TOPIC

GRADING

% of grade

DATE

Introduction/Overview

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I) Environmental Factors; II) Life; III) Ecology

Exam I

30%

Feb. 15

** FIELD TRIP ($150 fee)

REPORTS

[separate course]

Mar. 15-21

IV) Benthic Biology: Inter-, Subtidal; Coral Reefs; Deep Sea

Exam II

32%

Apr. 9

V) Pelagic Biology ; VI) Human Interactions

FINAL EXAM

38%

May 13

Lecture #1

Jan. 14

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

TOPIC LINKS: Overfishing
--The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)
--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.

Lectures #2-3

Jan. 16-18

I. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS:
__A. TECTONIC: plate boundaries and hot spots; seamounts

TOPIC LINKS: --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!
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) reports 1998 underwater eruption off Washington/Oregon
--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. 18-25

I. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS:
__B. SURFACES: 1. Rock and 2. Sediments--Lithogenous, Biogenous;
____& 3. Hydrogenous--hydrothermal metal sulfides, manganese nodules, methane hydrates
__C. MOVEMENTS: 1. Waves 2. Currents
__D. Other PHYSICAL Factors: 1. Light 2. Temperature; 3. Density; 4. Pressure

TOPIC LINKS:--NeMO's pictures of hydrothermal (hydrogenous) formations
--Wave animation machine at PBS Savage Seas
--Coriolis effect animations
--Tsunami animation at Office of Naval Research and at PBS Savage Earth
--The Manganese nodule web site
--Tide Calculator for US/Canadian cities
--Animation of Gulf Stream and temperature
--The Great Globe Gallery--lots of images of earth physical features including salinity, temperature.
--Hadley cells and wind belts and an animation of the cells
--Thermohaline currents animation
--The Digital Earth--plot your own detailed maps!

Lectures 6-7
Jan. 28-30

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

Lectures #8-9

Feb. 1-4

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 marine ecology, biogeochemistry
--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. 4-6

III. ORGANISMAL Biology/ Marine LIFE--Kingdoms; Archaea; Viruses, etc
__TROPHIC LEVELS:
____PRODUCERS: Basic metabolic features of photo- and chemosynthesizers
____DECOMPOSERS
____CONSUMERS: PROTISTA, ANIMALS
__ 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

Lectures #11-13

Feb. 8-13

TOPIC LINKs:
--Snapping Shrimp: the biophysics of a unique ambush technique
--Cone shells and their toxins with videos

FEB. 15

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 #14-17
Feb. 20-27

IV. BENTHIC BIOLOGY: INTERTIDAL

TOPIC LINK: --Exploring Intertidal Organisms: pictures and descriptions of representative phyla at OceanLink

Lectures #18-21
Feb 29-Mar. 7

IV. BENTHIC BIOLOGY: Estuaries and SUBTIDAL

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

FIELD TRIP!
& Lecture #22
Mar. 15-21

FIELD TRIP!--Schedule for the 2008 Trip
Lectures:
V. PELAGIC BIOLOGY-- PLANKTON Adaptations

TOPIC LINKs: --Red Tides
--Shards of Bacteria fill the seas
--ORCA FM--live broadcast of Pacific NW orcas; other orca information

Lectures #23-31

Mar. 24-Apr. 14

V. PELAGIC BIOLOGY--PLANKTON; 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. 9

EXAM II through DIVING (Apr. 2 or 4)

Lectures #31-33

Apr. 14-18

IV. BENTHIC BIOLOGY--CORAL REEFS

TOPIC LINKS: --U.S. Govt site on Coral Reef Organisms: lots of great links!
--Great Barrier Reef endangered
--Bacterial diseases on reefs
--The Reef Relief Page
--The Reef Education Network
--NOAA's Reef Monitoring program

Lectures #33-36
Apr. 18-25

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 37-38

Apr. 28-30

V. PELAGIC BIOLOGY--DEEP PELAGIC:

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

Lectures #39-40

May 2-5

VI. HUMANS INTERACTIONS: Global Change; Guest lecture on FISHERIES

TOPIC LINKS:
-- 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

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