Welcome to STPA 35, Society and the Sea, Fall 2005
Classes are 9:30-10:50 on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Warren Lecture Hall 2111.
The course outline is given here.
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.
If you can write a shorter report that gets across your findings
this is fine. 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 29 or December
1, depending on when you present your oral report. Your notebook
is due at the same time (just before you give your talk).
Presentation schedule
Ashley Medin is TA for the course, and will be arranging office hours (probably Mondays) for discussion of your term projects, questions about the exams, homework, etc. Her office is in 3206 Revelle (large wooden building to the right of the bridge going down the hill to SIO on La Jolla Shores Drive). emedin@ucsd.edu
Practice
Exam 1 for October 18,
2005
Practice
Exam 2 for November 8,
2005
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 19 October 2004.
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. 8 (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 Thurs. December 8, 8-11, WLH 2111.
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:
Final