Comparisons of theoretical models with field studies conducted using submersibles and deep ocean drilling. Overview of essential ocean and atmospheric dynamics, where appropriate. Applications of these techniques to fisheries, aquaculture, oceanography, population and evolutionary studies, and other areas of science. Students conduct experiments analyzing genetic variation at the intra- and interspecific level, including one experiment of their own design. Techniques covered include DNA extraction and quantification, PCR, DNA sequencing, RFLP analysis and cloning.
Topic varies each year.
Offered at Friday Harbor Laboratories. Problems which require application of the models to chemical distributions in the ocean. The function of rivers and river basins in transporting materials to the oceans and their importance in biogeochemical cycles. Origin of water and water routing within drainage basins, sources and modification of dissolved and particulate materials in transport, ecological theory, and estuarine mixing zone transformations. The use of stable isotopes as a means of studying biogeochemical cycles in the ocean, specifically carbon, nitrogen and sulfur cycles.