ATOC 6020, Fall 2009 — Notes & Calendar

ATOC 6020: Oceanography Seminar

Or, The Ocean Left Colorado 60 Million Years Ago, but Oceanography Didn't! This is a weekly seminar covering topics in oceanography and ocean-focused climate science. Presentations will feature campus and Boulder scientists on notable developments in ocean science. University of Colorado graduate students can enroll in the ATOC 6020 seminar for 1 credit per semester.

Participation is not limited to enrolled students. All interested students (graduate and undergraduate), faculty, researchers, Boulder-area oceanographers, visitors, and alumni are encouraged to attend and present.

You can access the syllabus, class notes and calendar, reading, and class files.

Class Meetings and Notes

All meetings will be in Duane E126 at 4PM on Mondays, unless noted

Registered students are required to submit a writeup of each talk to me by Friday at 7PM on CULearn. The writeups should include 4 sections: summary, strengths, weaknesses, and brainstorming.

In CULearn you can also view other students' writeups and post comments to a discussion board.

The calendar of talks is below; it is also available as a public Google Calendar called "ATOC6020: Oceanography Seminar".

ATOC6020 Fall 2009 weekly schedule
Week Speaker Links & Presentation Slides Reading & Writeup
18/24: Organizational MeetingSyllabus
28/31: Baylor Fox-KemperIs Oceanography Science? Language, Culture, and Standards of ProofBernard & Killworth, 1973
Writeup 1 Due 9/11
39/7: Labor DayNo Class
49/14: Mark Serreze, NSIDCEnvironmental impacts of a shrinking Arctic sea ice coverWriteup 2 Due 9/18
59/21: Joanie Kleypas, NCARWhat's all this fuss (fizz?) about ocean acidification?Writeup 3 Due 9/25
Doney et al 09
69/28: Taka Ito, Colorado State U.What can oxygen tell us about climate change in the oceans?Ito & Deutsch, 09, Writeup 4 Due 10/2
710/5: Bill Emery, ASEN & ATOCIn situ and satellite measurements of Sea Surface TemperatureWriteup 5 Due 10/9
810/12: Nikki Lovenduski, NEW CU-ATOC FacultyThe response of Southern Ocean Carbon Dioxide Fluxes to Increased Wind Stress: A Modeling StudyWriteup 6 Due 10/16
910/19: Matt Newman, CIRESEmpirical climate models of coupled tropical atmosphere-ocean dynamicsWriteup 7 Due 10/23
1010/26: Keith Julien, CU-APPMThe Nonhydrostatic Quasi-Geostrophic EquationsWriteup 8 Due 10/30
1111/2: Lakshmi Kantha, CU-ASENUpper Ocean Waves and ProcessesWriteup 9 Due 11/6
1211/9: Keith Lindsay, NCARIntroduction to Marine Ecosystem ModelingWriteup 10 Due 11/13
1311/16: Chris Fairall, NOAA & CIRESAir-sea fluxes — light winds to hurricanesWriteup 11 Due 11/20
1411/23: Fall BreakFall BreakFall Break
1511/30: De-Zheng Sun, CIRESUnderstanding the Impact of Global Warming on the Level of ENSO ActivityWriteup 12 Due 12/4
1612/7: ATOC Poster Session in UMCNo ClassNo Writeup