Visit these web sites, and come to class ready to discuss the functions of a scientific society:

• AGU
• GSA
• AMS

• Paper
• Appendix

• Discuss the parts of a scientific paper
• Discuss the citation style used in science, and the preponderance of journal articles in the references cited
• Discuss the weaving of geology, biology, climatology, and GIS in this paper's tracing of past climates and snakehead distribution.
• Paper analysis checklists

• Understand the measures of earthquake size
• Understand the importance of the T phase.

Handout

1. Discuss the parameters we can measure with a radar altimeter (sea surface height or geoid, significant wave height, and wind speed), and what in the radar return we use to measure each.
2. Describe what the radar altimeter indicated about the possible driving force behind Hurricane Katrina's intensification.

1. Use the Nyquist frequency to develop a sampling strategy for a periodic function.

2. Describe the use of Fourier analysis to investigate the periodic nature of a time series.

3. Differentiate cross correlation and autocorrelation, and define lags and the correlation coefficient.

1. Discuss the advantages of the active voice in scientific writing.
2. Understand the citation style in science, especially the important of correctly citing multiple authors, and the correct citation style for papers in multi-authored volumes.
3. Understand the importance of clear, concise text.
4. Understand the necessity for clearly and completely indicating the source of data and any transformations used on it.

• Discuss the importance of substance over gimmicks in scientific Power Point presentations.
• Discuss the importance of the slide contents to the presenter and the audience.
• Consider the amount of text that should be on a slide, and the relative balance between text, graphics, and blank space.

• Understand the difference between vertical and horizontal datums.
• Understand the difference between a tidal datum and a vertical datum like NAVD88.
• Understand the structure and properties of a digital elevation model.

• Discuss the use of tree ring data as a proxy for past climate.
• Understand how cross correlation allows merging records from living trees and dead wood.
• Describe the interdisciplinary nature of tree ring research.

• Discuss the general characteristics of El Nino circulation, and how these can be deduced from microfossils.
• Differentiate cosmopolitan and endemic animals, and their relative advantages for paleoclimate work.

• Slowing of Atlantic Ocean overturning
• Mapping fish populations with sonar 

• Discuss how we can try to monitor ocean circulation over time, and how this relates to global climate change.
• Discuss how sonar mapping can help determine fish populations

• Discuss the use of time series analysis of satellite imagery to model upwelling and ocean fronts, and its importance to management of natural resources.

• Discuss the challenges for scientific research in times of tight budgets.

• EOS, 18 April 2006 Mapping Supports Potential Submission to U.N. Law of the Sea
• EOS, 18 April 2006 Satellite Maps Show Chesapeake Bay Urban Development

• Understand the importance of bathymetric mapping, both for scientific purposes and legal reasons for delineation of the US EEZ
• Describe the use of land classification maps derived from satellite and their use in environmental monitoring of the Cheaspeake Bay

• Discuss the use of databases in finding relevant journal papers, especially the Web of Science and its ability to find more recent papers that cite a particular paper.
• Discuss strategies for reading papers, and which sections are most important.