by Dr. Wolf Berger, Professor of Oceanography
Outline of an introductory course in Oceanography for middle school,
high school and college, with material for complementing existing courses.
| Intro |
Coping with a sea of change [.pdf - 450 KB]
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| Part 1 |
Discovering the ocean [.pdf - 322 KB] Of fish and ships and people |
| Part 2 |
A portrait of the ocean planet [.pdf - 2,080 KB] Elements of ocean literacy |
| Part 3 |
Life at the edge of a fertile sea [.pdf - 2,473 KB] The birthplace of marine science |
| Part 4 |
Of coral reefs and atolls [.pdf - 2,103 KB] Stone gardens of tropical seas |
| Part 5 |
The Zen of the beach [.pdf - 2,735 KB] Musings on a river of sand |
| Part 6 |
Unraveling the Gulf Stream puzzle [.pdf - 1,666 KB] On a warm current running north |
| Part 7 |
Sardines and the California Current [.pdf - 1,451 KB] On a cold current running south |
| Part 8 |
Meadows and deserts of the sea [.pdf - 1,060 KB] On the elusive concept of ocean productivity |
| Part 9 |
Of whales and sharks and giant squid [.pdf - 1,606 KB] The big, the strange and the powerful |
| Part 10 |
The deep, the cold, the dark [.pdf - 1,143 KB] Life at the end of the line |
| Part 11 |
Seeing in the dark [.pdf - 1,787 KB] A sound approach to exploration |
| Part 12 |
Mountains, trenches, sunken islands [.pdf - 2,390 KB] The great revolution in Earth science |
| Part 13 |
The ocean’s memory of the ice ages [.pdf - 2,131 KB] The endless cycles of climate change |
| Part 14 |
Abyssal memories [.pdf - 2,324 KB] A thousand holes in the bottom of the sea |
| Part 15 |
Global warming and the ocean [.pdf - 1,105 KB] Human impact on a greenhouse planet |
| Epilog |
The great trends in exploration and the challenges ahead [.pdf - 37 KB] |
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Glossary [.pdf - 115 KB] |
© 2007 by Wolf Berger.
All rights reserved.
Updated: October 3, 2007