EarthScope Consortium is offering a free, asynchronous, self-paced course: “Introduction to Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) for Geophysics” (~30 hours).
No fixed schedule — work through it at your own pace, online, with just a computer and internet connection.
Modules:
More info here.
Some remarks while going through the pre-course skills test.
NB: I’m not a geophysicist, but t’s been possible to understand the pre-course geophysical questions on my level - except Question 20 where my guess failed.
Question 16 answers do not make sense, as the command seems to be fully correct and downloads two earthquake events:
question 14, the parameter -F... is incorrectly used. Also the output redirection character appears more than once on the command line. But the proposed answers do not make any sense:
Question 9, I thought these arguments are called options, but many of these are mandatory, not optional (unless my English fails me miserably). I would call these command-line arguments instead to avoid the suspected ambiguity:
