Lecture #1

Jan. 19

OVERVIEW:
__Brief History of Marine Sciences from 1800s to the present; current and future issues
__Limitations to Marine Research; and Methods including spacecraft, submersibles and remote sensors

TOPIC LINKS: --Overfishing
--MBARI and new deep-sea sensor observatory MARS
--See the The latest satellite images of earth at this NOAA site.
--SeaWIFS Homepage --US Govt satellite monitoring of the world's ecological features. To see current and archived satellite maps of ocean color (chlorophyll), go to the Ocean Color site and click on LEVEL 1 and 2 or on LEVEL 3 BROWSER links.
--CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE
--TOPP: Tagging of Pacific Pelagics/Predators: satellite tracking technology for migratory marine animals
--Sound in the Sea: learn about hydrophone arrays; hear sounds of earthquakes and whales and of mystery sounds (deep-sea monsters?? click for CNN story) from the arrays!

Lectures #2-3

Jan. 20-21

I. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS:
__A. TECTONIC: plate boundaries and hot spots; seamounts
__B. SURFACES: 1. Rock and 2. Sediments--Lithogenous, Biogenous;
____& 3. Hydrogenous--hydrothermal metal sulfide chmineys, manganese nodules, methane hydrates

TOPIC LINKS: --TECTONICS of the terrible HAITI EARTHQUAKE
--New initiatives in Climate Change training/research (Whitman !)
--This Dynamic Earth--USGS site on Plate Tectonics
Animations shown in class: 1) Seafloor spreading ; 2) Seafloor-->Land subduction; 3) India colliding with Asia; 4) Hotspot animation
--Tectonic animations at PBS Savage Earth
--JPL's Seafloor Mapping by Satellite Altimetry and How Satellite mapping works!
--New Millenium Observatory (NeMO) : 3d Virtual Reality explorations of Juan de Fuca vents !
--Seamounts and their lifeforms explored for the first time (2002-03): Davidson Seamount off California and a seamount chain off New England. Videos and pictures at these websites!

Lectures #4-6

Jan. 22-27

I. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS:
__C. MOVEMENTS: 1. Waves 2. Currents
__D. Other PHYSICAL Factors: 1. Light 2. Temperature; 3. Density; 4. Pressure

TOPIC LINKS:--Wave animation machine at PBS Savage Seas
--Coriolis effect animations
--PBS Savage Earth -- tsunami animation
--An animation of wind-belt cells
--Thermohaline currents animation
--Animation of Tides from Earth-Moon rotation
--Tide Calculator

Lectures #6-8
Jan. 27-Feb. 2

I. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS:
__E. CHEMICAL Factors
__F. BIOTIC Factors: types of interactions

TOPIC LINKS:
--A primer on IRON FERTILIZATION of the OCEANS

Lectures #8-9

Feb. 2-3

II. MARINE ECOLOGY
__A. POPULATION; __B. COMMUNITY __C. ECOSYSTEMS--basic features
Quantitative measurements: Abundance, Richness, Diversity

TOPIC LINKs: SeaWIFS Homepage --US Govt satellite monitoring of the world's ecological features. To see current and archived satellite maps of ocean color (chlorophyll), go to the Ocean Color site and click on LEVEL 1 and 2 or on LEVEL 3 BROWSER links.
--Overview of Global warming as seen in ice and snow changes
--NRDC Global Warming Site
--See the The latest satellite images of earth's weather at this NOAA site.

Lecture #9-10
Feb. 3-4

III. ORGANISMAL Biology
__Types of Organisms
__TROPHIC Features
__ ADAPTATION: Principles!

TOPIC LINKS: Census of Marine Life
--Tree of Life Page
--Microbe-of-the-Month Pages with biofilm and marine bacteria
--List of Marine Phyla
--Crab-Claw animation at U. Alberta
--Marine Genomics research and Ocean Genome Legacy

FEB. 5

EXAM I

TOPIC LINKS: Review Outline!
--Old Exam with answers--from EXPLORER, use PRINT PREVIEW and PAGE SETUP to fit these to 1 page each!
--Old Exam pg 1; Old Exam pg 2; Old Exam pg 3; Old Exam article

--Exam I RESULTS this year

Lectures #11-16

Feb. 9-17

IV. BENTHIC BIOLOGY--GENERAL

TOPIC LINKs:

--Mantis Shrimp: Sheila Patek, UCB, talks about her discoveries about this amazing kick-boxing animal
--Snapping Shrimp: the biophysics of a unique ambush technique
--Cone shells and their toxins with videos
--Crab-Claw animation at U. Alberta

Lectures #17-20
Feb. 17-25

IV. BENTHIC BIOLOGY: INTERTIDAL Rocky

TOPIC LINKs:

FEB. 26

EXAM II

TOPIC LINKS: Review Outline!
--Old Exam with answers--from EXPLORER, use PRINT PREVIEW and PAGE SETUP to fit these to 1 page each!
--Old Exam pg 1; Old Exam pg 2; Old Exam pg 3;

--Exam II RESULTS this year

Lectures #20-22
Feb. 17-25

IV. BENTHIC BIOLOGY: INTERTIDAL SANDY/MUDDY; ESTUARIES

TOPIC LINKs:

Lectures #22-23
Mar. 3-4

IV. BENTHIC BIOLOGY: SUBTIDAL

TOPIC LINK: Guide to Life under the Antarctic Ice--great photos

Lectures #24-25
Mar. 5-9

IV. BENTHIC BIOLOGY: CORAL REEFS

TOPIC LINKS: --Bacterial diseases on reefs
--The Reef Relief Page
--The Reef Education Network
--NOAA's Reef Monitoring program

Lectures #26-27
Mar. 10-11

V. PELAGIC BIOLOGY: PLANKTON

FIELD TRIP!
Mar. 21-28

FIELD TRIP! Schedule for this year's Field Trip
Lectures: TBA
TOPIC LINKs--ORCA FM--live broadcast of Pacific NW orcas; other orca information

Lectures #28-30
Mar. 28-Apr. 1

V. PELAGIC BIOLOGY-- NEKTON Adaptations Part I

TOPIC LINKs:

EXAM III
Apr. 2

EXAM III 

Lectures #31-34
Apr. 7-14

V. PELAGIC BIOLOGY-- NEKTON Adaptations Part II

TOPIC LINKs: Whale/Dolphin NEWS
---The Center for Cetacean Research and Conservation, including Songs of the Humpback whale
--Sounds of the Minke Whale (recently discovered)--download the whale's mysterious "Star Wars" sound
--Dolphin and Whale sounds with sound files to download
--The Dolphin Institute--learn about social adaptations and language abilities in dolphins
--Blue Whale photos underwater!
--The Elephant Seal pages with Live Seal beach Camera!
--Gail Patricelli, a Whitman Biology-Art grad: her robotic-bird test of bird courtship behavior (not marine, but very cool!)

V. PELAGIC BIOLOGY--DEEP PELAGIC:

TOPIC LINKS: Bioluminescence page - information on deepsea biological light production
__Prof. Yancey's pictures of mesopelagic fishes

IV. BENTHIC BIOLOGY--The DEEP SEA FLOOR:

TOPIC LINKS: NOAA Ocean Explorer site --recent expeditions and videos of deep-sea vents, volcanoes, etc.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Inst.
--NOAA Monitors Eruption off Oregon coast: Apr. 2001--ASSIGNED reading
--COLD SEEPS: for lots of detail and pictures, see the MBARI SITE or PENN-STATE SITE (both excellent)
--HYDROTHERMAL VENTS: see U.W.'s Exploraquarium Vents Site
OR see the Office of Naval Research Vents site for animations!
--High-Pressure Effects
--Virtual Tour of Rift Valley at UCSB
--A Manganese Nodule picture; and --The Manganese nodule web site
--Hydrocarbon-seep tubeworm in the Gulf of Mexico--the oldest known invertebrates? See NY Times article
--Prof. Yancey's Deep-Sea Pages for pictures of bathyal and abyssal animals (optional)
--Prof. Yancey's New Deep-Sea Research Pages for the latest deepsea news stories and research (optional)
--Weird deepsea squid discovered (2001)

Lectures #39-40
Apr. 22-23

VI. HUMANS INTERACTIONS: Resources and Global Change

TOPIC LINKS: _NEWS on FISHERIES at Christian Science Monitor
-- Overfishing
--Fisheries monitoring on an offshore bank
--Mediterranean Tuna face extinction (2002

TOPIC LINKS: The Oceans in Trouble
--Fate of DOM and the Greenhouse effect
--Rogue Algae--invaders wipe out locals
--Fisheries monitoring on an offshore bank
--Mediterranean Tuna face extinction (2002)

May 13 or APRIL??

FINAL EXAM

TOPIC LINK: Review OUTLINE!
--Old Exam with answers--from EXPLORER, use PRINT PREVIEW and PAGE SETUP to fit these to 1 page each!
-- Final pg 1; Final pg 2; Final pg 3; Sample pg 4 ; Final pg 5; Final pg 6.
__ FINAL EXAM RESULTS and ANSWERS