SIO 219: "Observational" Oceanography Seminar

Topic:Presenting Your Work in Progress

Instructor: Sarah Gille
Location: OAR Conference Room.
Time: Fridays, 12:00-1:00

Overview: The observational seminar this quarter will focus on giving an effective presentation of work in progress. Students will prepare a poster, 15-minute conference talk, or a full seminar and will offer constructive comments for their peers. Students are particularly encouraged to present in a way that they have not previously tried (i.e. extend a conference talk to make a seminar, or revamp a poster as a talk.) Though students are strongly urged to formally register for the class, collegial participation by interested post-docs and researchers/faculty is highly welcome.

This SIO 219 seminar is a one-unit course that is offered S/U only.

Schedule

Suggested reading (aimed at thinking about what goes in a talk):

• AGU Fall Meeting Oral Session Presenter Guidelines
• Schoeberl, M. and B. Toon, Ten Secrets to Giving a Good Scientific Talk. (Note that the origins of this web page are not identified, but it appears to pre-date the full rollout of powerpoint. The advice is nonetheless useful.)

and

Sam Billheimer, Near-cessation of Mode Water formation in the western North Atlantic in the warm winter of 2011-2012, observed using profiling floats (poster preview) abstract

Suggested reading:

• Gordon, H., 1989. Can the Lambert-Beer law be applied to the diffuse attenuations coefficient of Ocean Water? Limnol. Oceanogr. 34(8), 1389-1409.
• Bricaud, A., Morel, A., Babin, M., Allali, K. and H. Claustre, 1998. Variations of light absorption by suspended particles with the chlorophyll a concentration in oceanic (Case 1) waters : analysis and implications for bio-optical models. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 31,033-31,044.

Suggested reading:

• Gill, A. E. and P. P. Niiler, 1973. The theory of the seasonal variability in the ocean, Deep-Sea Res., 20, 141-177.

Katsuya Toyama (post-doc, Tohoku University), "Annual subduction rate of the North Pacific and its interannual variation"

Mai Ishikawa, Kaori Hikobe, Haruka Nakano and Yu Shibata, "Summary of our cruise KH-12-5"

Xue Fan (grad student, SIO), "Observations of Irminger Sea Anticyclonic Eddies"

Andrew Delman (grad student, SIO), "Java and Sumatra upwelling: Its variability and relationship to the Indian Ocean Dipole Mode"

Nov 2: Caitlin Whalen, Small-Scale Turbulent Mixing from the Argo Floats' Perspective (seminar length presentation)

Suggested reading:

• Whalen, C. B., L. D. Talley, and J. A. MacKinnon, 2012. Spatial and temporal variability of global ocean mixing inferred from Argo profiles, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L18612, doi:10.1029/2012GL053196.

Suggested reading:

• Willis, J. K. and L.-L. Fu, 2008. Combining altimeter and subsurface float data to estimate the time-averaged circulation in the upper ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 113, C12017, doi:10.1029/2007JC004690.
Gille, et al., 2012. The diapycnal and isopycnal mixing experiment: a first assessment. CLIVAR Exchanges, No.58 (Vol 17 No.1), 46-48.

Suggested reading:

• Sverdrup, H. U., 1953. On conditions for the vernal blooming of phytoplankton, Journal du Conseil International pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, 18, 287-295.
• Behrenfeld, M. J., 2010. Abandoning Sverdrup's critical depth hypothesis on phytoplankton blooms, Ecology, 91, 977-989.
• Taylor, J. R. and R. Ferrari, 2011. Shutdown of turbulent convection as a new criterion for the onset of spring phytoplankton blooms, Limnol. Oceanogr, 56, 2293-2307.

• Carranza, M. M. and S. T. Gille, Physical processes governing summer Chl-a in the Southern Ocean
• Llanillo, P. J., J. L. Pelegri, L. Stramma, and J. Karstensen
• Ludka, B. C., R. T. Guza, J. E. McNinch, W. O'Reilly, Equilibrium Beach Profiles on the East and West U.S. Coasts
• Whalen, C, L. D. Talley, and J. A MacKinnon, Spatial and temporal patterns of the ocean's turbulent mixing from Argo profiles.
• Giglio, D., D. H. Roemmich, and P. Sutton, Understanding the annual cycle of subsurface ocean temperature and salinity using Argo's first million profiles.

• MPOWIR