Ocean Sciences - Spring 1999

 
This course provides the prerequisite training required for all research diving performed under the auspices of UCSC or other academic institutions. It is also prerequisite for Biology 161/161L: Kelp Forest Ecology ; and Biology 162/162L: Sea of Cortez Marine Ecology.
 
Course work includes lectures and scuba diving. Topics include: subtidal sampling techniques, navigation, low visibility diving, search and recovery, rescues, small boat use, oxygen administration for divers, technical, blue water deep diving, physics, and physiology. An outline and preliminary schedule may be viewed on the class web page at http://wwwcatsic.ucsc.edu/~ocea71/
 
Prerequisites: A detailed description of the prerequisites is available on the above class web site, or from the SCIENTIFIC DIVING & BOATING SAFETY PROGRAM OFFICE < http://www2.ucsc.edu/sci-diving/> located in E&MS A414.
Prospective students must arrange an interview with the diving officer in the quarter prior to enrollment to ascertain their need for research certification and their compliance with all requirements with respect to university and national standards. Prospective students must have achieved training equivalent to "Advanced Open Water" through a nationally recognized scuba instructional progam and be able to provide all their own basic scuba diving equipment, subject to inspection and approval by the dive officer.
 
Enrollment is limited to 16.

 
The goal of this class is to introduce non-science students to marine organisms and the major ocean habitats. The class combines formal lectures, field trips (both required and optional ones) and section meetings that serve both as discussion groups and as laboratory
sessions to study organisms encountered on field trips. Lectures will be given primarily by the instructor, but guest experts will speak on selected subjects.
 
This is an introductory course, designed for non-science majors, and fulfills the T2-Natural Sciences general education requirement. The prerequisites are high school biology and chemistry.
 
For examples of the types of activities, check out the LIFE IN THE SEA class web site <http://wwwcatsic.ucsc.edu/~ocea80a/> from last fall, although much of the emphases will vary in the spring. The Instructor for the Spring Quarter offering of OCEA 80A is Phil Levin <http://members.aol.com/Labrid/levin.html>.
 

 
Chemical Oceanography is a chemical description of the sea, with emphasis on the chemical interactions of the oceans with the biosphere, atmosphere, and lithosphere.
 
Topics include biogeochemical cycles and the use of chemical tracers to study oceanic and coastal processes.
 
The course is designed for graduate students, but upper-division science majors are welcome.
 
For more details on this course, check out the OCEA 220 class web site and syllabus <http://wwwcatsic.ucsc.edu/~ocea220/> from last year.
 

 
This course uses a seminar format combined with demonstrations and field trips to explore different problems of special interest in biological oceanography. The topic for Spring 1999 is "Harmful Algal Blooms".
 
Prerequisite: interview with instructor prior to first class meeting. May be repeated for credit.
 
For details contact Professor Mary Silver <http://natsci.ucsc.edu/acad/oceansci/mwsCV.html >.

Revised 8/3/04.