Week
|
Date
|
Lecture
|
Topic
|
Notes/ Basic Readings
|
|
1 M
|
08/23
|
|
Course
Overview and Introduction
|
|
|
1 W
|
08/25
|
1
|
Physical
Geography and Climate
|
Chapter 1 - Introduction
|
|
1 Th
|
08/26
|
Lab 1
|
Geography
Lab
|
|
|
2 M
|
08/30
|
2
|
Polar
Exploration: Arctic
|
Chapter 2 - Part
1
|
|
2 W
|
09/01
|
3
|
Polar Exploration:
Antarctic
|
Chapter 2
- Part II
|
|
2 Th
|
09/02
|
4
|
Polar
Exploration: Modern Times
Movie:
Shackleton
|
Chapter 2 - Part III
|
|
3 M
|
09/06
|
|
Labor Day- No Class!
|
|
| 3 T |
09/07
|
5 |
Sea
Ice I: overview and ice types
Movie: Katabatic
|
Chapter 3 - Part I |
|
3 W
|
09/08
|
6
|
Sea Ice
II: ice formation and properties
|
Chapter 3 - Part
II
|
|
3 Th
|
09/09
|
6
|
Sea Ice
II: ice formation and properties
|
|
|
4 M
|
09/13
|
7
|
Sea Ice II: salinity
|
|
|
4 W
|
09/15
|
8
|
Sea Ice III: thermodynamics
|
Quiz,
Chapter 3 - Part III
|
|
4 Th
|
09/16
|
Lab 2
|
Sea
Ice Lab I: sea ice properties
|
|
|
5 M
|
09/20
|
9
|
Sea Ice
III: thermodynamics
|
|
|
5 W
|
09/22
|
9
|
Sea Ice III:
thermodynamics
|
|
|
5 Th
|
09/23
|
Lab 3
|
Sea
Ice: Thermodynamics
|
|
|
6 M
|
09/27
|
10
|
Sea Ice IV:
dynamics
|
Chapter 3 - Part
IV
|
|
6 W
|
09/29
|
11
|
|
|
|
6 Th
|
09/30
|
Lab 4
|
Sea Ice: Summer Thermodynamics
|
|
|
7 M
|
10/04
|
|
Review
|
|
|
7 W
|
10/06
|
|
|
|
|
7 Th
|
10/07
|
Lab 4.5
|
Sea
Ice: Dynamics
|
|
|
8 M
|
10/11
|
12
|
Sea Ice
VI: remote sensing
|
Chapter 3 - Part V
|
|
8 W
|
10/13
|
13
|
Arctic Oceanography I
|
Chapter 4 -
Arctic
|
|
8 Th
|
10/14
|
Lab 5
|
Sea
Ice III: Remote Sensing
|
|
|
9 M
|
10/18
|
14
|
Arctic Oceanography II
|
|
|
9 W
|
10/20
|
15
|
Antarctic
Oceanography I
|
Chapter 4 -
Antarctic
|
|
9 Th
|
10/21
|
Lab 6
|
Arctic
Oceanography Lab
|
|
|
10 M
|
10/25
|
15
|
Antarctic
Oceanography II
|
|
|
10 W
|
10/27
|
16
|
Deep
Water Formation
|
Chapter 4 - Deep Water
|
|
10 Th
|
10/28
|
Lab 7
|
Antarctic Oceanography Lab
|
Quiz
|
|
11 M
|
11/01
|
|
Oceanography wrap-up
|
|
|
11 W
|
11/03
|
17
|
Meteorology I
|
Chapter 5
- Meteorology
|
|
11 Th
|
11/04
|
18
|
Meteorology II and
Review
|
|
|
12 M
|
11/08
|
|
Exam II
|
|
|
12 W
|
11/10
|
19
|
Glaciers, Ice
Sheets, and Icebergs
|
Chapter 6 -
Glaciers,
Ice Sheets, and Icebergs
|
|
12 Th
|
11/11
|
|
|
|
|
13 M
|
11/15
|
20
|
Glaciers and Paleoclimate
|
paper pres. begin
|
|
13 W
|
11/17
|
20
|
Paleoclimate
|
Chapter 7 - Paleoclimate
|
|
13 Th
|
11/18
|
Lab 8
|
Climate
Lab
|
|
|
14 M
|
11/22
|
21
|
Climate Variability
|
Chapter 7
- Climate Variability
|
|
14 W
|
11/24
|
22
|
Climate
Change
|
Chapter 7 -
Climate Change
|
|
14 Th
|
11/25
|
|
Thanksgiving
– No Class!
|
|
|
15 M
|
11/29
|
23
|
Biology I
|
Chapter 8 - Biology
|
|
15 W
|
12/01
|
24
|
Biology II
|
|
|
15 Th
|
12/02
|
|
Movie: Blue Planet?
|
|
|
16 M
|
12/06
|
|
Wrap-up |
|
|
16 W
|
12/08
|
|
Friday schedule – No Class!
|
|
|
16 Th
|
12/09
|
|
Final?
|
|
|
16 F
|
12/10
|
|
Course
Review (Optional)
|
