Oceanography 2

Alfred Hochstaedter
ahochstaedter@mpc.edu

Syllabus Fall 2010

Syllabus as a Word file

 

MPC "Got Success"

A guide to student success

 

 Labs

 

Lab 1 -- 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 1 -- KEY

 

Lab 2a -- Pt Lobos Field Trip

7.0 miles south of MPC on CA highway 1

Directions

Lab 2b -- Creating Videos or Powerpoints

on line links

Video and images

 

Lab 3 -- Tectonics and the Ocean Floor

Lab 3 -- KEY

 

Lab 4 -- More About Charts: Triangulation and Bathymetry

Lab 4 -- KEY

 

Map skills practice sheet--including answers

 

Lab 5-- Rocks and Sediments

Lab 5 -- KEY

 

Lab 6 -- Water density

Lab 6 -- KEY

 

Lab 7 -- Water Masses eWOCE

Lab 7 -- Key

 

Saturday March 13 Field Trip: Tour of the Central CA Coast 8:00--4 pm

Field Trip Guide

Field Trip Key with Directions

 

Lab 8 -- Beach Profiles

Excel Spreadsheet

no key for this lab

 

Lab 9 -- Atmospheric Circulation

Lab 9 -- Key

 

Lab 10 -- Oceanic Circulation

Lab 10 -- Key

 

Lab 11 -- Tsunamis and Drifters

Lab 11 -- no KEY yet

 

 

Saturday May 1 Field Trip: Ocean Cruise 6:45--12 noon

 

 

Circulation lab -- html version

 

Lab 12 -- Monterey Bay Aquarium Field Trip

Lab 12 -- KEY

 

Lab 13 -- Marine Protected Areas

Lab 13 -- no Key for this lab

 

 

Class Project Description

 

PowerPoints

Nautical Charts and Navigation

Tectonics

Bathymetric charts

Continental Margins

Seafloor Sediments

Atmospheric Circulation

Sea Surface Circulation

Coastal Field Trip

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

 

Extra Credit Opportunities

 

Meetings of the American Cetacean Society, Monterey Bay Chapter

Last Thursday of every month

More info...

 

English Study Skills Center Workshops

 

In the News

 

The Drifters

Current MPC drifter track

--no username or password needed

 

The drifter tracking website

Instructions for the drifter tracking website

username: mates

password: drifters

 

November 14 Drifter Deployment

Intended drifter deployment location -- kml

Actual drifter deployment location -- kml

Student predictions after 2 days -- kml

Student predictions after 4 days -- kml

Drifter locations up to 4 am November 16 -- kml

Drifter locations up to November 18 -- kml

 

Gulf Stream drifter --kml

 

Nice animation of Gulf Stream Eddy formation

 

Late September and early October

MBARI drifter deployment

KML files for Google Earth:

351MBARI-Sept09.kml

390MBARI-Sept09.kml

351MBARI-Oct09.kml

390MBARI-Oct09.kml

 

JPEG of the two tracks (click on image for a larger version):

 

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

 

 

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