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Geological studies inherently involve the use of incomplete data sets; therefore extrapolation is required between exposed outcrops. Field campaigns provide the means to gather these observations, and paper-based field notebooks have traditionally been used to systematically record these. The emergence of digital tools, including tablets with a multitude of built-in sensors, allows gathering many of these observations digitally and in a geo-referenced context. This is particularly important in the polar environments where 1) limited time is available at each outcrop due to harsh weather conditions, and 2) outcrops are rarely re-visited due to the high economic and environmental cost of accessing the localities and the short field season. In an educational development project we explored the use of digital field notebooks in student groups of 3-4 persons during five geological field campaigns in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. The field campaigns formed part of the Bachelor and Master/PhD Manuscript (revised)

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An important skill that students in solid Earth physics need to acquire is the ability to write computer programs that can be used for the processing, analysis, and modeling of geophysical data and phenomena. Therefore, this skill (which we call “computational geophysics”) is a core part of any undergraduate geophysics curriculum. In this Forum, we share our personal experience in teaching such a course.