GIA Workshop 2025
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The G-ADOPT team will be holding a workshop focused on Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) in Hobart, Tasmania on Tuesday 04/11/25. We welcome all participants, including existing and prospective users, developers, and collaborators.
A tentative schedule is included below. Note the workshop will take place the day before the ACEAS conference in Hobart.
🕘 Schedule (Tentative)
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 09:30 – 10:15 | Welcome & Introduction — Overview of GIA modelling in G-ADOPT. |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Tutorial 1: Base case setup (includes coffee break). |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | Lunch. |
| 13:15 – 13:30 | Tutorial 2: Annulus demo (fly through) — visualising checkpointed states in ParaView (no code run). |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Primer – Adjoint Theory — Key concepts and intuition. |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Tutorial 3: Adjoint inversion — recovering unknown viscosity structure. |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Break. |
| 15:45 – 16:45 | Participant Challenge: Exploring sensitivity of viscosity estimates to ice-sheet size using adjoint kernels. |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Wrap-Up Discussion. |
| 17:00 → | Pub! 🍻 |
🧩 Notes
- Bring a laptop if you’d like to follow along with the practicals.
- Tutorials will be run on Google Colab, so please make sure you have a Google account set up beforehand.
- To visualise results, please install ParaView ahead of time.