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ESIIL Learning Portal

Learn through open tutorials and course materials covering topics including data integration, GIS and data intensive science.

Explore our 312 earth data science lessons that will help you learn how to work with data in the R and Python programming languages.

Data Short Course

We are building a community of Environmental Data Science (EDS) educators through technical training and project based learning. Our Data Short Course introduces EDS educators and leaders to fundamental EDS education tools. Participants learn fundamental teaching tools for open EDS education and research including collaborative web publishing with GitHub, structuring text Markdown, and interactive computing with notebooks.

The 2025 Data Short Course just wrapped up, but stay tuned for our next course coming summer 2026. Click the link below to check out the course and its resources.

Interactive Guide for New Innovators and Technologists in Environmental Data Analytics

ESIIL IGNITE Data Analytics

If you are an environmental scientist, computer programmer, or statistician looking to get involved in the highly interdisciplinary field of Environmental Data Analytics, you’re in the right place. IGNITE resources are built around interactive computing notebooks. We often provide starter code if you want to work things out yourself, as well as working examples in the “See our solution” dropdown. 

Training Archive

Collaboration Plans Beyond the Proposal

Kayleigh Ward leads a workshop on Collaboration Plans Beyond the Proposal: Coordinating Communication, Care, and Collect...

AI for Environmental Researchers

This two part series is designed for environmental data scientists who want conceptual clarity before adoption.

Recognizing the "4 corners" of Proposal Dynamics

ESIIL postdoc, Kayleigh Ward discusses Recognizing the "4 Corners" of Proposal Dynamics in this hands on workshop for ou...