Release version 2024.12.02.1 in support of JOSS submission

[CDJellen]

Summary of core changes:

• Add python 3.12 support in CI
• Improve setup.py and pyproject.toml
• Include installation instructions for conda (from conda-forge) and installation from source
• Improved the flow of examples in the overview notebook
• Added a new CONTRIBUING.md which describes how to run tests and submit new features or requests.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed an example in the overview notebook which incorrectly formatted the lat-lon coordinates of an example buoy.
• Improved the descriptions on how to run tests, adding a new CONTRIBUTING.md

Future improvements:

• Include station metadata for get_data queries in which a single station is requested with use_opendap=True
• Align flag, parameter, and method names in light of the migration from netCDF4 to xarray
• Expose more of the xarray API for some common internal operations such as serializing netCDF4 data retrieved from the THREDDS API.