hotfix - freezing pandas <3.0

We are working on updates to accomodate some breaking changes in pandas 3.0. for the moment, though, we are pinning at <3.0 to make sure the code still works.

Author: mnfienen

installation/environment.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ channels:
   - nodefaults
 dependencies:
   # required
-  - python=3.12
+  - python=3.14
   - pip
 
   - numpy
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ dependencies:
   - scipy
   - openpyxl
   - xlrd
-  - pandas
+  - pandas<3.0
   - netcdf4
   - pyshp
   - rasterio