A dedicated short course on the use of the software GPlates will be held at this years’ EGU. GPlates is a “desktop software for the interactive visualisation of plate-tectonics“. It offers a “combination of interactive plate-tectonic reconstructions, geographic information system functionality and raster data visualisation“.
A screenshot of GPlates taken from http://www.gplates.org
GPlates is an open-source software running on Windows, Linux and MacOS X. It enables the interactive manipulation of plate-tectonic reconstructions and the visualization of geodata through geological time. The workshop will give an introduction to GPlates for new users, discussing basic GPlates functionality and working with reconstructions, including some examples for how to load your own data.
The course will be on Monday 13th April, 2015 between 6 and 8 in the evening, in Room B13 (Blue/Basement level of the Vienna Conference Centre). Attendance is free.
It is recommend that you take your laptop with GPlates pre-installed (download the software from the official page: http://www.gplates.org/). You are encouraged to also download the user manual and the tutorial files from https://sites.google.com/site/gplatestutorials/.
To register for the workshop or if you require further information, please send an email to maria.seton@sydney.edu.au
For more information about the session visit the EGU page:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2015/session/19051
