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Course Materials Spring 2009 - Introduction to Oceanography - GE2500

1_09. Oceanography Syllabus - updated 1/08/09
2_09. Oceanography Laboratory Syllabus - 1/08/09

3_08. "Drowning New Orleans", Scientific American Article 2001


Material for Test 1

4_09. Oceanography - Course organization and introduction - 1/12/09pdf of full power point with ntoes

4_09b. Oceanography – Course organization and introductionpdf of Power point used in class

5_09a. Assignment “The importance of stupidity in scientific research”

5_09b. Paper “The importance of stupidity in scientific research” from Cell Biology

6_09. Ch. 1 - Introduction to Science - Ch. 1 - 2009pdf file
7_09. Ch. 1 - Hist. of Ocean Expl. Origin of Earth, Oceans, & life , Time - 2009pdf file
8_09. Ch.2 Plate Tectonics 2009 -  pdf file

9_09. Ch.3 - Marine Provinces 2009 – pdf file

10_09. Ch.5 - Water and Seawater – Day 1- pdf file

11a_09. Study Guide for Test 1 - 2009 - doc file

11b_09. Answers to Test 1 - 2008 - Word doc file

11c_09. Answers to Test 1 -  2009 - Word doc file

Material for Test 2

12_09. Ch.5 - Water and Seawater – Day 2- pdf file

13_09. Ch.6 - Air Sea Interaction - pdf file

14_09. Ch.7 - Ocean Currents Day 1 - pdf file

15a_09. Study Guide for Test 2 - 2009 - doc file – New for 2009
15b_08, Answers to Test 2 2007 - doc file

15c_08, Answers to Test 2 2008 - doc file

 

Material for Test 3

16a_09. Ch.7 - Ocean Currents Day 2 - pdf file

16b_09. Ch.7 - Ocean Currents Day 3 - pdf file

17_09 Chapter 4 Marine Sediments - pdf file
18_09a. Paper:"Defusing the Global Warming Time Bomb" by James Hansen (Scientific American, March 2004, p. 68-77) - pdf file

18_09b. Review questions for Paper:"Defusing the Global Warming Time Bomb" by James Hansen – doc file
19_09. Lectures on Climate and Climate Change - pdf document

20_09, Answers to Test 3 - 2007 - doc file

21_09. Study Guide for Test 3 – Monday, April 6, 2009 - doc file

 

Last part of course

22_09, Answers to Test 3 - 2009 - doc file

23_09. Syllabus for last part of course after Test 3

24_09. Reading and Study Guide for last part of semester (since Test 3) - doc file

25_09. Chapter 8 - Waves and Wave Processes - pdf document

26_09 Wave Assignment due Monday, April 13

27_09 Chapter 9 & 10 Tides and Coasts: Beaches and Shoreline Processes - pdf file

28_09. Last of Chapter 10, Deltas and Chapter 11, Coastal Oceans –pdf file

27_09. Biology of Oceans – pdf file

28_09. Lessons from Easter Island – Garrison – a similar question will be on the final

 

27_08 Chapter 9 Tides - pdf file
2007 Material

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

Course Materials Spring 2009 - Paleoclimatology - GE5140

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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
4.09 Ruddiman article "Anthropogenic Greenhouse began thousands of years ago"- pdf file
5.09 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