Lecture #1
Jan. 21 |
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.
For Lectures 1 and 2:
--CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE
--TOPP: Tagging of
Pacific Pelagics: new 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. 23-26 |
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: --Animations shown in class: 1) Seafloor spreading ; 2) Seafloor-->Land subduction; 3) India colliding with Asia; 4) Hotspot animation
--This
Dynamic Earth--USGS site on Plate Tectonics
--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 #3-5
Jan. 26-30 |
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
--Tsunami
animation at Office of Naval Research and at PBS
Savage Earth
--Animation
of Gulf Stream and temperature
--Animation
of wind-belt cells
--Thermohaline currents
animation
--Animation of Tides from Earth-Moon rotation
--Tide
Calculator
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Lectures 6-7
Feb. 2-4 |
I. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS:
__E. CHEMICAL Factors
__F. BIOTIC Factors: types of interactions
TOPIC LINKS:
--A primer on IRON FERTILIZATION of the OCEANS |
Lecture #8
Feb. 6 |
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. |
FEB. 9 |
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 |
Lecture #9-12
Feb. 11-20 |
III. ORGANISMAL Biology/ Marine
LIFE
TOPIC LINKS: Census
of Marine Life
--Tree
of Life Page
--Microbe-of-the-Month
Pages with biofilm and marine bacteria
--List
of Marine Phyla
--Marine Genomics
research and Ocean Genome
Legacy |
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Lectures #13-14
Feb. 23-25 |
IV. BENTHIC BIOLOGY--GENERAL
TOPIC LINKs:
--Snapping
Shrimp: the biophysics of a unique ambush technique
--Cone
shells and their toxins with videos
--Crab-Claw
animation at U. Alberta |
Lectures #15-18
Feb. 27-Mar. 6 |
IV. BENTHIC BIOLOGY: INTERTIDAL
TOPIC LINK: |
Mar. 9 |
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; |
Lectures #19-20
Mar. 11-13 |
IV. BENTHIC BIOLOGY: Estuaries
and SUBTIDAL
TOPIC LINK: Guide
to Life under the Antarctic Ice--great photos |
FIELD TRIP!
& Lecture #21
Mar. 22-28
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FIELD TRIP!--Schedule
for the 2009 Trip
Lectures:
V. PELAGIC BIOLOGY-- PLANKTON
Adaptations
TOPIC LINKs: --ORCA FM--live
broadcast of Pacific NW orcas; other orca information |
Lectures #22-23
Mar 30-Apr. 1 |
PELAGIC BIOLOGY: PLANKTON |
Lectures #24-30
Apr. 1-22 |
PELAGIC BIOLOGY-- NEKTON and SEABIRD Adaptations
TOPIC LINKs: Whale/Dolphin
NEWS
--Robotuna!
--Bewley's
Turbulence Research
--Hydrodynamic
Flow Movies--ITS Corp.
--The Pelagic Shark
Research Foundation showing ampullae picture ; shark teeth
picture here
--The
physiology of the icefish
--Echolocation
animation at Office of Naval Research
--Fishbase: A Catalog
of Fish Diversity
--CephBase--information
and pictures of cephalopods of the world
--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!) |
Apr. 15 |
EXAM III
TOPIC LINK: 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 |
Lectures #31-32
Apr. 22-24 |
PELAGIC BIOLOGY--DEEP
PELAGIC:
TOPIC LINKS: Bioluminescence
page - information on deepsea biological light production
__Prof. Yancey's pictures of mesopelagic fishes |
Lectures #33-35
Apr. 27-May 1 |
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) |
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Lectures #36-37
May 4-6 |
IV. BENTHIC BIOLOGY--CORAL REEFS
TOPIC LINKS: --Bacterial
diseases on reefs
--The Reef Relief
Page
--The Reef Education
Network
--NOAA's Reef
Monitoring progr |
Lectures #38-39
May 8-11 |
VI. HUMANS INTERACTIONS
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 16
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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 |
