Anne A.Sturz, Ph.D.

University of San Diego

Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Professor Department of Marine Science and Environmental Studies

Founders Hall 114

voice phone 619 260-4545

email asturz@sandiego.edu

On-going research projects:  
Deception Island, Antarctica:  distribution of nutrients and dissolved iron in sea water

Salton Sea, California:  the mudpots project

Recent publications: 

Sturz, A., S. Gray , K. Dykes, A. King, E. Quiroz and J. Radke (2003) Seasonal changes of dissolved nutrients within and around Port Foster Deception Island, Antarctica.  Deep Sea Research Vol. 50: 1685-1705.

Gray, S., A. Sturz, M. D. Bruns,  R. Marzan, D. Dougherty, H. Law, J. Brackett and M. Marcou (2003) Composition  and Distribution of Sediments and Benthic Foraminifera in a Submerged Caldera after 30 years of Volcanic Quiescence. Deep Sea Research  Vol. 50: 1727-1751.

Sturz, A. A., Koehler, C., Compton, T., and Prichard, J. (2004)  Long-term Mud Pots Monitoring:  An ideal project for undergraduate research. Procedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Pacific Division.

Sturz, A. A., (2005)  Some implications of seasonal water column stratification at Deception Island and the Bransfield Strait.  Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancemtn of Science Pacific Division.

Svenson, H., D. A. Karlesn, A. A. Sturz, K. Backer-Owe, D. A. Banks and S. Planke (accepted for publication January 2007) Processes controlling water      and hydrocarbon compositon in seeps overlying the Salton Sea Geothermal System, California, USA.  Geology Vol 35: 85-88.

 Fall 2006                                                                                                                                                                   Links

MARS 120 Introduction to Physical Oceanography	MWF  1:25 - 2:20	ST 129	MARS 120
MARS 120 Lab	W  2:30 - 5:30	ST 175	MARS 120 Lab
ENVI 109 Introduction to Physical Geography	TTh  10:45 - 12:05	ST 230	ENVI 109
ENVI 109 Lab	M 2:30 - 5:30	ST 262	ENVI 109 Lab

Spring 2006

MARS 452 Physical and Chemical Oceanography	MWF  11:15 - 12:10	ST 230	MARS 452
MARS  452 PCOce Laboratory	M  2:30 - 6:30	ST 174	MARS 452 Lab
MARS 512 Physical and Chemical Oceanography	MWF  11:15 - 12:10	ST 230	MARS 512
MARS  512 PCOce Laboratory	M  2:30 - 6:30	ST 174	MARS 512 Lab

Fall 2005     

MARS 120 Introduction to Physical Oceanography	T Th  7:45 - 9:05	ST  230	MARS  120
MARS 120 Lab	W  2:20 - 5:20	ST 175	MARS 120 Lab

Program Links

Ethics and general advising

Course Links:
http://www.dreamwv.com/primer/page/s_pertab.html
http://rainbow.ldeo.columbia.edu/datacatalog.html
http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/
http://www-odp.tamu.edu/index.html
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tectonics.html
http://ingrid.ldgo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.GEOSECS/
http://interridge.org/
http://www.meteorologie.eu.org/mothy/index.html
http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Atlas/SO/Deckblatt.html
http://tryfan.ucsd.edu/
http://ioc.unesco.org/odinafrica/
http://www.oceanportal.org/
http://cdip.ucsd.edu
http://www-mlrg.ucsd.edu/calcofi.html
http://www.lternet.edu/
http://www.lternet.edu/sites/pal/

Research  Links:

Real-time Water Data in California  Salton Trough
http://water.usgs.gov/ca/nwis/rt

Recent earthquake activity
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

The Salton Sea
http://visearth.ucsd.edu/VisE_Int/aralseahtml/SaltSea.intro.html

San Deigo Association of Geologists
http://www.sandiegogeologists.org/

Ocean and Land Color
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html
    for true color scenes, near real time, link through Data Sets, Images         http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS/IMAGES/IMAGES.html
    then link to Explore the workd at 4 km resolution
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgibrs/seawifs_subreg.pl
    then click on the area of interest
or link through Most Recent Images for false color composites
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS/IMAGES/SEAWIFS_GALLERY.html
  then link through the Gallary page to SeaWifs views of major citys
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS/HTML/cities.html
and scroll down to San Diego

link to USD main page