Subjects for student presentations

Instructions, please read carefully

Prepare a fifteen minutes presentation on descriptive/ dynamical aspects of one of the following topics, based on textbooks, net, and other sources chosen with the help of the TF. Show the presentation to the TF and get feedback before presenting in class. Email the final presentation file (in pdf or windows-compatible PowerPoint only) to the TF by 7am on the day of your presentation. Files will be posted to course home page after your presentation. If you are interested in presenting a subject that's not listed, please write or talk with the instructor.

Subjects

Subject are listed roughly in the order in which they will be presented in class.

  1. Water masses, regional oceanography
    1. Atlantic ocean, and North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW): Ian Bollinger
    2. Southern ocean, Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW), Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW): Clara Blattler
    3. Marginal seas, Mediterranean water in the Atlantic, Levantine Intermediate Water (LIW), Adriatic/ Ionian/ West Mediterranean deep water: Judith Hubbard
    4. MODE (18 degree) waters
  2. Making observations
    1. Satellites: infrared, scatterometer, altimeter.
    2. Ship-based observations: CTD, STD, Nansen bottles, inverting thermometers: Adam Traina
    3. Floats: profiling floats, ARGO, SOFAR, RAFOS, ALACE, PALACE, APEX
    4. Moorings and current meters
  3. Ocean bottom topography and geometry
    1. The ocean bottom topography, mid-ocean ridges, hydrothermal vents: John Thorlin
    2. The evolving oceans: ocean's geometry over the past billion years: Talya Havice
  4. Major currents
    1. Gulf stream, recirculation, and other other western boundary layer currents
    2. The antarctic circumpolar current (ACC): Alison Nugent
    3. Somali current and the monsoons: Karen McKinnon
    4. Abyssal circulation and deep western boundary currents: Trevor Petach
    5. Indonesian through-flow and Equatorial currents and undercurrents.
  5. The oceans and climate variability
    1. El Nino's global teleconnections: African drought, South American floods, North American rains: Greg Santoni
    2. Thermohaline circulation: Sarah Eggleston
    3. The oceans and anthropogenic CO2: Gween Miller
  6. Sea ice
    1. Antarctic Sea Ice and Polynyas : Meghan Purdy
    2. Thinning Arctic sea ice (and global warming)
  7. Waves and tides
    1. Tides: Nicole Irwin
    2. Tsunamis:
    3. Wind waves
  8. Climate
    1. The fate of Greenland ice under global warming
    2. West Antarctica and the antarctic ice shelves: