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This repository includes a listing of computing resources and accompanying documentation that can be helpful in familiarizing oneself with various tools and software that are used in Geography research, instruction, and learning.

For in-depth workshop opportunities relevant to these resources and other useful materials, check out the following resources:

• UBC Library Research Commons Workshops

• UBC Library Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Guide

• UBC Geospatial Resources

• Earth Lab

• The Turing Way - handbook to reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science

If you are a faculty member within our department, and you are seeking information on acquiring local computing hardware, you can can contact the Geography IT team for advice and support in procuring, setting up, and maintaining laptops and workstations.

For research computing, review Cloud Computing and High-Performance Computing (HPC) / High-Throughput Computing (HTC) to identify available resources through UBC Advanced Research Computing and the Digital Research Alliance.

And for instructional use, our department hosts and manages two computer labs that are specialized to fit the instructional needs of our faculty. Additionally, UBC Learning Technology (LT) Hub maintains a JupyterHub instance that can be remotely accessed via a web browser and is open to all UBC students. Each student is allocated a single CPU core, 3 GB of RAM, and 10 GB of storage in an environment where programming languages, like Python, R, and Julia are pre-installed to run scripts and computational notebooks.