Date Topic Chapter
1/16 Marine
environments: classification, morphology 1
/18 Plate tectonics, continental drift; hydrologic cycle; global
heat budget
/21 No
Class MLK Holiday
/23 Circulation:
surface - currents
/25 Temperature-salinity; thermohaline circulation;
ocean conveyor system
/28 Dissolved
oxygen; physics and physiology of light
/30 Nature of
plankton 2
2/1 Larvae and life histories
/4 Organic
production in the sea; biogeochemical cycles
/6 Oceanic
energetics; global productivity
Departmental Seminar
4:00 pm
/8 Nekton 3
/11 Behavioral adaptations to the pelagic realm
/13 Physiological
adaptations to the pelagic realm
/15 EXAM I
/18 Tides and the intertidal 6
/20 Intertidal
zonation: establishment of patterns
/22 Ecology of rocky shores
/25 Physiological
adaptations to the intertidal
/27 Physics and
ecology of sandy and muddy shores
3/1 Rising
sea level and coastal inundation 11, p
488-
/4 Estuaries:
types and characteristics 8
/6 Physiology and
behavior of estuarine organisms
/8 Ecology of
estuaries and salt marshes
3 /11-15 SPRING BREAK
/18 Tropical estuaries: mangrove forests 9, p 416-
/20 Ecology of mangrove communities
/22 EXAM II
/25 Tropical marine
biology: corals 9
/27 Coral reef:
structure
/29 No Class Good Friday
4/1 Coral reef:
ecology
/3 Biology of the
deep sea: sampling and the environment 4
/5 Mid-water and
deep sea ecology
/8 Hydrothermal
Vents/Cold Seeps
/10 Other symbiotic
associations 10
/12 No Class
/15 Physics of Polar seas 5, p 220-
/17 Ecology of Polar
seas
/19 Human impacts: tragedy of the whales TERM PAPER Due
in Class 11
/22 Human impacts:
demise of global fisheries
/24 Human impacts:
invasive species and marine biodiversity
/26-28 FIELD TRIP:
DUKE MARINE LABORATORY
/29 Global warming:
El Nino/La Nina and the Southern Oscillation
5/1 Climatic change:
a new Ice Age?
TEXT: Nybakken
- Marine Biology, 5th edition 2001
Grading:
Exams I & II - 25% each
Final - 30% and it will be cumulative.
About 80% will come from material after Exam II; the remainder will be
conceptual questions linking aspects of the whole course.
Term Paper 15% - and oral PowerPoint presentation 5%. We will discuss this further, but the
objective is to write a comprehensive review of existing scholarly literature
on some topic in marine science. The
papers should be 12-15 pages (12 point, double spaced, 1" margins), and be
based on a minimum of 10 references, at least 6 of which must be primary
sources. From these papers you are to
prepare a PowerPoint presentation that will be presented to the class during
the lab period of April 24.
There will be no separate lab grade; no lab reports. The content of the laboratory exercises will
be incorporated into the lecture exams.