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1 EAS 4300: Introduction to Oceanography, FALL 2009 INSTRUCTORS: Emanuele Di Lorenzo phone 404-894-3994 office ES&T 3244 email [email protected] Kim Cobb phone 404-894-3895 office ES&T 3240 email [email protected] TA: Yisen Zhong Email [email protected] Course Website http://ocean3d.org/eas-4300

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EAS 4300: Introduction to Oceanography, FALL 2009 

INSTRUCTORS:        Emanuele Di Lorenzo phone 404-894-3994 office ES&T 3244 email [email protected] 

Kim Cobbphone 404-894-3895office ES&T 3240email [email protected]

TA:        Yisen ZhongEmail [email protected] 

Course Website http://ocean3d.org/eas-4300

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Why do we care about Oceanography?

Questions for you:

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Biodiversity

Medical potential/drug discovery

New models of life

Climate

Fisheries

Things to think about:

Recreation

Fossil fuel resource

Ocean energy

Navigation/transportation

Carbon cycle

Marine biology

Hazards

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Ocean & Energy

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Ocean & Energy

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Ocean & Hazards

Sea surface temperature in the tropical oceans fuel hurricanes

Hurricanes becoming more intense as ocean warms?

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Ocean & Drug Discovery

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The ocean plays a dominant role in heat transport and mixing

Ocean & Climate

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NORTH AMERICA

Gulf of Alaska

Thomson, R. E., and J. F. R. Gower, 1998: A basin-scale oceanic instability event in the Gulf of Alaska. J Geophys Res-Oceans, 103,

3033-3040.

Vortices are the strongest mixing agent in the ocean. They influence the ocean circulation and biology.

Ocean & Climate

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Global Surface Temperatures and Sea Level are rising

Ocean & Climate Change

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Global Surface Temperatures and Sea Level are rising

Ocean & Climate Change

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Ocean climate affects fish distributions and abundance

Sardines/Anchovies

synchronized alternations between sardines/anchovies over the entire Pacific Ocean?

Ocean & Climate & Marine Ecosystems

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Marine Ecosystem regulate the cycling of chemical species relevant to climate (e.g. Carbon Dioxide)

Chlorophyll Spring 2005 (MODIS Satellite)

Ocean & Carbon Cycle

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Ocean & Carbon Cycle

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Ocean & Marine Biodiversity

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Ocean & New Model for Life

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How do we define the science of Oceanography?

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ManuOcean and climate dynamicsPhysical-biological interactions in the oceanOcean Forecasting

We studied oceanography in San Diego at theScripps Institution of Oceanography

KimClimate and paleoclimateEl Nino-Southern Oscillation

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The Scientific Method