Join Dr. Ben Mather and Dr. Nicky Wright in an epic whirlwind tour of pyGPlates.
This repository contains jupyter notebooks showcasing some of the ways in which you can use pygplates. It accompanies the 2022 GPlates and pyGPlates workshop.
- Quick intro to Python and Jupyter
- Getting started with PyGPlates: reconstructing points and coastlines
- Motion paths and flowlines
- Spreading and subduction rates
- Reconstructing larger datasets
- Velocities and an animation
PyGPlates documentation can be found here.
More pygplates notebooks can be found here.
The course will be held entirely online in the browser using the edstem platform, so no installation is necessary. However, if you wish to install pyGPlates on your own machine after the course then here are some instructions.
- Download and install the latest pygplates version corresponding to your system architecture and operating system (Windows, Mac OS (Intel and ARM), Ubuntu are all supported) and take note of the installation directory and python path.
- Install conda (we recommend miniforge) and create a new environment e.g.
conda create -n pygplates python=3.9. - Activate your new python environment with
conda activate pygplates - Install the following dependencies:
conda install numpy scipy netcdf4 geopandas pandas cartopy jupyter rasterio conda-build - Link to your pygplates installation using the python path you wrote down at step 1. In my case
conda develop /Users/ben/Downloads/pygplates_0.35.0_py39_Darwin-arm64 - Install some additional dependencies:
pip install PlateTectonicTools.
Now you should have a working pyGPlates installation with additional dependencies required to run this course! Additional details on installing pyGPlates can be found here. A conda package for pyGPlates is being developed.