SO503 Spring 2012 Syllabus

(4/10/2012)

Course home page Shows & Readings (USNA only)

We will use EOS as the source for many of the readings for the course, and this syllabus will be updated as the semester progresses.

Tues 10-Jan-12     Course Introduction  
Wed 11-Jan-12     Lab 1 starts
  • ASCII files
  • Types on the computer
  • Filtering and smoothing
  • Trig on the computer
  • If-then-else
Tues 17-Jan-12 Lab   Lab 1 continues  
Wed 18-Jan-12     Lab 1 finishes  
Mon 23-Jan-12   Schulz research  Visit these web sites, and come to class ready to discuss the functions of a scientific society:

  • 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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    Tues 24-Jan-12 Lab Petruncio research MatLab version of Lab 1    
    Wed 25-Jan-12     MatLab version of Lab 1    
    Mon 30-Jan-12   (1320 Lee) Muller research 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
    Tues 31-Jan-12 Lab Anderson (EE) (1510 Steppe research)   GIS version of Lab 1    
    Wed 01-Feb-12     Guth research   GIS version of Lab 1    
    Mon 06-Feb-12           Lecture comp time    
    Tues 07-Feb-12 Lab       MatLab Wind
    • Using functions
    • Create Tables
    • Correlation coefficient and regression
    Wed 08-Feb-12             MatLab Wind    
    Mon 13-Feb-12         EOS--bring recent issues

    open_access_movement

    		   
    Tues 14-Feb-12 Lab In class Matlab exercise  
    Wed 15-Feb-12     Henderson research Time series analysis
    • Understand the definition of a time series.
    • Know the use of filtering, detrending, and anomaly computation
    • Understand the use of cross correlation.
    • Interpret a correlogram, in terms of time series periodicity and what the lags mean.
    Tues 21-Feb-12 Lab     Matlab Cross Correlation Cross correlation, making a table (fprintf), finding the max/min
    Wed 22-Feb-12         Matlab Cross Correlation  
    Mon 27-Feb-12     Matlab Cross Correlation  
    Tues 28-Feb-12 Lab   BWI, NAO, SOI in Matlab  
    Wed 29-Feb-12     BWI, NAO, SOI in Matlab Matlab hints:
    • .mat to save
    • Figure(1) and so on
    • Name scripts so if you email them you don't need the folder
    • Use external hard drive (but know it can be slow)
    • Matlab 2011 removes _ on data import (but is otherwise nicer)
    • Know where to look up a working loop, if statement, fprintf
    • if case within loop
    Mon 05-Mar-12     Web searches Understand the advantages of Web of Science compared to other online databases
    Tues 06-Mar-12 Lab   Matlab and Lidar Point Clouds  
    Wed 07-Mar-12 Paper topic (2-3 sentences) due before Friday at 1200 Matlab and Lidar Point Clouds    
    Mon 19-Mar-12       Government environmental data  
    Tues 20-Mar-12 Lab    Government environmental data  
    Wed 21-Mar-12      Government environmental data    
    Mon 26-Mar-12     Scientific Graphics  
    Tues 27-Mar-12 Lab   Coastal Flooding  
    Wed 28-Mar-12     Coastal Flooding  
    Mon 02-Apr-12      
    Tues 03-Apr-12 Lab Exam 2: In class Matlab exercise    
    Wed 04-Apr-12      
    Mon 09-Apr-12   Annotated reference list due GIS basics  
    Tues 10-Apr-12 Lab   Greenland: the directions are in the MICRODEM help file (update), and you must download this data file.  
    Wed 11-Apr-12     http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

    http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/dart.shtml

    		 
    Mon 16-Apr-12     CTD data plots
    • parse data file
    • str2num
    • Triple loop
    Tues 17-Apr-12 Lab
    Wed 18-Apr-12
    Mon 23-Apr-12
    Tues 24-Apr-12 Lab
    Wed 25-Apr-12
    Mon 30-Apr-12 Paper due
    Tues 01-May-12 Lab
    TBA Final Exam  

     

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