Oceanography 2

Alfred Hochstaedter
ahochstaedter@mpc.edu

Syllabus Spring 2009

Syllabus as a Word file

 

Labs

Lab 1, Introduction to Seafloor Features

Lab 1 -- KEY

Lab 2, Navigational chart skills

Declination image

NOTE: The maps and a parallel ruler are on reserve at the library for you to finish the lab or practice further.

Short parallel ruler video tutorial
Lab 2- KEY

Lab 3, Tectonics on the Ocean Floor

Lab 3- KEY

Lab 4, More about maps and charts

Lab 4- KEY

Map skills practice sheet--including answers

Lab 5- Rocks and Sediments

Lab 5- KEY

Saturday October 11 Field Trip: Tour of the Central CA Coast 8:00--3 pm

Field Trip Guide

Field Trip Key with Directions

Lab 6, Beach Profiles

Excel Spreadsheet

no key for this lab

Lab 7, Water density

Lab 7- KEY

Lab 8, Water Masses

Lab 8, KEY

Lab 9,  Monterey Bay Aquarium Field Trip

Lab 9- KEY

Lab 10, Marine Protected Areas

Lab 10- no Key for this lab

Lab 11 Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulation -- HTML

Lab 11 - Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulation --Word

Lab 11- KEY

 

Class Project Description

 

PowerPoints

Tectonics

Walking Field Trip 1

Map Lab 1: Latitude and Longitude

Continental Margins

Seafloor Sediments

Atmospheric Circulation

Sea Surface Circulation

 

Coastal Field Trip

YouTube Videos

Hydrothermal Vents and Origin of Life

Hydrothermal Vent footage

Textbook website with quizzes and review material

 

Extra Credit Opportunities

 

The Monterey Institute Conservation Symposium

Saturday April 25 10-6 pm

Keynote speaker Stephan Schwartzman, 5 pm

Irvine Auditorium, MIIS

499 Pierce St. Monterey, CA

 

 

The Extra Credit Assignment

Write a one to two page paper that describes

1) what the person or people said

2) your thoughts about what the person of people said

3) whether or not the presentation involved using the scientific method.

  a) if it did, please describe how it used the scientific method. Were there descriptions of observations, developing hypotheses, testing the hypotheses, developing theories? Did the person present evidence of how and/or why we should be certain of the conclusions?  Was there discussion of questions that remain unanswered?

   b) if it did not, what aspect(s) of the scientific method were missing? In other words, why are you saying that the presentation did not involve the scientific method?

***Please note: The presence of the scientific method in a presentation is not a judgment of "good" or "bad". You very well might go to a wonderful, inspiring, valuable presentation that does not happen to involve the scientific method. That's perfectly OK. The point of the assignment is practice in analyzing how we know what we know.

 

ROV Video Clips

Shale Beds

fish school

fish school 2

shale

shale and algea

Granite

anemone

mitridium and ripples

ripples and stars

 

 

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

 

Other information of interest

 

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