Course Goals

Upon completion of the course:

• Students will have assessed ocean composition and how it interacts with the atmosphere.

• Students will have identified the various forms of life within the ocean.

• Students will have distinguished between the various ecosystems that constitute the ocean.

• Students will have hypothesized solutions to threats to the marine environment.

 

Course Objectives

Students will:

• illustrate the role plate tectonics plays in ocean formation and other geological processes

• measure the impact ocean chemistry has on various organisms and marine processes

• extrapolate geologic trends from database collections.

• identify various marine organisms

• identify through experimentation various processes necessary for marine life survival

• distinguish between marine ecosystems

• categorize marine life by ecosystem

• give examples of resources acquired from the ocean

• interpret threats to the marine environment

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Instructor Demo​

• ZOOM Demo: Learn more about how Marcy Swisher will be teaching this class.

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