Class mechanics: Syllabus & schedule.

Instructors: Emmanuel boss (emmanuel.boss@maine.edu) and Charlotte Begouen Demeaux (charlotte.begouen@maine.edu).

Office hours: Monday afternoon, Aubert 4th floor 458 or 461b). Please let us know (by email) if you are planning on coming so we can make sure one of us is available.

TA: Alexis Merk (alexis.merk@maine.edu)

Class modules:

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

2. What causes or affects the ocean waters movement?

3. How are energy and 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. Due Dates Calendar - where you can see what needs to be done by when. 

3. ArcGIS online - UMS link.

4. QGIS - a free GIS software. 

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

6. World register of marine species (WoRMS)

7. Ocean Biodiversity information system (OBIS)

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

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

10. NOAA's GeoPlatform.

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

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

13. SMS204 class where Boss got deeper into many relevant subject + videos of demonstrations.