ATOC 6020, Fall 2009 — Notes & Calendar
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 |
| 1 | 8/24: Organizational Meeting | Syllabus | |
| 2 | 8/31: Baylor Fox-Kemper | Is Oceanography Science? Language, Culture, and Standards of Proof | Bernard & Killworth, 1973 Writeup 1 Due 9/11 |
| 3 | 9/7: Labor Day | No Class | |
| 4 | 9/14: Mark Serreze, NSIDC | Environmental impacts of a shrinking Arctic sea ice cover | Writeup 2 Due 9/18 |
| 5 | 9/21: Joanie Kleypas, NCAR | What's all this fuss (fizz?) about ocean acidification? | Writeup 3 Due 9/25 Doney et al 09 |
| 6 | 9/28: Taka Ito, Colorado State U. | What can oxygen tell us about climate change in the oceans? | Ito & Deutsch, 09, Writeup 4 Due 10/2 |
| 7 | 10/5: Bill Emery, ASEN & ATOC | In situ and satellite measurements of Sea Surface Temperature | Writeup 5 Due 10/9 |
| 8 | 10/12: Nikki Lovenduski, NEW CU-ATOC Faculty | The response of Southern Ocean Carbon Dioxide Fluxes to Increased Wind Stress: A Modeling Study | Writeup 6 Due 10/16 |
| 9 | 10/19: Matt Newman, CIRES | Empirical climate models of coupled tropical atmosphere-ocean dynamics | Writeup 7 Due 10/23 |
| 10 | 10/26: Keith Julien, CU-APPM | The Nonhydrostatic Quasi-Geostrophic Equations | Writeup 8 Due 10/30 |
| 11 | 11/2: Lakshmi Kantha, CU-ASEN | Upper Ocean Waves and Processes | Writeup 9 Due 11/6 |
| 12 | 11/9: Keith Lindsay, NCAR | Introduction to Marine Ecosystem Modeling | Writeup 10 Due 11/13 |
| 13 | 11/16: Chris Fairall, NOAA & CIRES | Air-sea fluxes — light winds to hurricanes | Writeup 11 Due 11/20 |
| 14 | 11/23: Fall Break | Fall Break | Fall Break |
| 15 | 11/30: De-Zheng Sun, CIRES | Understanding the Impact of Global Warming on the Level of ENSO Activity | Writeup 12 Due 12/4 |
| 16 | 12/7: ATOC Poster Session in UMC | No Class | No Writeup |