Here’s a news update from Alison Post, who was a postdoc in the lab from 2021-2023 and is now Program Manager for the Earth Lab at CU Boulder:
“I had a great time at ESA last week presenting a workshop on PhenoCam. The workshop was titled Using GitHub Codespaces to Access and Visualize PhenoCam Data in the Classroom. We developed an interactive lesson for students to start playing with PhenoCam data in R using a simple web-based coding interface. This method allows students to skip the often frustrating step of downloading R and all the necessary packages before starting to code.
It was well-attended, and participants enjoyed learning about PhenoCam (as always!). The code I developed allows you to enter any site and graph GCC [green chromatic coordinate], changes in SOS [start of season] and EOS [end of season] through time, and make a nice layout and video gif of a year of imagery. We also developed a digital textbook page with an associated instruction video for the lesson.”
Congratulations Alison, and thanks for letting us know about these fantastic resources!
