USGS folks

Target audience: Graduate students, postdocs, early-career faculty who are interested in synoptic analysis of cosmogenic-nuclide data.

NSF funding is available to support participant travel. At present we believe we can support 10 attendees. Funding will be prioritized by inverse career state: students, then postdocs, etc.

– for those who we can offer support:

1) You will be asked to purchase your own flights, reserve your own hotel rooms, and cover your own per diem expenses

2) Please hold onto receipts and send copies of all receipts to Joe Tulenko (jtulenko@bgc.org).

3) Attendees will fill out a travel form supplied by the Berkeley Geochronology Center.

4) Once all receipts and travel forms are submitted, BGC will send out reimbursement.

Please email Joe Tulenko (jtulenko@bgc.org) if you have any questions.

Some workshop participants have been invited by the organizers. We are also soliciting applications for additional participants. Applicants should have the following properties:

– Involved in research having to do with cosmogenic-nuclide exposure dating of glacier change

– Involved in or interested in using large data exposure-age data sets for synoptic climate or glacier change analysis

– Motivated to participate in the ICE-D project in future by (i) building or maintaining data, (ii) developing new analysis or visualization applications, or (iii) using ICE-D resources for undergraduate/graduate teaching or outreach.

– Some knowledge of programming environments used to build websites and/or analyze data, for example SQL, Python, and MATLAB.

– Most likely a graduate student or postdoc

To apply: submit the following materials to Joe Tulenko (jtulenko@bgc.org):

– A CV

– A letter explaining (i) how you meet the requirements above, and (ii) what you would like to do with the ICE-D databases or infrastructure

A map of Reston, VA with the Hyatt Hotel, downtown, and the USGS highlighted.