NSCC Online Oceanography 100

Week-By-Week Assignments Schedule

Autumn Quarter 2009

 

Week Due Wednesday Due Saturday
Other
#1 (9/27-10/3)
Theme A - Introduction to the Ocean Sciences

N/A

Start planning field trip dates
Required Readings
#2 (10/4-10/10)
Theme B - Plate Tectonics and Seafloor Geography
  • Quiz #2 (10/10)
  • Q&A #2 Part A (10/10)

Start working on Scientific Method homework
Required Readings
#3 (10/11-10/17)
Theme C - Sediments, Coasts, and Beaches, begins
  • Homework Project #2 (10/14)
  • Q&A #2 Part B (10/14)
  • Scientific Method (10/14) (instructions)
  • Quiz #3 (10/17)
  • Q&A #3 Part A (10/17)

Collect sediments for homework (and a couple of extra cups of sand for a later project)

Required Readings
#4 (10/18-10/24)
Theme C - Sediments, Coasts, and Beaches, concludes
  • Homework Project #3 (10/21)
  • Q&A #3 Part B (10/21)
  • Quiz #4 (10/24)
  • Q&A #4 Part A (10/24)

TBA
Required Readings
#5 (10/25-10/31)
Theme D - Seawater Physics and Chemistry
  • Homework Project #4 (10/28)
  • Q&A #4 Part B (10/28)
  • Quiz #5 (10/31)
  • Q&A #5 Part A (10/31)

Plan your temperature-salinity-density experiment
Required Readings
#6 (11/1-11/7)
Theme E - Atmospheric and Ocean Circulation
  • Homework Project #5 (11/4)
  • Q&A #5 Part B (11/4)
  • Quiz #6 (11/7)
  • Q&A #6 Part A (11/7)

Arrange to watch "An Inconvenient Truth"
Required Readings
#7 (11/8-11/14)
Theme F - Waves and Tides
  • Homework Project #6 (11/11)
  • Q&A #6 Part B (11/11)
  • Quiz #7 (11/14)
  • Q&A #7 Part A (11/14)

Plan your oil spill experiment
Required Readings
#8 (11/15-11/21)
Theme G - Marine Resources and Environmental Concerns
  • Homework Project #7 (11/18)
  • Q&A #7 Part B (11/18)
  • Quiz #8 (11/21)
  • Q&A #8 Part A (11/21)

Arrange to watch "Blue Planet: The Deep"
Required Readings
#9 (11/22-11/28)
Theme H - Life in the Ocean, begins
  • Homework Project #8 (11/25)
  • Q&A #8 Part B (11/25)
  • Quiz #9 (11/28)
  • Q&A #9 Part A (11/28)

TBA
Required Readings
#10 (11/29-12/5)
Theme H - Life in the Ocean, concludes
  • Homework Project #9 (12/2)
  • Q&A #9 Part B (12/2)
  • Quiz #10 (12/5)
  • Q&A #10 Part A (12/5)

TBA
Required Readings
#11 (12/6-12/12)
  • Homework Project #10 (12/9)
  • Q&A #10 Part B (12/9)

N/A

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