Short course held at the Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia, Poland

5–9 June, 2018

Instructor: Nathan J. Lyons, nlyons@tulane.edu

Tulane University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, LA, USA

Description: Numerical models can have a key role in unraveling the complex earth processes involved in geohazards. The goal by the end of the course is participants will be able to explore hypotheses about geohazards for research and teaching using Landlab. This software provides modeling tools to build numerical models of earth surface processes. First, we will become familiar with the programming language of Landlab, Python. Second, we will prepare a synthetic landscape for geohazard hypothesis exploration by coupling simulated earth surface processes and evolve this landscape over time. Lastly, we will build models that simulate overland flow and flood hazards, and landslide probability. Exercises are hands-on and participants will have opportunity to explore model components supported with instructor guidance. The software used in this short course is free, open-source, and compatible with Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

This short course is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and professionals with little to no computer programming experience.

Acknowledgements: Development of this course was assisted by the Landlab development team and CSDMS Integration facility personnel. Course materials were developed from contributions by Jordan Adams, Nicole Gasparini, Margaux Mouchene, Mariela Perignon, Mark Piper, Sai Siddhartha, Ronda Strauch, and Greg Tucker. Funding provided by the GeoHazardSilesia grant project, National Science Foundation and Tulane University OGPS.