diff --git a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
index e59e0d1..1400248 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
+++ b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ COPY install.R install.R
 RUN Rscript install.R
 
 # some teaching preferences
-RUN git --system config pull.rebase false
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+RUN git config --global pull.rebase false
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diff --git a/.devcontainer/requirements.txt b/.devcontainer/requirements.txt
index 033f5ff..501a4d2 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/requirements.txt
+++ b/.devcontainer/requirements.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ beautifulsoup4==4.12.2
 bleach==6.0.0
 cachetools==5.3.2
 certifi==2023.7.22
+cf-xarray==0.8.6
 cffi==1.15.1
 charset-normalizer==3.2.0
 click==8.1.7
@@ -34,9 +35,11 @@ fonttools==4.42.1
 fqdn==1.5.1
 fsspec==2023.9.2
 geopandas==0.14.0
+geopolars==0.1.0a4
 Glances==3.4.0.3
 idna==3.4
 importlib-metadata==6.8.0
+importlib-resources==6.1.1
 ipykernel==6.25.2
 ipython==8.15.0
 isoduration==20.11.0
@@ -56,6 +59,7 @@ jupyterlab==4.0.6
 jupyterlab-pygments==0.2.2
 jupyterlab_server==2.25.0
 kiwisolver==1.4.5
+llvmlite==0.41.1
 locket==1.0.0
 MarkupSafe==2.1.3
 matplotlib==3.8.0
@@ -67,6 +71,7 @@ nbconvert==7.8.0
 nbformat==5.9.2
 nest-asyncio==1.5.8
 notebook_shim==0.2.3
+numba==0.58.1
 numpy==1.26.0
 odc-geo==0.4.1
 odc-stac==0.3.8
@@ -80,11 +85,13 @@ pexpect==4.8.0
 pickleshare==0.7.5
 Pillow==10.0.1
 platformdirs==3.10.0
+polars==0.19.15
 prometheus-client==0.17.1
 prompt-toolkit==3.0.39
 psutil==5.9.5
 ptyprocess==0.7.0
 pure-eval==0.2.2
+pyarrow==14.0.1
 pycparser==2.21
 Pygments==2.16.1
 pyparsing==3.1.1
@@ -106,6 +113,7 @@ rfc3339-validator==0.1.4
 rfc3986-validator==0.1.1
 rioxarray==0.15.0
 rpds-py==0.10.3
+scipy==1.11.3
 Send2Trash==1.8.2
 shapely==2.0.1
 simplejson==3.19.2
@@ -114,6 +122,7 @@ sniffio==1.3.0
 snuggs==1.4.7
 sortedcontainers==2.4.0
 soupsieve==2.5
+sparse==0.14.0
 stack-data==0.6.2
 stackstac==0.5.0
 tblib==3.0.0
@@ -135,5 +144,6 @@ webencodings==0.5.1
 websocket-client==1.6.3
 xagg==0.1.4
 xarray==2023.8.0
+xesmf==0.8.2
 zict==3.0.0
 zipp==3.17.0
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index ef505bd..0000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-xarray==2023.8.0
-odc-stac
-rasterstats