| Introduction to Oceanography 10 Online OCEAN10 — Fall 2008 Cybersession Online Class section #62176 |
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Registered students
may login beginning Monday, October 20, 2008. Click
on the Blackboard Learning System button above and click on "Cabrillo College". Follow the instructions for registered students to Click Here to look up your Blackboard account user name and password.
* * * Remember, access will be available beginning 10/20/08 * * *
IMPORTANT: Registered students MUST attend all lab meetings. on Tuesdays from 3:50 - 7:25PM in Room 705 on the Aptos Campus. Failure to attend the first lab meeting on Tuesday October 21st 2008 from 3:50 - 7:25PM in Room 705 may result in your being dropped from the course.
NOTE: Students who wish to add after registration has closed must follow this procedure:
Email your instructor and include the following information:
First and Last Name
Student ID # or SS #
Course name and section number (e.g. Ocean 10, section# 62176)
IMPORTANT: Once the semester begins: All email MUST be done via the Blackboard course hub. No email replies will be given to emails outside the Blackboard Ocean10 course hub.
Course Information
Introduction to Oceanography 10 Online is a transferable hybrid online - discussion - lab course presenting some of the more important phenomena in oceanography; geological, chemical, and physical relationships.
Ocean Science
The science of Oceanography involves many different disciplines such as: Math, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Biology, Geography & Astronomy. The more background you have in each of these areas the better, however there are no prerequisites for this course. I do recommended that you have recently completed a course in elementary algebra such as MATH 154 here at Cabrillo. We will be studying the following branches of Oceanography and most of the associated topics.
- Geological Oceanography: Sea Floor Topography, Sea Floor Spreading / Plate Tectonics / Ocean Basin Evolution, Geophysics, Marine Sediments, The Coastal Environment
- Chemical Oceanography: Origin of Seawater, Salinity, Trace Elements, Nutrients, Dissolved Gases, Inorganic Precipitates
- Physical Oceanography: The Movement of Seawater, Currents, Waves, Tides, Temperature, Density, Tropical Cyclones.
The fourth branch: Biological Oceanography, we will not be studying in this condensed CyberSession format of the course. If you would like to learn about biological oceanography I recommend that you take marine biology (BIO 11B) offered each semester here at Cabrillo.
Recommended Preparation
I recommend that you have recently completed a course in elementary algebra such as MATH 154 here at Cabrillo.
Topics
What we will cover:
| Course Introduction and Overview; The Water Planet | ||
| Sea Floor Spreading: The Origin of Ocean Basins | ||
| Bathymetry and Acoustical Sounding | ||
| Marine Sediments | ||
| Coasts, Beaches and Estuaries | ||
| Properties of Water & Seawater Chemistry | ||
| Winds, Currents and Ocean Circulation | ||
| Waves and Tides | ||
On-campus labs: Required
Please bring colored pencils, pencil and eraser, lab workbook, and calculators to all labs.
Everyone enrolled is required to complete all lab exercises and projects and take all quizzes (including those given in lab and those given online). No make-up quizzes, midterm or final will be given. All labs are on Tuessdays from 3:50 - 7:25 PM at Cabrillo College in room 705. The lab schedule is listed below.
| Lab # | DATE | TOPIC |
| 1 | 10/21 | Unit Conversions; Earthquake Plots |
| 2 | 10/28 | Bathymetry and Acoustical Sounding |
| 3 | 11/4 | Nautical Charts |
| 4 | 11/11 | Veteran's Day--College Closed--NO CLASS |
| 5 | 11/18 | Plate Tectonics (begin) Nautical Charts Quiz (Quiz#2) |
| 6 | 11/25 | Beach Sands |
| 7 | 12/2 | Mystery Beach and Waves (begin): Beach Sand (Quiz#4) |
| 8 | 12/9 | Waves (continued) and Tides |
| 9 | 12/16 | Final Exam in Lab: Tues. Dec. 16, 3:50-7:25 PM |
Required Textbook or Online Library
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Both required books are available at the Cabrillo College bookstore.
- Sverdrup, K. A., et al, 2006: An Introduction To The World's Oceans, McGraw-Hill Publishers, Ninth Edition
- Schwartz, D., 2006: Introduction To Oceanography Lab Workbook,Fourth Edition
Hardware and Software Requirements
You will need regular access to a computer with a CD drive and one of the following browsers.
- Mozilla Firefox, 1.0.7
- Internet Explorer 5.0 +
- Safari 1.2
The QuickTime video plug-in is used
Adobe Acrobat reader is used to open PDF files
Instructor Information
Deirdre C. Scholar M.S.
Geology - Oceanography Instructor
My contact information.
**Once the semester begins: All email MUST be done via the Blackboard course hub. No email replies will be given to emails outside the Blackboard Ocean10 course hub.
Office:705C
Office hours: Fall 2008
Tues. 12:00 - 12:40 PM
Thurs. 12:00-12:40 PM and 3:40 - 4:00 PM
ONLINE Office hours: Fall 2008
Mondays 8:45 - 9:55PM in Blackboard Ocean 10 course hub.