Every student conducting research in Oceanography will enroll in this course. Students in the various oceanography curricula present their thesis research. Laboratory assignments are elementary problems in oceanography and meteorology. Sturctured Fortran programming as applied to elementary problems including oceanography and meteorology.
Course emphasizes the use of the computer as a tool in oceanography problem-solving.
Use of various software packages for graphics, scientific visualization, statistics and numerical computation. Basic biological, geological, and chemical processes in the ocean. Bioacoustics, deep scattering layers, and bio-deterioration. Chemical composition of the ocean. Basic probability and statistics, in the air-ocean science context.