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OSU Oceanography cont.• Hatfield Marine Science Center • Integrated Ocean Drilling Program • Consortium on Ocean Leadership • National Center for Atmospheric Research • National Academy

GEO/OC 103 Exploring the Deep:

Geography of the World’s

Oceans

Lectures MWF 1:00 - 1:50 p.m.

Oregon State Oceanography

• One of the best in the nation

OSU Oceanography cont.

• Hatfield Marine Science Center

• Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

• Consortium on Ocean Leadership

• National Center for Atmospheric Research

• National Academy of Sciences Ocean Studies Board

• National Oceanic & Atmospheric

Administration or NOAA!

www.coas.oregonstate.edu/marineportal

Required Book

“Exploring the Deep:

GEO/OC 103 Lab Manual”

Available in OSU Bookstore

Each student needs his/her own copy.

• Check course site or catalog for your lab time!

• Learn your TA’s name from schedule, introduce yourself at first meeting

in Lab

Work with real oceanographic data

Work with a geographic information system (GIS), a hot technology!

Lab 9:

Required Field Trip to Oregon Coast

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Bookmark this site!!!

http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/oceans This web site is your syllabus !!!

What Will I Learn?

• NOT very much about whales and fishes!

• Formation of the world’s oceans and ocean basins

• Tsunamis and major earthquakes along the Oregon coast

• Volcanic activity in the Cascades and just off the Oregon coast

• Currents and ocean circulation

What Will I Learn?

• Chemistry of sea water and underwater hot springs

• Waves and tides

• El Niño and La Niña

• Biology of the oceans, from one-celled organisms to whales

• Protecting the oceans and coasts

• Climate change, global warming… and more!

This class may NOT be for you if you can

answer YES to any of the following:

• “I don’t expect to attend class very often.”

• “Large, general education classes should not

require me to study very hard.”

• “I am a graduating senior, am really tired of

school, and need one last, easy science

This class will be GREAT for you if you can

answer YES to many of the following:

• “I’m really interested in the Earth and am

willing to apply myself to learn about it.”

• “I‘m scared of math, but willing to try.”

• “I am willing to attend lectures, and go to

every lab section, because I know that I will learn more if I do.”

• “I’m worried about the future of the

environment and would like to know how to

interpret the claims of scientists.”

• “I appreciate professors who use computer

and communications technology because it

improves the class.”

You should certainly take this class if you can

answer YES to any of the following:

• I’m really worried, concerned, or even angry

about:

– marine pollution…

– global warming, hurricanes, tsunamis…

– over-fishing of important fish species…

– the Earth’s physical resources being over-used…

A Good Learning Environment

• Class attendance is KEY!

• Class attendance for the ENTIRE class period is KEY!

• Please don’t hold conversations or walk out in the middle of class

• This class is not only about oceanography

–Training for life and work AFTER college

• Atmosphere of mutual respect

A Special Note to Athletes

• “It’s from my father,” Manning says, “he instilled a work ethic in

me I think he meant it for academics, not football, because he never pressured me in that direction I just translated it to

football.”

ESPN.com, “The Son Also Rises”, article by Dave Goldberg, Associated

Press

Lecture Format

• *notes provided as text and as PPT

–text that appears on slides w/ SOME

supplements

• curse & blessing

– info all there but don’t space out

– challenge yourself & us w/questions and

discussion

• Different learning styles

• Attend class (on time) and STAY the entire class period

• Read through a lab BEFORE your lab period.

• Save eating for spaces outside the classroom (and clean up)

• Participate If you don’t understand something, ask I can

guarantee…absolutely… that if you don’t understand something, there are a dozen other people in the room, at least, that share that confusion.

• Be respectful of the other people in the room (no phones, no

newspapers, no conversations, careful with laptops !)

• Remember that while you paid tuition for this class, so did the people around you.

• It’s a community.

GEO/OC 103: “Da Rules”

GEO/OC 103: “Da Rules” (cont.)

• In-class work: only gets done that day, we don’t make it up.

• Labs: show up, ask questions, complete the work… If you have a conflict and MUST attend another section, let BOTH teaching assistants know

• Honesty, ethics, cheating and plagiarism (do, do, don’t,

don’t).

• Final exam is already scheduled Plan for it Contact us next week regarding end-of-term conflicts.

• Rules aside…. if you struggle, if things are wrong, tell one of

us or your teaching assistants We’ll work on solutions.

Exams & Grades

Exams & Grades (cont.)

Test 1 (W, Apr 20) = 15% Test 2 (M, May 16) = 15%

Final (W, Jun 8) = 30%

6:00-8:00 p.m.

Labs (inc field trip) = 40%

GEO/OC 103 Grades

Weighted Percentage

95-100 = A90-94 = A-85-89 = B+

80-84 = B75-79 = B-70-74 = C+

65-69 = Cand so on…

Mandatory Field Trip to

Questions??

Dr Dawn Wright

114 Wilkinson Hall

dawn@dusk.geo.orst.edu http://dusk.geo.orst.edu

Who Am I? (cont.)

“Dr Deepsea Dawn”

• “Mountains under the sea”

• Maps of the mountains

• Shape/structure of the mountains

• Things that go “bump” in the dark

• Seafloor-spreading / subduction

• Benthic terrain classification of coral reefs

Who Am I ? (cont.)

• Application and analytical issues in GIS for oceanographic data

Other Interests

• Snoopy, Calvin and Hobbes comics

• Building Legos®

• Competitive cycling

• Animation / “Art House” films

• Silversun Pickups, Arcade Fire, Dandy Warhols, U2, Erasure, Moby, Celtic music

Up until now….

• Undergraduate degree in Geology (Princeton)

• Masters degree in Geophysics (Stanford)

• Ph.D in Geochemistry (Australian National)

• U.S Geological Survey

• OSU faculty since 1977

Main research interests:

✦ Plate tectonics and ocean crustal rocks

✦ Hotspots and flood basalts

✦ Environmental impacts of

catastrophic volcanism

✦ Tectonics and climate change

✦ Scientific Ocean Drilling

Other interests:

✦ Family

- wife, Environmental Policy research at OSU

- son and daughter, both OSU graduates

✦ Soccer coaching

- old farts indoor soccer

- Liverpool; USA in the World Cup 2010

A lot of science is observing

There’s a lot you can tell by observing

and a lot that can be confusing

• Repeated observations:

What would seeing these

two humans tell you about

the species?

• (Would you guess they were

the same species?)

Why do you have to take a science course anyway?

The Ocean is central to understanding:

Climate system

Natural hazards

Species diversity

Food, transportation, security

New sources of renewable energy

Our political system depends on informed citizens

that’s YOU!

Exploration of the oceans Why go there?

✦ John F Kennedy’s speech on space exploration

Questions??

Don’t Let This be You !!!

“I need to talk to you about my grade.”