How to build Conda packages?
Tricks of the Trade

How to build Conda packages?

As mentioned, packages can be installed directly from our conda channel. You may however want to build your own package at some point in the future or you may want to fix some of ours by submitting a Pull Request on github (You are more welcome to do so...) The
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Getting started with Pull requests
Tricks of the Trade

Getting started with Pull requests

Version control systems and online-communities such as Github have made contributing to the development of opensource software incredibly easy. That is assuming that people get over their initial fear of sharing their code!  In this short blog post I go through how to submit a pull request to one of
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Underworld 2.10
Underworld Code

Underworld 2.10

Underworld 2.10 has dropped... kidding this is a benchmark model proposed by Schmalholz, 2011, A simple analytical solution for slab detachment.
Stripy 2.0 released
Stripy

Stripy 2.0 released

Generating Voronoi diagrams and interpolating / smoothing with spline tensions are among a list of new features in Stripy 2.0
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Australian Seismometers in Schools - Noise monitoring dashboard
AuScope UW Cloud

Australian Seismometers in Schools - Noise monitoring dashboard

How we built a simple dashboard using Github actions with open source software and openly available (FAIR) data.
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Australian cities are quiet during lockdown. Earthquake scientists are making the most of it
Geodynamics

Australian cities are quiet during lockdown. Earthquake scientists are making the most of it

Meghan S. Miller (ANU) Louis Moresi (ANU) Our responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have dramatically changed human activity all over the world. Sensitive instruments are detecting far less of the noise and vibration produced by humans in motion.
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Underworld publication news: Crustal thickness anomalies in stable continents.
Geodynamics

Underworld publication news: Crustal thickness anomalies in stable continents.

The Underworld team would like to congratulate Bénédicte Cenki-Tok and co-authors at the University of Sydney and the University of Montpellier on their recent publication, B. Cenki-Tok, P.F. Rey, D. Arcay; Strain and retrogression partitioning explain long-term stability of crustal roots in stable continents. Geology doi: https://doi.org/
Underworld's  lightweight cloud for online classrooms.
AuScope UW Cloud

Underworld's lightweight cloud for online classrooms.

We built a cheap-and-cheerful solution with persistent storage and a binder-like access to notebooks in a repository that is aimed at serving a single classroom. The zero-to-server time is just a few minutes and there is minimal manual configuration.
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Underworld 2.9
Underworld Code

Underworld 2.9

The Underworld 2.9 release is available from Github, as a docker container and via zenodo (doi:10.5281/zenodo.3964957) it is also available through pip install for the first time
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JOSS publication - Underworld 2
Underworld Code

JOSS publication - Underworld 2

A new paper by John Mansour and others has just been published in the Journal of Open Source Software. Mansour, J., Giordani, J., Moresi, L., Beucher, R., Kaluza, O.,  Velic,  M., Farrington, R., Quenette, S., Beall, A., 2020, Underworld2:  Python  Geodynamics Modelling for Desktop, HPC and Cloud, Journal of Open
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