Class mechanics: Syllabus & schedule.

Instructors: Emmanuel boss (emmanuel.boss@maine.edu), Charlotte Begouen Demeaux (charlotte.begouen@maine.edu), Alexis Merk (alexis.merk@maine.edu).

Office hours: after class on Thursday, Aubert 4th floor 458 or 461b). Please let us know (by email or in class) if you are planning on coming.

Class modules:

1. The Ocean's boundaries and their impact on the ocean. 

2. What causes/affects the ocean waters movement?

3. How is energy/information propagated in the ocean?

4. How are different materials cycling in the ocean?

5. Characteristics of ocean ecosystems. Who is there with whom and why?

6. human's interactions with the ocean.

Useful resources:

1. Free Oceanography and GIS textbooks and other useful materials.

2. ArcGIS online - UMS link.

3. QGIS - a free GIS software. 

4. Marineregions.org, a source for useful geographic data. 

5. World register of marine species

6. Ocean Biodiversity information system

7. GIS for Oceans. ESRI site for (some) ocean data + interesting story maps.

8. Northeast Ocean data portal - great resource for Gulf of Maine data.

9. NOAA's GeoPlatform.

10. ODV guides: Getting started, and how to guides.

11. ODV plots of WOCE sections of temperature, salinity, oxygen, nitrate, silicate, phosphate and CFC11 (a water mass tracer).

12. SMS204 class where I get deeper into many relevant subject + videos of demonstrations.