Blue Planet: Introduction to Oceanography

Course Description

In this course, Prof. Edwin Schauble gives 27 video lectures on Introduction to Oceanography. This class provides a general introduction to geological, physical, chemical, and biological processes and history of Earth's global oceanic system.

Prerequisites
•High school science background
– Math: algebra & geometry, graphs
– Metric units
– Geography: maps, Earth's major features, longitude & latitude
– Chemistry: elements, atoms, molecules, chemical equations
– Physics: matter, density, waves, velocity, energy, gravity
– Biology: genus, species, evolution, plants & animals

Original Course Name: Earth & Space Science 15: Introduction to Oceanography.

Note: Some clips and images may have been blurred or removed to avoid copyright infringement.

Blue Planet: Introduction to Oceanography

Ocean floor map showing sea levels decreasing 120 m. Sea levels are set to fall over millions of years, making the current rise blamed on climate change a brief interruption of an ancient geological trend, scientists said. "If we humans still exist in 10, 20 or 50 million years, irrespective of how ice caps are waxing and waning, the long term ... is that sea level will drop, not rise," said lead author Dietmar Muller of the University of Sydney.

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Video Lectures & Study Materials

# Lecture Play Lecture
1 Lecture 1: Introduction to Ocean Interactions Play Video
2 Lecture 2: Earth and the origins of our oceans Play Video
3 Lecture 3: The shape of the ocean floor Play Video
4 Lecture 4: Shape of the ocean Play Video
5 Lecture 5: Earth's morphology, magnetism and dating Play Video
6 Lecture 6: Plate Tectonics Play Video
7 Lecture 7: Plate Tectonics 4 Play Video
8 Lecture 8: California tectonics, marine sediments Play Video
9 Lecture 9: Marine sediments Play Video
10 Lecture 10: Sediments and Seawater Play Video
11 Lecture 11: Sediments and Seawater Play Video
12 Lecture 12: Seawater Play Video
13 Lecture 13: Seawater, pH and Wind Play Video
14 Lecture 14: Seawater, pH and Wind Play Video
15 Lecture 15: Wind, Currents Play Video
16 Lecture 16: Currents and Winds Play Video
17 Lecture 17: Currents Play Video
18 Lecture 18: Currents and Waves Play Video
19 Lecture 19: Breaking waves, tsunami & tides Play Video
20 Lecture 20: Tides, Marine Systems, Photosynthesis and Productivity Play Video
21 Lecture 21: Photosynthesis, Respiration, Productivity, Habitats & Plankton Play Video
22 Lecture 22: Phytoplankton, Diatoms, Dinoflagellates, Coccolithophores, Radiolaria & Ostracods Play Video
23 Lecture 23: Ostracods, Copepod, Picoplankton, Migrating Plankton, Multicellular life, Origin of Animals, Nekton Play Video
24 Lecture 24: Nekton and Benthos Play Video
25 Lecture 25: Marine Resources Play Video
26 Lecture 26: Climate Change Play Video
27 Lecture 27: Climate Change Play Video

Comments

Displaying 5 comments:

hira fatima wrote 7 years ago.
I found these lectures very helpful. I learnt a lot. Thank
you so much

shivam pandey wrote 10 years ago.
i like the teaching style...the topics covered.

shivam pandey wrote 10 years ago.
Great Depth of Knowledge.......thank you..

Cliff Martinka wrote 12 years ago.
Have attended online the Blue Planet lecture series. Would
love to have the remainder of the lectures available. As an
over-the-hill ecologist, I find the trends in new science
fascinating.

Cliff Martinka wrote 12 years ago.
Have attended online the Blue Planet lecture series. Would
love to have the remainder of the lectures available. As an
over-the-hill ecologist, I find the trends in new science
fascinating.

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