SIO 219: Observational Oceanography Seminar

Winter 2009

Instructor: Lynne Talley, (email: ltalley@ucsd.edu)

Time: Friday 12-12:50

Location: OAR conference room

Seminar URL: http://www-pord.ucsd.edu/~ltalley/sio219

 

Course overview

The observational seminar meets during the academic quarters and is open to all (students, postdocs, researchers, etc). It is a forum for informal discussion of current literature on observational aspects of physical oceanography and for presentation of individual's work in progress. The subject matter for each quarter is determined by the participants, weighted towards the preferences of the enrolled students.

 

New technology

The spring 2008 quarter is devoted to new technology for physical oceanography.  The format begins with a 30 minute presentation.  During discussion we will break into 3-4 smaller groups with each tasked to address specific topics. At the end of class we will meet again as a large group for a general discussion. Enrolled students present the summary, work with the instructor to formulate the questions for discussion, and lead the discussion.

 

Topics that were suggested at the organizational meeting include:  acoustical instruments, optical instruments and methods, ADCP on surface drifters, gliders, Jaffe optics lab tour, satellite salinity, Ocean Sites moorings, research fleet developments, fiber optics as sensors, sensors for chemical measurements, Sontek lab tour, JPL Open House field trip (May 2-3, during spring quarter).

 

Schedules for previous quarters

 

Winter, 2009  schedule

 

Jan. 9: organization

 

Jan. 16 Sylvia Cole and Robert Todd.  Glider lab tour.  Background reading: Rudnick DL, Davis RE, Eriksen CC, Fratantoni DM, Perry MJ, 2004:  "Underwater gliders for ocean research". MARINE TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY  JOURNAL    Volume: 38    Issue: 2    Pages: 73-84

 

Jan. 23 Gabriela Chavez and Kyla Drushka.  Acoustic tomography. Reading: Send et al, 1997, Acoutic Observations of Heat Content Across the Mediterranean Sea. Nature,Vol. 385, pp 615-617

 

Jan. 30 Xue Fan and Kaushik Srinivasan.  Ocean Sites. http://www.oceansites.org/network/index.html

 

Feb. 6 James Holte.  Acoustic observations of precipitation.  Reading:

Nystuen, J.A., M.J. McPhaden, and H.P. Freitag, 2000: Surface Measurements of Precipitation from an Ocean Mooring: The Underwater Acoustic Log from the South China Sea. J. Appl. Meteor., 39, 2182–2197. 

 

Feb. 13 Gordy Stephenson and San Nguyen. Satellite observation of surface salinity.  Reading:

Lagerloef, G., et al., 2008.  The Aquarius/SAC-D mission: Designed to meet the salinityi remote-sensing

challenge. Oceanography, 21, 68-81.

 

Feb. 20 Peter Sutherland. Surface wave measurements with digital stereo imagery.

Reading: Benetazzo, A., 2006.  Measurements of short water waves using stereo matched

image sequences, Coastal Engineering, 53, 1013-1032

 

Feb. 27 Aurelien Ponte: Inverted echo sounders.  Reading: Tracey, K.L., S.D. Howden, and D.R. Watts, 1997: IES Calibration and  Mapping Procedures. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol.,14, 1483–1493. Link to JAOT online version.

 

March 6 Yvonne Firing and Marina Frants: Cabled observatories.

Reading:  Dewey, R., Round, R., Macoun, P., Vervynck, J., and Tunnicliffe, V. 2007. The VENUS Cabled Observatory: Engineering Meets Science on the Seafloor. OCEANS 2007 - MTS/IEEE Vancouver Techno-Ocean. pp7. 10.1109/OCEANS.2007.4449171.

Download: http://venus.uvic.ca/resources/documents/Oceans07paper-070427-015.pdf

 

March 13 Marissa Yates: Jules Jaffe laboratory. 

Reading: website  http://jaffeweb.ucsd.edu/pages/research.html

And this preprint:  Jaffe, J. , 2009.  Is the time right for swarm sensing in the ocean?  Draft manuscript.