History
Since 2011, Skience has brought together researchers and students for winter schools focused on seismology, scientific software, and related methods. Browse the archive below for topics, lecturers, programmes, and supporting material from previous years.
2026 – ObsPy on the Rocks: Cryoseismology
22–27 February 2026 · Berghotel Sudelfeld
The 2026 winter school focused on cryoseismology, including icequakes, glacier interferometry, DAS on glaciers, wavefield gradients, and seismic monitoring of ice.
2025 – ObsPy Goes Downtown: Seismology in Cities
23–28 February 2025 · Berghotel Sudelfeld
The 2025 programme focused on urban seismology, including interferometry, 6C methods, DAS, seismic inversion, and monitoring of subsurface and building-related processes in cities.
2024 – Volcano Seismology
3–8 March 2024 · Berghotel Sudelfeld
This edition focused on volcano seismology, including tremor analysis, polarization analysis, tilt correction, hazard monitoring, source inversion, and early warning methods.
2023 – Environmental Seismology
26 February – 3 March 2023 · Berghotel Sudelfeld
The 2023 winter school focused on environmental seismology, including coda-wave interferometry, ground-velocity changes, gradient observations, and applications from hydrogeology to bioseismology.
2022 – Open Scientific Software (Cancelled)
13–18 March 2022
This edition was cancelled due to COVID. The planned topic was open community scientific software training, development, and maintenance.
2021 – Cancelled due to COVID-19
21–26 February 2021
The Skience Winter School planned for 2021 was cancelled due to the COVID situation.
2020 – Inverse Problems in Earth Sciences
16–21 February 2020 · Berghotel Sudelfeld
This winter school focused on methodologies relevant to inverse problems in Earth sciences, combining theory with practicals. The workshop was held in memory of Albert Tarantola.
2019 – Machine Learning in Earth Sciences
17–22 February 2019 · Berghotel Sudelfeld
The 2019 programme focused on machine learning methods for seismology and Earth sciences, including classification, regression, clustering, feature extraction, and deep learning with Python and Jupyter notebooks.
2018 – Wavefield Gradients, Strain, and Rotation
4–9 March 2018 · Berghotel Sudelfeld
This winter school focused on gradients, strain, and rotational ground motion, with applications to wavefield reconstruction, wavefield separation, and inverse problems.
2017 – Computational Seismology for Realistic Problems
19–24 February 2017 · Berghotel Sudelfeld
The 2017 school focused on recent developments in computational seismology, including Salvus, Axisem3D, homogenization, and practical exercises based on Jupyter notebooks.
2016 – Induced Seismicity
21–26 February 2016 · Berghotel Sudelfeld
This edition focused on induced seismicity using Python and ObsPy, including detection, location, magnitude estimation, catalogue completeness, earthquake statistics, and moment tensor inversion.
2015 – ObsPy Meets Seismic Simulation
22–27 February 2015 · Berghotel Sudelfeld
The 2015 school focused on the numerical foundations of seismic simulation, including finite-difference, pseudospectral, spectral element, and discontinuous Galerkin methods.
2014 – ObsPy Meets Seismic Arrays
23–28 February 2014 · Berghotel Sudelfeld
This year focused on seismic array processing, including beamforming, SPAC analysis, vespagrams, Capon methods, and array response, alongside introductions to Python and ObsPy.
2013 – ObsPy Meets Archiving and Simulation
10–15 March 2013 · Berghotel Sudelfeld
The 2013 winter school focused on efficient processing, storage, and visualization of large seismological data sets, including workflows built around ObsPy, SeisHub, and ses3d.
2012 – Signal Processing and Seismic Source Estimation
11–16 March 2012 · Berghotel Sudelfeld
This edition focused on signal processing with Python and ObsPy, earthquake source estimation, and the generation of Green’s functions for retrieving source information from 1D to 3D Earth models.
2011 – Processing and Simulating Seismic Waves
20–25 February 2011 · Berghotel Sudelfeld
The first Munich Earth Skience School focused on advanced tools in seismology, including ObsPy, SeisSol, and Ses3D, with training in seismic wave propagation, modelling, and visualization.