SO503 Spring 2004

Lecture Syllabus (4/6/2004)

Mon	12-Jan	Scientific societies Visit these web sites, and come to class ready to discuss the functions of a scientific society: AGU GSA AMS	Discuss the role of scientific professional societies in holding meetings, publishing papers, and publishing newsletters. Describe the funding of scientific research with grants, and the difference between "hard" and "soft" money. Understand the role of "big science" versus individual research projects. Know the major funding agencies for earth sciences: NSF and ONR, and the difference between NRL and ONR.
Wed	14-Jan	Scientific writing and presentations	Discuss the importance of priority in scientific research, and the role of refereed and peer reviewed journals. Understand the importance of abstracts, and the need for clear, concise, and informative abstracts. Describe the importance of oral and poster presentations for scientific research.
Mon	19-Jan	MLK Birthday
Wed	21-Jan	Research opportunities
Mon	26-Jan	Nile Delta Submergence Paper anatomy	General: BRE Abstract FRA Introduction/BackgroundHEB Methodology MIL Results MOO Graphics OBR Summary and conclusions PAS References WIL Discuss the parts of a scientific paper. Discuss the purpose and findings of the paper on the Nile Delta submergence.
Wed	28-Jan	EOS: future of geosciences	Come to class prepared to discuss the reading.
Mon	2-Feb	EOS: Marine Micro-ogranisms and pack ice,	Come to class prepared to discuss the reading.
Wed	4-Feb	EOS: Ridge earthquakes	Come to class prepared to discuss the reading.
Mon	9-Feb	Exam
Wed	11-Feb	Bathymetry from Space Possible, EOS, 4 Feb 2003
Mon	16-Feb	Presidents Day
Wed	18-Feb	Photoradiometer
Mon	23-Feb	Reading EOS	Understand what types of things are included in EOS. Understand the role of a staff or science writer. Interpret job listings in EOS.
Wed	25-Feb	Military Applications and Search Engines	Write a paper (at least 500 words, 2 scholarly references) on the relationship of some part of oceanography or meteorology to the military. This will be due Wed, 3 March.
Mon	1-Mar	Remote Sensing	Understand the relationships among wavelength, bandwidth, radiometric resolution, spatial resolution, and signal to noise ratio, and how these vary with position in the electromagnetic spectrum. Discuss the tradeoffs involved with increasing spatial resolution. Discuss the reasons why remote sensing concentrates on certain parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Wed	3-Mar	wet mars minites mossb apxs EOS: Carbon cycle and climate change
Mon	8-Mar	Writing
Wed	10-Mar	Mt Erebus volcanic monitoring
Mon	15-Mar	Spring Break
Wed	17-Mar	Spring Break
Mon	22-Mar	Scientific Graphics
Wed	24-Mar	Side scan sonar and sub bottom profiling: http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/gloria/gloria.html http://users.bestweb.net/~ladd/Benthic_Mapping/Subbottom%20Profiling.htm
Mon	29-Mar	Eos, 23 March 2004 AGU Publications Climate Reconstructions
Wed	31-Mar	GIS Defense Mapping School Handout	Discuss the components and importance of GIS. Discuss the types of data used in a GIS: vector, raster, and grid. Discuss the uses of filtering and querying available with a GIS, and how they help scientific inquiry. Discuss why GIS relates so well to the earth sciences.
Mon	5-Apr	Exam 2
Wed	7-Apr	Time Series	Use the Nyquist frequency to develop a sampling strategy for a periodic function. Describe the use of Fourier analysis to investigate the periodic nature of a time series. Differentiate cross correlation and autocorrelation, and define lags and the correlation coefficient.