• A. Richard Palmer Office: Biological Sciences Z1116, Phone: 3633
  (office hours: by appointment)

• Lynn Yip Office: Biological Sciences M354, Phone: 7132
  (office hours: by appointment)

Textbook:

• Oceanography: An Invitation to Marine Science, 2nd edition. 1996
  Tom Garrison; Wadsworth, Inc., Belmont, CA; ISBN 0-534-25728-3

For additional reading:

• Seashore Life of the Northern Pacific Coast (useful reference for BC coast)
  E.N. Kozloff
• Marine Biology: An Ecological Approach (nice overview of marine communities)
  J. Nybakken (3rd edition)

Tuesday 13 - Oceanography: Physical and chemical properties of seawater (ARP) ( lecture outline)
Thursday 15 - Movements of air and water 1: Winds & Waves (ARP) ( lecture outline)

Tuesday 20 - Movements of air and water 2: Air Currents (ARP) ( lecture outline)
Thursday 22 - Movements of air and water 3: Ocean Currents (ARP) ( lecture outline)

Tuesday 27 - Open oceans 1: Primary productivity-- energy into biomass (ARP) ( lecture outline)
Thursday 29 - Open oceans 2: Productivity patterns (lecture outline) & Plankton community (lecture outline)(ARP)

FEBRUARY

Tuesday 3 - Plankton (cont.) & Deep sea communities (ARP) (lecture outline)
Thursday 5 - Oceans at high latitudes: The Arctic and Antarctic (guest lecture, Ian Stirling, CWS) (no outline)

Tuesday 10 - Marine insects: Why are there so few? (guest lecture, George Evans, UA) (no outline)
Thursday 12 - MID-TERM EXAMINATION (40% of mark)

16-20 READING WEEK

Tuesday 24 - Tides: Gravitational games of the sun and moon (ARP) (lecture outline)
Thursday 26 - Rocky shores 1: Overview and inhabitants (ARP) (slides, no outline)

MARCH

Tuesday 3 - Rocky shores 2: Adaptations to physical stresses (ARP) (lecture outline)
Thursday 5 - Rocky shores 3: Biological interactions (ARP) (lecture outline)

Tuesday 10 - Coral reefs 1: Reef types and their origins (ARP) (lecture outline)
Thursday 12 - Coral reefs 2: Corals and reef growth, ecological interactions (ARP) (lecture outline)

Tuesday 17 - Soft bottoms (those of sand and mud) (LY) (lecture outline)
Thursday 19 - Estuaries, salt marshes, mangroves and beaches (LY) (lecture outline)

Tuesday 24 - Marine plants (LY) (lecture outline)
Thursday 26 - Marine natural products: Chemicals from sea life (LY) (lecture outline)

Tuesday 31 - Marine resources (LY) (lecture outline)

APRIL

Thursday 2 - Aquaculture 1: Introduction & fish (LY) (lecture outline)

Tuesday 7- Aquaculture 2: Seaweeds & invertebrates (LY)
Thursday 9 - Resource management & environmental concerns (LY) (lecture outline)

Thursday 23 - FINAL LECTURE EXAM 0900 (60% of mark; ALL students in gymnasium)

Wednesday 29 - DEFERRED EXAMINATIONS 0900 (0900, BioSciences CW306)

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