University of San Diego   Marine Science and Environmental Studies
Spring 2006
   MARS 452/MARS 512 Lab
PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY LABORATORY
Mondays 2:20 - 6:20 PM                             ST 174

Lab I     Coastal water mass movements

Week 2    1/30           Introduction MARS 452 Lab,  Laboratory Safety, Introduction to the California Bight

Week 3    2/6              Meet in ST 173, GIS Lab: Waves, historical data base
                                             Please bring a disc or jump stick so that you can save your data!

Week 4   2/13            Meet in ST 173:  Global Ocean Tide Models, Topex/Poseidon  link to tides lab

Week 5  2/20             Meet in ST 173Sproul and CalCOFI seawater properties data
                                   
  link to Currents Lab CTD data instructions
                                    
link to CalCOFI web site  http://www-mlrg.ucsd.edu/calcofi.html

Week 6  2/27             Meet in ST 173:     manipulating satellite-derived data
                                     link to lab instructions   Currents Lab      
 
                                     link to general report writng guidelines
                                     link to Coastal Water Mass Movements report guidelines                                  
                                   California Bight water mass movement  Lab report due Friday due March 10

Week 7  3/6                Lecture Exam 1 in Lab
                                   Spring  Break   March 13 - 17

Lab II Seawater chemical composition
                                  
Week 8      3/20           
Meet in ST 173:   seawater dissolved nutrients, oxygen, chlorophyll

Week 9      3/27            Meet in ST 174 for duation of semester
                                     Conservative ions: Cl, Ca, Mg  Titrations
   link to seawater chemical analyses

Week 10    4/3             Titrations continued.    

Week 10   4/10            Lecture Exam 2 during lab time

Week 12    4/18            No lab - Easter holiday

Week 13    4/24            Calcium  and  Magnesium by atomic absorption spectrometry

Week 14    5/1              Calculations and data summary; California Bight seawater chemical composition summary
                                     
MARS 452 Seawater Chemical Composition

Week 15    5/8
             Calculations and catchup

Week 16    5/15           Seawater chemical composition lab report due Monday May 15

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