Welcome to STPA 35, Society and the Sea, Fall 2006
Classes are 9:30-10:50 on Tuesdays and Thursdays in CSB 002.
Course outline (HTML)
The course TA is: Jenny Vogel, SIO Marine Biology, 330 Vaughan Hall, jvogel@ucsd.edu, 858 534-4957. Office hours are now Mondays at 1-3 in Galbraith Hall 173c, but can be split if some other time would be more convenient for some students.
Guided beach walk November 8 at 1pm starting at the end of the SIO pier.
New room CSB 002 starting Thursday, Oct. 12!
The class
list has been given to the educational office of the Birch Aquarium (entrance at light to west from Torrey
Pines southwest of campus) . As a member of STPA 35 you can visit
free all quarter at any time. Bring a picture ID.
Please write a clear, scientific
report of your term project. Try not to exceed about 10 pages.
A Hypertext
Writing Guide given by M. Plonsky, PhD, of the University
of Wisconsin, Stevens Point may be helpful. The written report is due either November 28 or 30, depending on when you present your oral report. Your notebook
is due at the same time (just before you give your talk).
Presentation schedule
Practice
Exam 1 for October 17,
2006
Practice
Exam 2 for November 7,
2006
Some oceanographic websites:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography- SIO.
Fundamentals of oceanography website
, links
Schedule for previous year (similar this year):
1. The origins
of oceanography, Earth and its ocean, Appendices (Conversion factors,
Useful data about Earth and its ocean, Presenting data, Careers
in oceanography, Classification of marine organisms, People in
oceanography, Geological time scale, Glossary). Lectures
Week 1.
Captain Cook was a key figure in pioneering methods of navigation and survival for long sea voyages.
2. Lectures Week 2 cover plate tektonics and seawater properties.
3. Lectures Week 3 cover ocean sediments and the earth's atmosphere.
4. Lectures Week 4. Exam 1 is Tuesday 17 October 2006.
5. Lectures Week 5. Ocean
currents and ocean waves this week.
6. Lectures Week 6. (plus review questions Exam 2)
7. Lectures Week 7. Exam 2 Tuesday, Nov. 7 (bring scantron form, #2 pencil, 1 page abstract of your term project).
8. Lectures Week 8. Chapters 13 and 14.
9. Lectures Week 9.
10. Oral presentations of term project talks all this week. Lectures Week 10.
11. Final Exam Thursday. December 7, 8-11, CSB 002.
Messages from Jenny on review sessions and Field Trip #2:
My last normal office hours will be Monday, November 27, 1-3pm, Galbraith
173C.
The review session for the final exam will be Tuesday, December 5, 2-4pm
in Galbraith 174. Bring questions.
Field trip #2: tour through the core locker/SIO geological collection
November 28, 1-2pm; We'll meet in the parking lot of the Deep Sea Drilling
Program (DSDP) Building. There is a limit to how many students can
participate, so please email me if you'd like to go.
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Please bring one or two green 881-ES or 882-E scantron forms and a #2 pencil. The entire course will be covered, but emphasis will be on the Chapters not previously tested (13-15) plus student presentations. Expect up to 100 questions.
Have a look at the Final Exam from STPA 35 in Fall 2001.
Grades: