We will use EOS as the source for many of the readings for the course, and
this will be updated as the semester progresses.
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Fri |
1/5/07 |
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Course introduction |
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Mon |
1/8/07 |
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Visit these web sites, and
come to class ready to discuss the functions of a
scientific society:
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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.
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Wed |
1/10/07 |
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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.
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Wed |
1/17/07 |
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Anatomy of a Scientific Paper |
- 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
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Mon |
1/22/07 |
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EOS for 16 Jan 2007 |
- Discuss what is in EOS, and how it relates to research in the
earth sciences
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Wed |
1/24/07 |
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Oceanography Dept Research Opportunities |
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Mon |
1/29/07 |
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EOS for 23 Jan 2007
- North Korean nuclear test
- Tonga volcano
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Wed |
1/31/07 |
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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
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Mon |
2/5/07 |
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Arctic sea ice from Navy subs (EOS, 30 Jan) |
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Wed |
2/7/07 |
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Global Climate Change report |
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Mon |
2/12/07 |
X_Week |
Surveying flash flood response in mountain streams (EOS, 6 Feb 2007) |
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Wed |
2/14/07 |
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Background reading on
computer fundamentals. |
- Differentiate lossy and lossless compression
- Discuss the types computers uses to store data: ASCII and
binary, real/floating point and integer;
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Wed |
2/21/07 |
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Time series class |
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Mon |
2/26/07 |
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Time series part 2 |
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Wed |
2/28/07 |
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EOS 27 Feb 2007
- Sea level rise and population
- Hurricanes in 2006
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Mon |
3/5/07 |
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Guest lecture #1 |
Students will turn in a one paragraph summary of the lecture at the
start of the next class. |
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Wed |
3/7/07 |
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Guest lecture #2 |
Students will turn in a one paragraph summary of the lecture at the
start of the next class. |
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Mon |
3/19/07 |
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EOS, 6 and 13 March 2007
- Award citation and response
- Wikipedia
- Mayans and climate
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- Discuss the purpose of awards in science, and what you can learn
from the citation and response.
- How does (or does not) Wikipedia compare with a traditional
refereed journal
- What evidence supports a link between climate and the major
crises in Mayan civilization? What techniques did the paper
use to make this point?
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Wed |
3/21/07 |
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Guest lecture #3 |
Students will turn in a one paragraph summary of the lecture at the
start of the next class. |
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Mon |
3/26/07 |
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Satellite Drifter data |
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Wed |
3/28/07 |
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Oral presentations in science |
- 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.
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Mon |
4/2/07 |
X-week |
Exam 2 |
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Wed |
4/4/07 |
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Aircraft emissions Korea nuclear weapons verification |
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Mon |
4/9/07 |
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Graphics in science |
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Wed |
4/11/07 |
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Urban societies and sea level rise |
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Mon |
4/16/07 |
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Grad school basics Scientific writing style |
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Wed |
4/18/07 |
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Radar altimeters |
- 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.
- Discuss the differences between traditional measurements of
bathymetry and the use of satellite altimetry.
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Mon |
4/23/07 |
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Wed |
4/25/07 |
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Course Review: Papers due COB the last day of classes |
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Mon |
5/7/07 |
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Final exam |
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