Last week the Software Underground hosted the latest edition of TRANSFORM, its annual festival of digital subsurface stuff. This year we had a packed schedule, including:

  • Folks sprinting on various software projects at the weekend.

  • 13 live hands-on tutorials on a wide range of topics.

  • Birds of a feather meet-ups to discuss the future of scientific virtual meetings.

  • Eight lightning talks on topics from sealice to web apps to scholarly communication.

  • The Annual General Meeting of the Software Underground organization.

All this was stitched together by the Slack chat, as usual. You can catch up on what you missed in the #t22-general channel. Our Slack is free to join and open to anyone.

The tutorials

Here’s a list of the tutorials, which were very high quality this year. All of them were 90 minutes to 2 hours long, and all are supported by fully open-source software and open-access materials. How awesome is that?

  • Getting started in Python, by Robert Leckenby (Agile).

  • GSTools, a toolbox for geostatistical modeling in Python, by Sebastian Müller (UFZ, Leipzig).

  • What is Markov chain Monte Carlo? By Miguel de la Varga (Terranigma).

  • Mandyoc, a finite element simulator for the mantle, by Agustina Pesce et al.

  • Machine learning models for geoscience, by Tom Ostersen (Datarock).

  • From Zero to Devito (geophysical modeling & inversion), by Rhodri Nelson (Devito).

  • Publishing your first Python package, by Matt Hall (Agile).

  • PyGIMLi (geophysical modeling & inversion), by Florian Wagner et al. (RWTH).

  • OccamyPy, an object-oriented optimization framework for large-scale inverse problems, by Francesco Picetti & Ettore Biondi (Stanford).

  • A geophysical tour of mid-ocean ridges, by Leonardo Uieda (U of Liverpool).

  • Self-supervised noise suppression, by Claire Birnie & Sixiu Liu (KAUST).

  • Julia for geoscience, by Francis Yin (Georgia Tech).

  • PyLops (geophysical modeling & inversion), by Matteo Ravasi et al. (KAUST).

If any of those sound good to you, and I hope they all do, check them out in this YouTube Playlist.

The lightning talks

As always, the lightning talks were a lot of fun. Check out the Description in this video for the full list of chapters:

That’s it for 2022. Hope to see you at TRANSFORM next year!