Oceanography Seminar Course Fall 2006

Instructors: Liz Sikes (room 103E ext 518) and Bob Chant (room 111C ext 544)

Syllabus as of November 28, 2006

Class meets Wednesdays 12:30-1:30p.m. in the “COOL Classroom” Room 105 (except for where noted on Syllabus)

Week 1 September 6. Liz Sikes (room 114C ext 518)

Introduction to class, discussion of topics intent etc.

Week 2 September 13 Resource faculty member: Liz Sikes (room 114C ext 518)

Student presenter: none: group discussion, mediated by Donglai Gong/ Liz Sikes

Reading: Introductory essay from Charlie Flagg’s recently submitted NSF proposal

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Week 3 September 20 class assignment is to attend the symposium

The Climate Ahead: Global Change Local Impacts

Reading: N/A

Week 4 September 27 Resource faculty member: Bob Chant (room 111C ext 544)

Student presenter: Emily Clinch

Reading: Mountain, D.G., Variability in the properties of Shelf Water in the Middle Atlantic Bight, 1977-1999 Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, doi:10.1029/20001JC001044, 2003

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Week 5 October 4 Resource faculty member: Resource faculty member: Liz Sikes (room 114C ext 518)

Student presenter: Katye Altieri

Reading: Hopkinson, C. S., J. J. Vallino, and A. Nolin., Decomposition of dissolved organic matter from the continental margin, Deep-Sea Res. II, 49, 4461-4478, 2002

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Week 6 October 11 Resource faculty member: Bob Chant (room 111C ext 544) and John Wilkin (room 214C ext 251)

Student presenter: Kate Jordon

Reading: D. Chapman, J.A. Barth, R.C. Beardsly and R.G. Fairbanks, On the continuity of mean flow between the Scotian Shelf and the Middle Atlantic Bight, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 16, 758-772, 1986.

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Week 7 October 18 Resource faculty member: John Wilkin (room 214C ext 251)

Student presenter Donglai Gong

Reading: R.K. Shearman and S.J. Lentz, Dynamics of mean and subtidal flow on the New England shelf, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, C8 3281, doi:1029/2002JC001417, 2003

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Week 8 October 25 Resource faculty member: Liz Sikes (room 114C ext 518)

Student presenter: Rachel Sipler

This reading has been chosen to coordinate with the weekly seminar by Pete Raymond on the Monday following class. Please attend the talk on Monday Oct 30.

Reading: Raymond, P. A., and J. E. Bauer, Riverine export of aged terrestrial organic matter to the North Atlantic Ocean, Nature, 409, 497-500, 2001

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Week 9 November 1 Resource faculty member: Liz Sikes and Leigh McCallister

Student presenter: Rachel Sipler

Reading: Bauer, J. E., E. R. M. Druffel, D. M. Wolgast, and S. Griffin (2002), Temporal and regional variability in sources and cycling of DOC and POC in the northwest Atlantic continental shelf and slope, Deep Sea Research II, 49, 4387-4419

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Week 10 November 8 Resource faculty member Thomas (Motz) Grouthues (in Tuckerton 6609-296-5260 x262)

Student presenter: Katye Altieri

Reading: Hare, J.A. , J. J. Churchill, R.K. Crown, T. J. Berger, P. C. Cornillion, P. Dragos, S. M. Glenn, J. J. Govoni, T. N. Lee, 2002, Routes and rates of larval transport from the southeast to the northeast United States continental shelf, Limnol. Oceanogr. 47(6), 1774-1789

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Week 11 November 15 Resource faculty member: Bronwyn Cahill (room 214A ext 253)

Student presenter: Kate Jordon

Reading: M. D. DeGrandpre, G.J. Olbu, C.M. Beatty, T.R. Hammar, Air-Sea CO₂ fluxes on the US Middle Atlantic Bight Deep Sea Research II, 49, 4355-4367, 2002.

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Week 12 November 22 Open class reading no formal class

No student presenter:

Optional reading:

Reading: S. Glenn, R. Arnone, T. Bergmann, W.P. Bissett et al., Biogeochemical impact of summertime coastal upwelling on the New Jersey Shelf, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, C12S02, doi:1029/2003JC002265, 2004

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Week 13 November 29 Resource faculty member: John Reinfelder Environmental Science (932-8013)

Student presenter: Emily Clinch

Reading: J.P. Ryan, J.A. Yoder and P.C. Cornillon, Enhanced chlorophyll at the shelfbreak of the Mid-Atlantic Bight and Georges Bank during the spring transition, Limnology and Oceanography, 44(1), 1-11, 1999.

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Week 14 December 6 Resource faculty member: Bob Chant (room 111C ext 544)

Student presenter: Donglai Gong

Reading: Biscaye, P.E.,C. N. Flagg, and P.G. Falkowski, The Shelf Edge Exchange Processes experiment, SEEP II: and introduction to hypotheses, results, and conclusions, Deep Sea Research II, 43 (2/3) 231-252, 1994

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* a Power presentation consists of: 1 graph/figure and a short discussion of the main point or significance of the paper