Oceanography 2/2L

Alfred Hochstaedter
ahochstaedter@mpc.edu

Syllabus Fall 2011

  

Course Schedule

 

MPC "Got Success"

A guide to student success

 

Class Project Description

 

PowerPoints and Google Earth Presentations

Nautical Charts and Navigation

Bathymetry and Contour Lines

Tectonics

Bathymetric Charts

Continental Margins

Continental Margins on Google Earth

Coasts on Google Earth

Seafloor Sediments

Water Properties

Atmospheric Circulation

Sea Surface Circulation

Health of the Oceans -- prep for Aquarium Field Trip

El Nino

Waves

Tsunamis and Tides

Coastal Field Trip

 

ETOPO1--ocean.kml

Old Labs

YouTube Videos

Hydrothermal Vents and Origin of Life

Hydrothermal Vent footage

 

Tsunami Video Thailand

Tsunami Video Sri Lanka

Textbook website with quizzes and review material

 

Reading Guides

 

Test 1 Guide

Test 2 Guide

Final Guide

 

Google Earth Data Files

 

MPC Drifter Deployed May 1, 2011

 

2011 Tsunami Page

 

Extra Credit Opportunities

 

Meetings of the American Cetacean Society, Monterey Bay Chapter

Last Thursday of every month

More info...

 

News Articles

The Pacific Ocean's 'corridors of life'

David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/22/BAMB1JVGU5.DTL#ixzz1Q3MFvJCV

 

 

The Drifters

Current MPC drifter track

 

CENCOOS Ocean Data

 

NY Times article on surface water

circulation in Monterey Bay

Article on the MY Times website

Article as a word document on MPC servers

Podcast featuring the author of the NY Times article

 

 

ROV Video Clips

Shale Beds

fish school

fish school 2

shale

shale and algea

Granite

anemone

mitridium and ripples

ripples and stars

 

Side-Scan Sonar Images

granite 1

granite 2

shale 1

shale 2

barge
water column

 

Marine Protected Areas along California's Central Coast

SF Chronicle report

California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative



Pew Oceans Commission Report:

America's Living Ocean: Charing a Course for Sea Change


Maps for the tectonics lab

 

large version of the global map

 

large version of the MBNMS map

 

 

Satellite Data

Global Composite

Sea level pressure analysis

SeaWifs animation

 

Coriolis Movie

 

Coriolis Animation

 

The best Coriolis site, with lots of animations

 

Other information of interest

 

Wave particles in motion

http://paws.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos/waves/wavemotion.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ocean Data Links

Use these for viewing temperature, bathymetry,

salinity, etc.. about the ocean basins

 

*  Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center web site (www.marinetech.org):

       -  Job listing page
       -  Internship page