Spring 2006
MARS
452/MARS 512
Lab
PHYSICAL
AND CHEMICAL
OCEANOGRAPHY LABORATORY
Mondays
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 173: Sproul 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
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