ATOC 6020, Fall 2010 — 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, and reading.

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". Add to Google Calendar.

ATOC6020 Fall 2010 weekly schedule
Week	Speaker	Links & Presentation Slides	Reading & Writeup
1	8/23: Organizational Meeting	Syllabus
2	8/30: Baylor Fox-Kemper	Scientific Lessons from Deepwater Horizon	Writeup 1 Due 9/10
3	9/7: Labor Day	No Class
4	9/13: No Seminar	No Class
5	9/20: Bill Lewis, CU-CIRES	Global Primary Production of Lakes	Writeup 2 Due 9/24
6	9/27: John Fasullo, NCAR	Tracking Earth's Energy	Writeup 3 Due 10/1
7	10/4: Amy Wagner, NOAA Paleoclimate	8.2 ka Abrupt Climate Change	Writeup 4 Due 10/8
8	10/11: Steve Nerem, CU, CCAR	Sea Level Observations	Writeup 5 Due 10/15
9	10/18: Colm Sweeney, CIRES-NOAA	What does ¹⁴C of CO₂ tell us about the change in the Southern Ocean carbon sink?	Writeup 6 Due 10/22
10	10/25: Jim McWilliams, UCLA	Estimating Eddy Buoyancy Fluxes in Eastern-Boundary Upwelling Systems	Writeup 7 Due 10/29
11	11/1: Dan Jones, CSU	The Response of the Southern Ocean to Changing Atmospheric Winds	Writeup 8 Due 11/6
12	11/8: Anne Willem Omta, MIT	A simple theory for ocean carbonate chemistry	Writeup 9 Due 11/12
13	11/15: Matthew Long, NCAR	Mechanisms generating spatial variability in Ross Sea biogeochemical fields	Writeup 10 Due 11/19
14	11/22: Fall Break	Fall Break	Fall Break
15	11/29: James Syvitski, CU	Understudied Problems in Oceanography — a Seafloor Perspective	Writeup 11 Due 12/3
16	12/6: AGU Practice Talks M. Brakebusch, T. Jones	No Writeup