Tools

Assumed Audience: Scientists and/or programmers who work with NumPy and Python. All others are also welcome! Using Python empowered my scientific research. Since Python is free and open source, I avoid depending on my employer for my research tools.

When it comes to programming, there are a number of tasks that I spend time learning by searching the web and then subsequently forgetting by the next time I need that skill, so that I have to search the web all over again.

I use the Alfred App to improve my interactions with my Mac. In particular, I have been trying to really leverage the ability to create “workflows” in Alfred in order to streamline my work and remove annoyances.

Surface wind vectors from a simulation of the ancient Martian climate. Updated 2016-10-07 Thanks to @michaelaye for useful comments and corrections. I use a Mac computer for most of my climate research, since the Mac OS X operating system provides me computational foundation I need to develop and run planetary climate models.