Biological Oceanography
EESS 151/251 EARTHSYS 151/251
Lecturer: Professor Kevin Arrigo, E-mail: arrigo@stanford.edu, Phone: x33599
TA: Kate Lewis, E-mail: kmlewis@stanford.edu, Phone: x36658
Website: ocean.stanford.edu/courses/EESS151
Book: Biological Oceanography, 2nd edition, by Charles B. Miller and Patricia A. Wheeler
March 31
April 2
April 2
Introduction
Ch 1: Ocean ecology: some fundamental aspects
Activity 1 – Working with oceanographic data
April 7
April 9
April 9
Ch. 2: The phycology of phytoplankton
Ch. 3: Habitat determinants of primary production in the sea
Activity 2 – Estimating marine primary production
April 14
April 16
Ch. 5: A sea of microbes: archaea, bacteria, protists, and viruses in marine pelagial
Activity 3 - Monterey Bay Field trip
April 21
April 23
April 23
Extra readings: Biogeochemically important organisms (upper trophic levels)
Ch. 6: The zoology of zooplankton
Activity 3 - Monterey Bay Field trip – sample analysis
April 28
April 30
April 30
Ch. 7: Production ecology of marine zooplankton
Ch. 9: Pelagic food webs
Activity 3 – Monterey Bay Field trip – data analysis
May 5
May 7
May 7
Ch. 10: Biogeography of pelagic habitats
Ch. 11: Biome and province analysis of the oceans
Activity 2 – Estimating marine primary production
May 12
May 14
April 23
Ch. 13: The fauna of deep-sea sediments
Ch. 15: Submarine hydrothermal vents
Activity 2 - Presentations
May 19
May 21
May 21
Ch. 12: Adaptive complexes of meso- and bathypelagic organisms
Ch. 14: Some benthic community ecology
Activity 4 – Ocean iron fertilization
May 26
May 28
May 28
Ch. 16: Ocean ecology and global climate change
Ch. 17: Fisheries oceanography
Activity 4 - Presentations
June 2
Marine ‘OMICS’
Grading
Activity 1
Activity 2, 3, 4
Reading responses
Final
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