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OCN 201L - Science of the Sea Laboratory
Course Description
- Prerequisite or Corequisite: OCN 201
OCN 201L is designed as a lab course to provide experiential education in basic oceanography. Through lab experiments, computer-aided data collection and analysis, field trips and visual observations, students will learn about earth, ocean and atmospheric interactions, ecological concepts, ocean resource utilization and management, environmental pollution and its impacts on world oceans. It will complement lectures in OCN 201 class.
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of OCN 201L, the student will be able to:
- Learn about navigation and marine chart preparation
- Prepare and be able to read bathymetric charts
- Understand about tools used in the study of Earth’s interior and seafloor spreading
- Identify different type of rocks and learn about volcanoes
- Measure and plot temperature, salinity and nutrient distributions and study their influence on biological processes.
- Learn how to collect and analyze data regarding seawater chemistry
- Learn how to take sediment samples and data analysis
- Study about weather and climate change
- Plot and identify surface currents in world oceans
- Study wave structure, wave type and tides.
- Learn to classify marine organisms and quantitative studies on plankton, nekton and benthos
- Study topics in Fisheries, aquaculture and resource management
- Undertake water quality monitoring activities