COURSE PROGRAMME

INTRODUCTION MEETING

TIME TABLE

Introduction to Marine Data

LECTURE 1, Monday 10 March 2025, 5pm – 7pm (Central European Time)

Key points of the lecture

  • Why do we need marine data?
  • How do we measure and model the sea?
  • Different types of marine data: physical, biogeochemical, ecological; models; observations (in situ + remote)
  • What is operational oceanography?
  • Technologies used to produce marine data
  • Temporal and spatial constraints in data collection and interpretation; how to measure and interpret data avoiding pitfalls
  • The value addition chain of data; downstream services and data product delivery

Reliable oceanographic data sources.

Met-ocean data sets: climate, reanalysis, forecast and in situ data

LECTURE 2, Thursday 13 March 2025, 5pm – 7pm (Central European Time)

Key points of the lecture

  • Met-ocean data: types and characteristics
  • Types of products PHYS CMEMS
  • Types of products INSITU CMEMS
  • “Data lexicon”: Quality information document and product user man

Online Data Portals

LECTURE 3, Monday 17 March 2025, 5pm – 7pm (Central European Time)

Key points of the lecture

  • What oceanographic data is freely available? How can this be accessed?
  • Demonstration of professional online data interfaces to visualise in near-real-time ocean data products
  • Portals from where numeric data derived from in-situ measurements, remote sensing, and forecasting models, can be downloaded
  • Demonstration of visualisation software including Panoply, the Sentinel Application Toolbox (SNAP), and QGIS, that can be used to process downloaded data
  • Simple data processing techniques to added-value products (such as colour composites, vegetation and water quality indices, etc…)

Introduction to Operational Modelling

LECTURE 4, Thursday 20 March 2025, 5pm – 7pm (Central European Time)

Key points of the lecture

  • What is a model?
  • Transport of a property: Eulerian vs Lagrangian
  • Discretisation in space and time
  • Model limitations
  • Initial and boundary conditions
  • Downscaling
  • Types of models
  • Operational modelling cycle
  • Data assimilation, analysis and reanalysis
  • Model validation

Introduction to EMODnet
Ocean Decade’s Data and Information Strategy

LECTURE 5, Monday 24 March 2025, 5pm – 7pm, (Central European Time)

Key points of the lecture

  • Data management tools, principles and technologies deployed by EMODnet
  • DCO Data Sharing, Decade’s Data and Information Strategy and related initiatives

Accessing and transforming data

LECTURE 6, Thursday 27 March 2025, 5pm – 7pm (Central European Time)

Key points of the lecture

  • Brief introduction to web scraping and API
  • Brief introduction to data wrangling
  • Interacting with data servers part 1 (openDAP)
  • Introduction to cloud storage and cloud computing

Fundamentals and examples of marine data analysis

LECTURE 7, Monday 31 March 2025, 5pm – 7pm, (Central European Summer Time)

Key points of the lecture

  • Statistical methods
  • Time series analysis
  • Spatial analysis of data fields
  • Climatological assessments

Managing and Processing (Big) Scientific Data

LECTURE 8, Thursday 3 April 2025, 5pm – 7pm, (Central European Summer Time)

Key points of the lecture

Managing (Big) Scientific Data

  • IT tools and systems
  • Relational Database Management Systems
    • Data model
    • Basic properties of transactions in RDMS
  • Geo-Information systems
    • Spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal data models
    • NoSQL Databases
    • Data models
    • Cap-theorem (consistency and availability)

Processing (Big) Scientific Data

  • Data Preprocessing
  • Overview on Distributed Data Processing
    • Hadoop, map-reduce
    • Spark
    • Flink

Introduction to learning algorithms, neural networks and clustering

LECTURE 9, Monday 7 April 2025, 5pm – 7pm (Central European Summer Time)

Key points of the lecture

  • What is unsupervised learning?
  • Distinction between clustering and classification
  • Cluster properties and basic approaches to cluster analysis
  • Examples of some algorithm and applications
  • What is supervised learning?
  • Distinction between classification and regression problem
  • Learning algorithms and why are the introduced
  • Learning as an optimization problem. Gradient descent. Local optimum
  • Linear separability and complexity of neural network architecture
  • Simple (shallow) neural network implementation

Applying AI to Oceanography: case studies

LECTURE 10, Thursday 10 April 2025, 5pm – 7pm, (Central European Summer Time)

Key points of the lecture

Case studies and demonstration of the different AI/ML models used in Oceanography

Introduction to Python

INTRO TO PHYTON, Time and date will be updated soon

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Key points of the lecture

Part 1 is designed for beginners and those looking to refresh their Python knowledge.

  • Syntax
  • Variables
  • Data types
  • Basic operations
  • Loops
  • Conditional statements

Introduction to Python

INTRO TO PHYTON 2, Time and date will be updated soon

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Key points of the lecture

Part 2 builds upon the knowledge gained in Part 1 of the Introduction to Python module.

  • Functions
  • Modules
  • Libraries

Introduction to Physical Mobility in Gdansk

INTRO TO PRACTICAL SESSIONS, Monday 28 Apr 2025, 5pm – 7pm (Central European Summer Time)

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