Labs

IF YOU ARE IN A CLASS THAT DOES LABS "ONLINE" or need to do an online make-up lab:

You will be taken to a Canvas task that will allow you to complete the lab online. To create the online labs, I took pictures and made videos of lab experiments, and combined them with additional text and the questions from the original labs. You might think of them as very long Canvas quizzes which contain most of the information that you need to answer the quiz questions. 

This page contains links to printable PDF copies of the labs and resources that you can use to work on the in-class labs at home or review them at home. The Assignment files contain pictures and instructions for working on the labs at home. This page also has videos of experiments. The assignment files and videos on this page contain that key information that you need to answer the lab questions. All the pictures and videos linked to on this page are embedded in the lab tasks in Canvas, so you don't need to review them here.

Especially if you are in a fully online version of the class: please, please, please ask questions about these online labs. Please DO discuss them in the weekly online discussion; you will get help AND credit for participating in the weekly discussion.

Map Skills Lab (3A)

Lab

Assignment File
(Pictures and instructions for completing the lab at home and offline)

You may find the following videos to be a useful introduction to some of the topics in this lab.

Latitude and Longitude (Earth Rocks!)

Latitude and Longitude

Travel the Seas (Ocean Today, NOAA)

Latitude and Longitude, and reading nautical charts.

https://oceantoday.noaa.gov/traveltheseas/

Profiles Lab (3B)

Lab

Contour Maps Lab (3C)

Lab

Seawater Chemistry Lab (4A)

Lab

Assignment File
(Pictures and instructions for completing the lab at home and offline)

Videos of Seawater Chemistry Lab Experiments

Coral and Acid

Sediments Lab (6A)

Lab

Assignment File
(Pictures and instructions for completing the lab at home and offline)

Shorelines Lab (6A)

Lab

Assignment File
(Pictures and instructions for completing the lab at home and offline)

Ocean Currents Lab (9A)

Lab

Assignment File
(Pictures and instructions for completing the lab at home and offline)

Videos of Ocean Currents Lab Experiments

Gyre A
Gyre B

Gyre C
Gyre D


Upwelling and Downwelling

Phytoplankton Lab (10A) (Primary Productivity Lab)

Lab

Assignment File
(Pictures and instructions for completing the lab at home and offline)

Plate Tectonics Lab (11A)

Lab

Assignment File
(Pictures and instructions for completing the lab at home and offline)

Climate Change Lab (12A)

Lab

Assignment File
(Pictures and instructions for completing the lab at home and offline)

Videos of Climate Change Lab Experiments

Thermohaline Circulation 

Cabrillo Beach ASA (14A)

ASA

Part 1:  Slides  -  Audio  -  Transcript

Part 2:  Slides  -  Audio  -  Transcript

Rocky Beach ASA (14B)

ASA

Part 1:  Slides  -  Audio  -  Transcript

Part 2:  Slides  -  Audio  -  Transcript

Redondo Beach Pier ASA (14C)

ASA

Slides  -  Audio  -  Transcript

Videos of Redondo Beach Pier ASA Experiments

Water Sampler

Kelp Motion

Waves in the Harbor
Waves under the Pier 

Sandy Shore ASA (14D)

ASA

Slides  -  Audio  -  Transcript

Videos of Sandy Shore ASA Experiments

LST