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SCHEDULE
Week 1
- January 6: Introduction. Oceans and climate. Heat input to the Earth and
the greenhouse effect. (Gille)
- January 8: Air-sea exchange: momentum, heat and gas across the air-sea interface. (Gille)
- January 10: Density of sea water; steric warming; sea level rise (Gille)
Week 2
- January 13: Origins. How to build an ocean. (Andersson)
- January 15: Origins. How to build an ocean. (Andersson)
- January 17: Origins. How to build an ocean. (Andersson)
Week 3
- January 20: Holiday
- January 22: Tides and currents (Gille)
- January 24: Metabolic pathways; carbon cycle (Andersson)
Week 4
- January 27: Carbon cycle (Andersson)
- January 29: Developing hypotheses: What do we expect to find in tide pools? (Gille/Andersson)
- January 31: Field trip to La Jolla Shores tide pools (Andersson/Gille)
Week 5
- February 3: Analysis: What did we measure in the tide pools? (Gille)
- February 5: Analysis: More science from the tide pools (Andersson)
- February 7: Catch up/midterm review (Gille/Andersson)
Week 6
- February 10: Midterm (Gille)
- February 12: Changing ocean circulation in a changing climate (Gille)
- February 14: Coastal upwelling and the California Current (Gille)
Week 7
- February 17: Holiday
- February 19: Field trip term paper due Upwelling and California Current processes (Andersson).
- February 21: Upwelling (Gille).
Week 8
- February 24: Acidification (Andersson).
- February 26: Acidification (Andersson).
- February 28: Acidification (Andersson).
Week 9
- March 3: High-Nutrient Low Chlorophyll systems (Gille).
- March 5: High-Nutriend Low Chlorophyll systems (Gille).
- March 7: El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (Gille).
Week 10
- March 10: Chemistry in the tropics and coral
reefs (Andersson).
- March 12: Group presentations (Gille/Andersson).
- March 14: Group presentations (Gille/Andersson).
Final Exam
- March 17: 3:00-5:59 pm, location TBD
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