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		Laboratory Exercises in Oceanography
		for the Ocean-116 class at Glendale Community College
		This 1-unit laboratory course is an introduction to the common laboratory and field practices in the geological and physicochemical aspects of oceanography and seeks to sharpen your skills of conceptualization, hypothesis-formulation and testing, and synthesis and correlation fordrawing inferences.

Oceanography Courses Ocean-115: Oceanography Ocean-116: Oceanography Lab. Poorna Pal, MS MBA Ph.D. Professor of Geology Glendale Community College Phone: (818)240-1000 x 5517 ppal@glendale.edu Office: CS-262 Office Hours (Spring 2004): Mon: 5-6 PM on days of TV class Tues & Ths: 2-4 PM, CS-262 Wed: 5-6.30 PM, CS-262

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The Ocean Current PowerPoint Ocean Circulation PDF

Winter 2006 Schedule for Exercises, Tests and Cruise The class and grading policies Selected Exercises for online access

Click here to download the class schedule as a PDF document Click on the appropriate box below to download the exercise

 

Lab Text:   Exploring the Ocean Environment - GIS Investigations for the Earth Sciences (with CD-ROM)   by Michelle K. Hall, C. Scott Walker,  Jennifer A. Weeks & Larry P. Kendall ISBN: 0534423507 (Brookscole, 2005)   Any required laboratory handouts will be provided. Students do need to bring their own pencils and calculators, however.

Summer 2006:

Ocean-116 (Laboratory Exercises in Oceanography), Course #5090 (MTW, 3²⁵-6²⁵ PM)

 

Activity 1:
	Exercises (lab-book and/or online) and/or experiments on marine charts and navigation, bathymetry and physiography of the ocean floor, sea-floor spreading and plate tectonics, seismic depth-charts
	Lab-Test 1:
Activity 2:
	Exercises (lab-book and/or online) on seawater temperature, salinity and related physical properties, solar radiation and heat balance, water masses and the Temperature-Salinity diagrams, ocean currents, waves and tides
	Lab-Test 2:
Activity 3:
	Measuring seawater salinity and related physical properties, velocities of shallow and deepwater waves, and exercises (lab-book and/or online) on the coastal processes and environment, primary and secondary productivity, global warming and related issues
	Lab-Test 3:
Activity 4:	Observational Cruise aboard RV VANTUNA (1230:430 PM)
The class and grading policies DEADLINES: Jan 13 for ADD/DROP-WITHOUT-W, Feb 3 to DROP WITH AUTOMATIC ‘W’ (dropping after this means an automatic ‘F’) (DROPPING OUT OF THE COURSE, WITH OR WITHOUT A “W”, IS THE STUDENT’S RESPONSIBILITY) As for overall grading (A > 90% > B > 80% > C > 70% > F) in the course, performance in best 3 of the 4 Activities will account for 75% of the class grade;  the remaining 25% of the grade will be for attendance, class performance, effective participation in and completion of the individual exercises and activities. Any antisocial and/or disruptive behavior, including cheating, and/or missing 5 or more of the laboratory sessions will automatically invite the letter grade “F”.

 

Selected online and/or downloadable exercises
Locating Yourself and Finding Your Way Around: The Latitude and Longitude Exercise
Latitude and Longitude (also Hammond)     Latitude/Longitude Distance Calculation	Latitude/Longitude Conversion
Exercise on Bathymetric Mapping and Physiography of the Ocean Floor Exercise on comparing the heat capacities of soil and water Plate tectonics exercise Seafloor spread exercise	Click here to access Density Calculator for Seawater   Click here to access the graph to plot temperature versus salinity

Global warming and sea level rise Tsunamis and Ocean Depths Global warming and changes in sea-level, seawater salinity and coastline Exercise on the effect of temperature on the density of water
Oceanic Circulation Exercise	http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/EPAC_Track_chart.pdf http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/AT_Track_chart.pdf http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/AT_Track_chart2.pdf
Water currents exercise
Tides Exercise

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