Geospatial Data in Python by Carson Farmer.
Materials for the tutorial: Geospatial Data in Python: Database, Desktop, and the Web by Carson Farmer (Associate Director of CARSI lab).
Important skills if you are concerned about projects such as the Keystone XL Pipeline:
This is an instance where having the skills to combine geospatial, archaeological, and other data together will empower local communities to minimize the damage they will suffer from this project.
Having a background in the processing geophysical data is the first step in that process.