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Course Materials Spring 2007 - Introduction to Oceanography - GE2500

1_08. Oceanography Syllabus - updated 1/24/08
2_08.
"Drowning New Orleans", Scientific American Article 2001
3_08.
Oceanography Laboratory Syllabus - 1/08/08

Material for Test 1

4_08. Oceanography - Course organization and Ch. 1 - 1/17/06

5_08. Contours & Bathymetry Assignment from Thurman/Savin Lab Manual - Due Friday, Feb. 1

6_08. Ch. 1 - Introduction to Science - Ch. 1 - 2008
7_08. Ch. 1 - Hist. of Ocean Expl., Origin of Earth, Oceans, & life , Time - 2008pdf file
8_08. Ch.2 Plate Tectonics 2008 -  pdf file

9a_08. Study Guide for Test 1 - 2008 - doc file
9b_08. Example 2006 Test 1 with answers - Word doc file
9c_08. Answers to Test 1 - 2007 - Word doc file

9d_08. Answers to Test 1 with answers - 2008 - Word doc file

Material for Test 2

10_08. Ch.3 - Marine Provinces - pdf

11_08. Ch.5 - Water and Seawater - pdf file
11_08. Ch.6 - Air Sea Interaction - pdf file (new2/27/08)

12_08 “Science News” Article on Weird Water at high Pressures

13a_08. Study Guide for Test 2 - 2008 - doc file

13b_08. Example Test 2 from 2006 - Word doc file With Answers
13c_08, Answers to Test 2 2007 - doc file

13d_08, Answers to Test 2 2008 - doc file

 

Material for Test 3

14_08. Ch.7 - Ocean Currents - pdf file

15_08 Assignment regarding “Desolation Island” by O’Brien quotes – Due March 26
16_08 Chapter 4 Marine Sediments - pdf file –

17a_08 Assignment “The Next Ocean” Science News Article – Due April 2, 2008 – MS Word document

17b_08 Article “The Next Ocean” Science News March 15, 2008, pp. 170 – 173 – pdf file
17c_08. Paper:"Defusing the Global Warming Time Bomb" by James Hansen (Scientific American, March 2004, p. 68-77) - pdf file
18_08. Lectures on Climate and Climate Change - pdf document

19_08. Study Guide for Test 3 - April 7, 2008 - doc file

 

Last part of course

20_08. Reading and Study Guide for last part of semester (since Test 3) 4/18/07 - doc file
21_08. Suggested Review topics for final (material before Test 3) - doc fileNEW APRIL 23!

22_08. Chapter 8 - Waves and Wave Processes - pdf document

23_08 Chapter 9 Tides - pdf file

24_08 Chapter 10 Coasts: Beaches and Shoreline Processes - pdf file
25_08. Last of Chapter 10, Deltas and Chapter 11, Coastal Oceans –pdf file NEW APRIL 23!

26-08. Biology of Oceans – pdf file NEW APRIL 23!


2007 Material
18p_05.
Nature paper "Confronting the Coral Reef Crisis" - pdf file

Course Materials Spring 2007 - Paleoclimatology - GE5140

1_07. Paleoclimatology Syllabus - 1/22/07
1b_07 Schedule for April Presentations - doc file
2.07 Sue's presentation (with White background to save ink) on Anthropogenic Greenhouse began thousands of years ago paper and Climate for the last millenium - pdf file
3.07 Sue's presentation (on blue background for easy reading) on Anthropogenic Greenhouse began thousands of years ago paper and Climate for the last millenium - pdf file
4.07 Ruddiman article "Anthropogenic Greenhouse began thousands of years ago"- pdf file
5.07 Article by Jones and Mann "Climate over the past millenium" 2004, Geophysical Reviews - pdf file

Course Materials Fall 2007 - Geomorphology - GE4100/GE5100

1_07. GE4100/updated GE5100 Syllabus 10/01/07
2_07.
Ch. 4 Cenozoic Climate Change from Bloom: "Geomorphology A Systematic Analysis of Late Cenozoic Landforms" - pdf file
3_07. Lab 9/11/07 Physiographic Provinces - Word document
4_07. Climate Lectures - pdf (revised 9/17/07)
5_07. Tides - pdf
6_07.
Ch. 13 - Coasts and Beaches - pdf
7_07.
Answers for the Test 1
8_07.
Instructions for the research paper
9_07. Ch. 9 - Glacier Fundamentals 1, Introduction, MassBalance, Heat - pdf
10_07.
Ch. 9 - Glacier Fundamentals 2 Glacial Flow - pdf
11_07.
Ch. 9 - Glacier Features and Processes - pdf
12_07.
Ch. 10 - Glacier Erosional Processes and Landforms - pdf
13_07.
Ch. 10 - Glacier Meltwater and Meltwater erosion - pdf
14_07.
Ch. 10 - Glacier Deposits - Outwash and 06 Landslide photos - pdf
15_07.
Ch. 10 - Glacier Deposits - Till and Moraines - pdf
16_07.
Some Glacial terms that you should know - doc file

17_07. Lecture on Missoula floods - pdf
18_07. Lectures on isostatic rebound and lake levels - pdf
19_07.
Ch. 11 - Periglacial Processes and Products including Permafrost - pdf
20_07.
Ch.3 and beginniner of Ch. 4 Chemical and Physical Weathering with Introduction to clays - pdf file
21_07.
End of Ch. 4 - Slope Processes and Mass movement - pdf file
22_07. Ch.5 Drainage Basins and Flood Frequency and Magnitude - pdf file
23_07.
Reading for Test 3 Revised - Word File
24_07. Review for Test 3 - Word File
25_07. Schedule for Talks and Lectures, Last two weeks - Word file

22_07.
Ch.6 & 7 Fluvial Processes and Landforms - pdf file


9.06 Answers for the Test 2