Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC)

Promoting information technology infrastructures for the international paleomagnetic, geomagnetic and rock magnetic community.

MagIC 2020 Workshop: Rock and Paleomagnetism through Time and Space MagIC is hosting a workshop on March 16th-18th, 2020 at SIO in La Jolla, CA.
Important Links

The 2020 MagIC Workshop has been canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak and UCSD guidelines

It has been rescheduled for January 20th-22nd, 2021. We will be setting up a new website and start firming up our plans once the current crisis has stabilized.

Zoom Demos in Lieu of Day Three of the Workshop

We will still be hosting some of the day three demos via Zoom (see below for schedule and Zoom connection details) from noon to 1pm PDT each day. Please turn off your video on Zoom to improve performance and mute your microphone when not speaking. We will be recording these demos and posting them on our YubeTube channel ( youtube.com/channel/UC-DbvhEu49a6dZXdvUWorhQ). If you have not already done so and plan to attend, please fill out the following form so we can anticipate the attendance.

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and then follow the "Preparation" instructions under the demo description in the schedule. Please send questions to Nick Jarboe (njarboe@ucsd.edu).

We hope you will attend.

Schedule

Monday, March 16th - noon to 1pm Pacific Time: Nick Jarboe - Uploading data to MagIC - Description of the MagIC data model. Uploading data from previously published papers and legacy data sets at the site level using Excel, csv, text, or other data formats.

Preparation: Look over the MagIC data model 3.0 online (earthref.org/MagIC/data-models/3.0). Nick Jarboe will be uploading data from Schnepp et al. 2020 (doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz492). A google doc with links from the talk and a place for comments and suggestions can be found at: tinyurl.com/tvqmkdh

Tuesday, March 17th - noon to 1pm Pacific Time: Nick Swanson-Hysell - Introduction to Pmag GUI - Example work flow of converting from lab format to MagIC format using Pmag GUI. Make fits to these data using Demag GUI and then create a file that can be uploaded to MagIC . Download a MagIC contribution, unpack the file, and inspect/modify fits in Demag GUI.

Preparation: Download and run the Pmag GUI software found at the PmagPy GitHub site. Download the Pmag_GUI executable program Download the latest release of the PmagPy GUI software: Mac: github.com/PmagPy/PmagPy-Standalone-OSX/releases/latest The first time you open the Mac version, you need to right-click and select open. You may need to right-click and select open twice. Double-clicking will not open as we are not Apple-verified developers. Windows: github.com/PmagPy/PmagPy-Standalone-Windows/releases/latest You may need to click through a warning about unidentified developers. Linux: github.com/PmagPy/PmagPy-Standalone-Linux/ releases Note that the software, particularly the Windows version, can take a long time to load. Be patient. Download this repository Download and unpack the .zip of this repository so that you have the raw data that we will be working with: github.com/Swanson-Hysell-Group/2020_Demag_GUI_tutorial/archive/master.zip

The full tutorial writeup can be found here: github.com/Swanson-Hysell-Group/2020_Demag_GUI_tutorial/

Wednesday, March 18th - noon to 1pm Pacific Time: Lisa Tauxe - PmagPy using Jupyter notebooks - Wednesday, March 18th: Lisa Tauxe - PmagPy using Jupyter notebooks - This session covers how to use PmagPy with Jupyter notebooks in three parts. Exercise 1 looks at a typical "directional" data set and shows how to make useful plots like the equal area projection, maps of VGPs and basemaps of site locations. Exercise 2 shows how to get geomagnetic vectors from IGRF-like tables and several ways of looking at the data through time and space. Exercise 3 considers directional (polarity), anisotropy data and natural gamma radiation (NGR), a measure of the dominance of clay versus diatomaceous ooze in this core, as a function of depth in an IODP core. We will have a Jupyter server set up for people to login to, follow along, and experiment.

Preparation: Make sure you know your MagIC username(handle) and password. If you don't know your MagIC username and password, login to the MagIC website at ( earthref.org/MagIC). You can login using your ORCID id or your username and password, or create an account with your ORCID id. You can then view, set, or edit your username and password by clicking on your name in the upper right of the webpage. If you created your account with an ORCID id, you will have to set your username and password. If you want to look at the notebook ahead of time you can find it here (github.com/PmagPy/PmagPy/blob/master/MagIC_workshop_demo.ipynb)

Zoom Connection Instructions
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