| Week |
Science Lesson |
Online lesson |
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Science Focus |
History tie-ins |
Engineering tie-ins |
| Feb 11-15 |
GIS of ship logs |
History 3: Navigation and Log Books in the Age of Sail History 4: History and Construction of the Duc de Duras and the Bonhomme Richard |
1. Extract from book by Wheeler and others (online at http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/cliwoc-climatological-database-for-the-world-s-oceans-pbKINA21236/) Read (PDF pages 13-17, 58-60, 87-101; actual book pages on bottom left; pp. 5-9, 50-52, 79-93) 2. Go through the online lessons on the left to understand something of the construction of an East Indiaman, and about the French experience in the Indian Ocean in the 18th century. |
See patterns of shipping lanes, the relationship to climate. |
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| Feb 19-24 |
Analysis of drift models |
Science
2: Geographic Information Systems and Oceanographic Modeling |
Britvic, O., and Allen,
A.A., (2008). “An Operational Search and Rescue Model for the Norwegian Sea
and the |
Coriolis, tides, winds, leeway. Evalute the
relative importance of each in a drift model for the BHR |
History of French East
Indiaman rigging, hull design; Museum visit to look at ship models |
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| Feb 25-Mar 1 |
Analysis of 3D sonar point
cloud from the Ghost ship in the Baltic |
http://www.hydro-international.com/issues/articles/id1236-The_Ghost_Ship_Expedition.html |
Manipulation of sonar 3D
data, measuring the ship. Compare the
results to historic records of fluyt ships |
History of Dutch fluyt ship design, and Dutch ascendency in the 17th
century; Museum visit to look at ship models |
Data collected by ROV, sonars are a major engineering tool |
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| Mar 4-8 |
Side scan sonar analysis |
http://www.instituteformarineacoustics.org /SonarPrimer/SideScanSonar.htm
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Principles of side scan
operation, deployment, and analysis |
History of sidescan sonar development, military role and secrecy |
Sonars are a major engineering tool |
last revision 2/7/2013