ATOC 3070, Fall 2012 — Notes & Calendar

ATOC 3070: Introduction to Oceanography

Or, Ocean View from 5430ft. This is an upper-division undergraduate course roughly divided amongst the four interrelated disciplines of oceanography: marine geology, marine chemistry, physical oceanography (i.e. circulation), and marine biology.

You can access the syllabus or class notes and calendar. For comparison, here's Marchitto's version or Lovenduski's version.

Class Meetings and Notes

All meetings will be in CHEM 140, 4-4:50PM on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, unless noted below.

Prof. Fox-Kemper's office hours are Tuesdays 11:30-12:30 and Wednesdays 12:30-1:30 in Ekeley S250B or by appointment (bfk@colorado.edu). TA Chris Conrad's office hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays 5-7PM in STAD 136C or by appointment (christopher.j.conrad@colorado.edu). The LAs for this class hold a Study Center on Mondays through Thursdays from 5 to 7PM in STAD 136C, the Hart Lab, in the Stadium between gates 5 and 6, through the door labeled "ATOC Weather Lab" on the left.

Homework should be submitted by 4:00PM (before class) on Desire2Learn. There you can also ask questions and post comments to a discussion board; questions emailed to the instructors will repost there as well. The calendar of lectures with slides and links is below. It is also available as a Google public calendar called "ATOC/GEOL3070: Intro to Oceanography".

Week Monday Wednesday Friday Reading & Homework
1 8/27: Ocean World 8/29: Earth Structure, Plate Tectonics 8/31: Units, Sig. Figs, Sci. Mthd (Practicum) Due 9/5: Garrison1-3, HW #1
2 Labor Day, No Class 9/5: Continents and Basins 9/7: Sediments Due 9/14: Garrison4-5, HW #2
3 9/10: Paleoceanography 9/12: Water Basics 9/14: Isostasy, Seawater (Practicum) Due 9/21: Garrison6-7, HW #3
4 9/17: Atmospheric Chemistry & Circulation 9/19: Air-Sea-Ice Interactions 9/21: Atm. Gen. Circ. (Lab Expts), Another webpage Due 9/28: Garrison7-8, HW #4
5 9/24: Surface Currents: Ekman 9/26: Deep Currents: Geostrophy 9/28: Deep Currents: Wind Gyre (Practicum) Due 10/5: Garrison9, HW #5
Tomczak & Godfrey Chps 1, 2, 3, 4
6 10/1: Deep Currents: Boundary & ACC 10/3: Deep Currents: Overturning, Water Masses 10/5: Ocean Gen. Circ. (Lab Expt) Due 10/12: Garrison9, HW #6
Tomczak & Godfrey Chps 2, 3, 5
7 10/8: What is a wave? 10/10: Other Waves, El Nino 10/12: El Nino (Practicum) Due 10/19: Garrison10, HW #7
Tomczak & Godfrey Chp: 3
8 10/15: Tides 10/17: Eddies 10/19: Waves & Tides (Practicum) Due 10/26: Garrison11-12, HW #8
Tomczak & Godfrey Chp. 19
9 10/22: Coastal 10/24: Estuaries 10/26: Exam Review Garrison1-12 Due 10/29: Garrison12, No Homework
10 Midterm on Garrison 1-12
Midterm Answer Key
10/31: Ocean Life Energy & Nutrients 11/2: Ocean Life Zones (Practicum) Due 11/9: Garrison13, HW #9
11 11/5: Phytoplankton & Producers 11/7: Zooplankton & Corals, 11/9: Plankton Categorization (Practicum) Due 11/16: Garrison14, HW #10
12 11/12: Marine Invertebrates 11/14: Marine Vertebrates, 11/16: Nekton Categorization (Practicum) Due 11/30: Garrison15, HW #11
13 Fall Break Fall Break Fall Break Fall Break
14 11/26: Marine Communities 11/28: Marine Communities 11/30: Community Mapping (Practicum) Due 12/7: Garrison16, HW #12
15 12/3: Marine Resources & Pollution 12/5: Climate Change Basics 12/7: Debate: Exploitation, Pollution, Ethics (Practicum) Due 12/14: Garrison17-18, HW #13
IPCC2007: Synthesis, Physical Science Summary, Oceanic Climate Change
16 12/10: Climate Change: Ocean Carbon Sink, Ocean Acidification 12/12: Climate Change: Ocean Warming, Ice Melt, MOC Shutdown, and Sea Level Rise Exam Review IPCC2007: Synthesis, Physical Science Summary, Oceanic Climate Change.
Exams: W12/19 (7:30-10:00 AM)
FINAL EXAM

Web Resources and Texts

Course Specific

  1. Syllabus
  2. Reading assignment guidelines
  3. Significant Digits & Units
  4. Glossary

Textbooks

Websites

  1. Tree of Life
  2. Integrated Taxonomic Information System
  3. NASA Earth Observatory Global Maps
  4. To What Degree? NSF Climate Change Report
  5. MBARI (Seafood Watch Cards and Info)
  6. UN Ocean Atlas
  7. Alvin
  8. NextGen Alvin
  9. WHOI Dive & Discover
  10. NOAA Interactive Global Bathymmetry
  11. JPL GPS Plate Motion
  12. LDEO Deep-Sea Sample Repository
  13. Dynamic Periodic Table
  14. Cleon Teunissen's Rotation Physics
  15. GISS Temperature Trends
  16. IPCC Home Site
  17. NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center
  18. IRI ENSO Page
  19. NOAA/PMEL ENSO Page
  20. NOAA Tsunami Page
  21. MBARI Seafood Watch
  22. Nautilus Minerals Seafloor Mining
  23. National Geographic Animals
  24. Killers of Eden
  25. Grad. Schools: CU-ATOC, Brown, Scripps, WHOI, LDEO, UW, OSU, Hawaii, FSU, URI, RSMAS, Find One, Others

Lab Experiments

  1. Hart and Kittelman GFD Lab
  2. John Marshall's (MIT) GFD Lab
  3. National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films

CU Specific Guidelines

  1. Disability Accomodations
  2. Religious Observance
  3. Classroom Behavior, *Note* Prof. Fox-Kemper regards inappropriate cellphone and laptop use as disruptive behavior.
  4. Student Code
  5. Discrimination & Harrassment
  6. Honor Code
  7. Athletics

CU Specific Guidelines

  1. Disability Accomodations
  2. Religious Observance
  3. Classroom Behavior, *Note* Prof. Fox-Kemper regards inappropriate cellphone and laptop use as disruptive behavior.
  4. Student Code
  5. Discrimination & Harrassment
  6. Honor Code
  7. Athletics

Additional Fun Reading

Nonfiction

  1. Cook, The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World, Vol. 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3.
  2. Maury, 1860: The Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology
  3. Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
  4. Darwin, The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs
  5. Sverdrup, New Land: Four Years in the Arctic Region
  6. Nansen, Farthest North, Vol 1 and Vol 2.
  7. M'Clintock, The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas
  8. Arrhenius, Worlds in the making: the evolution of the universe
  9. Lamb, Climate, history and the modern world
  10. Weart, The Discovery of Global Warming
  11. Philander, Our Affair with El Nino
  12. Emanuel, Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes
  13. Schneider, Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate
  14. Volk, CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge

Alternative and Advanced Textbooks

Fiction

  1. Dana, Two Years Before the Mast
  2. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
  3. Homer, The Odyssey
  4. London, The Sea Wolf
  5. Melville, Moby Dick
  6. Stevenson, Treasure Island
  7. Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  8. Nykanen, Primitive
  9. Theroux, Far North
  10. Chrichton, State of Fear

Movies

  1. The Turbulent Ocean
  2. National Committee for Fluid Mechanics
  3. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
  4. The Cove
  5. An Inconvenient Truth
  6. The Day After Tomorrow

Music

  1. Whale Songs - Various Artists
  2. Roy G. Biv - Here Comes Science (Audio + Video Version)
  3. Why Does the Sun Shine? - Here Comes Science
  4. First and Second Law - The Complete Flanders & Swann
  5. Warmer Climate (Bonus Track) - Eyes Open
  6. Sleeping In - Give Up