Underworld: A Research and teaching worflow for the development of geodynamic numerical models with Jupyter

Numerical geodynamic modelling is a powerful tool for testing concepts and ideas in Earth-Science. It is, however, often approached with anxiety by students and non-specialist alike and suffers from the traditional vision of being highly mathematical and requiring advanced coding skills. The popularity of the Python programming language and its development across disciplines provide an opportunity to make computational science more accessible to the general scientific community. Here we discuss how we design the user interface of our scientific code and how we construct online tutorials to facilitate the development of geodynamic models using Jupyter notebooks.