Welcome to STPA 35, Society and the Sea, Fall 2009
Classes are 9:30-10:50 on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Peterson Hall 103.
The course TA is: John Sorenson, Graduate Student, Geosciences Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, jsorenso@ucsd.edu . Office hours TBA in Galbraith Hall 173D.
Message from John:
Dear Professor Gibson,
Here are a few bits of information you can add to the course website to make students aware of them:
1) My official office hours for the quarter are Monday 11am-1pm and Tuesday 11:30am-1:30pm. They should email me if they cannot make these hours so that we can set up another time to meet if they would like to.
2) Notebooks with study questions answered up to, but not including, chapter 7 of Gross and Gross should be turned in on the day of the first midterm. I will plan to have the first midterm cover material from chapters 1-6.
3) Pam notified me that there are some cheap copies of Gross and Gross on Amazon.com. I'll send the students an email concerning this, but you may also want to post it to the webpage.
Best Regards,
John
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Tsunami response at Scripps Pier to the earthquake yesterday in Samoa:
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/data_menu.shtml?stn=9410230%20La%20Jolla,%20CA&type=Tide+Data
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. Get a voucher at the education office at the end of the building to the left, south, of the bookstore, and 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 and homework are due either December 4 (Tuesday) or 5 (Thursday), depending on when you present your oral report. STPA 35 Fall 2008 project topics. Presentation schedule.
Alexander Bershadskii's 2008 paper relating global warming to the sunspot index. Bershadskii tutorial lecture at Trieste Turbulent Mixing and Beyond 2009 meeting "Concrete problems of chaotic and clustering time-series analysis".
Some oceanographic websites:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography- SIO.
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 Thursday 25 October 2007 (Bring green scantron, form #882-E).
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 Thursday, Nov. 15 (bring #882-E 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 (Warren Lecture Hall 2205, 9:30 am on Thursday, Dec. 11).
Have a look at the Final Exam from STPA 35 in Fall 2001.
Grades:
Exam 2, Study guide exam 2, Answer key.
Final Grades (ranked and coded).