BISC 582, Fall 2015
Advanced Biological Oceanography
Tuesdays-Thursdays, 2-320, C-Debi Conference Room
Sergio Sanudo-Wilhelmy (sanudo@usc.edu, phone 213-821-1302, office in AHF 206)
Dale Kiefer (kiefer@usc.edu, phone 213-740-5814, office in AHF 342).
Douglas Capone (capone@usc.edu, phone 213-740-2772, AHF 108))
Textbook: David W. Townsend, Oceanography and Marine Biology, 2012, Sinauer
Assoc.
Other Recommended Resources:
A. Longhurst, Ecological Geography of the Sea, 2nd Ed., 2007, Acad. Press., San
Diego
J. Sarmiento & N. Gruber, Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics, 2006, Princeton
Univ. Press.
D. Kirchman (Ed), Microbial Ecology of the Oceans, 2nd ed. 2008, Wiley, NY.
W. Schlesinger & E. Bernhardt, Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change,
3rd Edition (2013), Academic Press, San Diego.
Andrew Bakun. Patterns in the Ocean, Ocean Processes and Marine Population
Dynamics. California Sea Grant College System, NOAA.
K.H. Mann & J.R.N. Lazier. Dynamics of Marine Ecosystems, Biological–
Physical Interactions in the Oceans. 3rd Edition, Blackwell Publishing.
Classical Papers Web-sites
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/oceanography/zij/education/ocn750-hp/
http://marine.rutgers.edu/main/Great-Papers.html
Additional outside reading assignments will be provided for many of the lectures.
All PowerPoint lectures will be posted on Blackboard.
Grading will be based on two comprehensive mid-term exams (30% each),
participation in the two directed primary literature reading discussions (10%), and a
research paper (~10 pages) on a topic of current interest in biological oceanography that
will be due on the last day of class (30%). Paper topics must be approved by one of the
instructors and must be finalized by the end of September. Further instructions on the
format of the paper and the discussion sessions will be provided after the start of the
class.
Date
25 Aug
27 Aug
Sep 1
Sep 3
Sep 8
Topic
Course Description and History of
Oceanog
Chemical Oceanography
(con’t)
Stella Modelling
Physical Oceanography
Lecturer
Sanudo/
Capone
Sanudo
Sanudo
Kiefer
Kiefer
Reading
Chap 1 Townsend
Chap. 4.
Stella Project
Chap. 5,6
Sep 10
Sep 15
Sep 17
Sep 22
Kiefer
(con’t)
Marine Ecosystems, Ocean Food Webs and
Distributions of Marine Organisms
Capone
(con’t)
Capone
Kiefer
3 Nov
Phytoplankton & Primary Production
Phytoplankton & Primary Production II
(optics)
Zooplankton & Secondary Production
Nutrient Biogeochem- General Concepts
Nutrient Biogeochem- C cycle
(con’t)
Nutrient Biogeochemistry (trace metals,
vitamins)
(con’t)
Nutrient Biogeochem- N cycle
(con’t)
Nutrient Biogeochem- P, S cycles
Midterm
Optical Oceanography and Remote
Sensing
5 Nov
10 Nov
(con’t)
Modeling Plankton Dynamics
Kiefer
Kiefer
12 Nov
17 Nov
19 Nov
(con’t)
Fisheries and Aquaculture, Benthic Biology
(con’t)
Climate Change, Ocean Acidification and
Other Human Impacts
Thanksgiving
(con’t)
Sep 24
Sep 29
Oct 1
Oct 6
Oct 8
Oct 13
Oct 15
Oct 20
Oct 22
Oct 27
Oct 29
24 Nov
26 Nov
1 Dec
3 Dec
Selected primary literature readings in BO
10 Dec
Midterm 2, 2-400 pm
Sanudo-Wilhelmy: 8 Lecture
Kiefer: 10 Lectures
Capone: 9 Lectures
Kiefer
Duguay
Capone
Capone
Capone
Sanudo
Sanudo
Capone
Capone
Capone
Kiefer
Kiefer
Kiefer
Sanudo
Sanudo/
Capone
Mann & Lazier:
2.1-2.2.9,3.1-3.2.3,
5.1-5.2.4, 8.1-8.2.5
Chap. 7, 12
Townsend Ch 7
p.227-231,Ch. 8;
Kiefer Mitchell,
1983
Chap. 9
Moore et al.
Capone
Karl
Kirk Chap. 1
Kiefer et al. 1979;
Wilson Kiefer 1979
Townsend Chap.
14
Bakun Chap. 2-7