• The exam time Saturday is 10 AM, not 10:30 as I had mistakenly put on the syllabus (it's fixed).
  
• I will be posting the HW 7 key at about 6 PM when  the internet homework closes. Lectuer students, to see it, go to the assignments link on the home page and scroll down to find a link to the key.  Just the answers will be there. Follow the link to the "Preview" version of Homework 7 to see the questions (they are the same as yours except they start at #3).
  
• The exam room (Kane 130) will be crowded on Saturday. Please bring only what you need: scantron. pencils, erasers. Calculators are OK but I don't  think you will need them.
• I said you didn't need to know scientific names of Harmful Algal bloom species, but for two of them there is  no common name: Pfiesteria, the fish killing dinoflagellate, and Heterosigma, which is a west coast species that causes something resembling "brown tide," but that term isn't used here on the west coast.
  

• Finish review exercise (chemistry) posted here

• The exam time Saturday is 10 AM, not 10:30 as I had mistakenly put on the syllabus (it's fixed).
• Study Guide 4 final posted. Some material added on HABs, otherwise it is just reformatted. It looks like a lot of material
• I will be posting HW 7 for internet section after class.
• Review will be brief in Thursday discussion. We will devote Friday lecture to review. For the internet review, we can go over the homework.
• I won’t try to give a one-hour lecture covering the last three weeks. I will just try to respond to material that you think you need help with. Please come ready with your questions.
• The exam room (Kane 130) will be crowded on Saturday. Please bring only what you need: scantron. pencils

• Hand out Study Guide 4
• Finish Lecture 28
• Review exercise (chemistry) to be posted here

• Revised syllabus posted. It rearranges the titles of the topics as we went through them, and adds a last online reading package on global productivity and Harmful Algal Blooms. I provide it mainly if the lectures are not clear and you need some additional explanation
  
• ”Red tides” are a misnomer. We use the term Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB) instead. Most harmful blooms are not visible, and only some of them would be red if they were visible. The most dramatic visible red bloom is harmless. If you see a bloom, it may not be harmful, and just because you don’t see a bloom, that doesn’t mean condition are safe.
  
• The makeup exam is in Room 205 Ocean Teaching Building. You need to have made arrangements with your TA if you plan to take it.
  

• Finish Lecture 27 (from slide 40)
• Lecture 27+
  
• Begin Lecture 28 (through slide 14)
  

• We have 3 more days of lecture, a (short) homework Thursday, and a review in lecture Friday. I will do review at 2:30 also for the internet section, but all students are welcome at both sessions.
• Remember the exam is at 10 AM Saturday downstairs in Kane 130, unless you have already arranged to take the makeup because of a time conflict.
• I have a draft study guide through today’s material that I will post after class if you want to get a head start on preparing for the exam.
• I’m going to try to go slowly through this lecture because you may find it complex. It integrates the pelagic biology principles we’ve gone over so far with some of the material on water movements from the last unit. Oceanography is a complex science because it puts together such a wide range of material.
  

• Continue Lecture 27 (through slide 40)
  

• No changes to Lecture 26, but added Lecture 26+ before class. Errors were fixed and lecture has been reposted.
• Draft Lecture 27 posted
• Extra credit DVD goes over some of the same material we covered in lecture about threats to coral reefs. It should help you review this subject for the exam a week form tomorrow.
• Hand this sheet in at the end of class to your TA (if she/she is here) or to me. It will not be graded closely, the TA’s will just make sure that your answers are in the ballpark, in other words that you were paying attention and understanding and filled in the assignment completely. If you can stay, I will take time at the end to go over the questions.
• I put the DVD on reserve in the OUGL media center. It needs to be catalogued, which may not happen until Monday. Please check online to see whether it is available before going to view it.
  
• I will post the assignment page online. Please download it before you go to view the video (be sure to right-click or control-click to download it rather than view it in the browser). I will post it as a text document instead of PDF in case you want to fill it out with your word processor & email it. It is due to your  TA at the final exam Saturday, or at the makeup if you are taking that.
• Homework 6 for section B is posted to open at 6 PM tonight. Deadline is 11 PM Tuesday, December 5. Homework 7 will be 10 points and will be posted early in the week to be  due Thursday night, December 7.
  

• Finish Lecture 26 (from slide 22)
• Video clip: Blue Planet Seasonal Seas (12:40)
  
• Intro to Lecture 27 (through slide 3)
• Extra credit DVD "Coral Reef Adventure" (43:00)
  

• No good textbook or online reading for this food web material, probably the worst failing of the oceanography textbook market. I have drawn some of the material in today's lecture from An Introduction To The World's Oceans / Keith A. Sverdrup, Alyn C. Duxbury, Alison B. Duxbury (also Fundamentals Of Oceanography / Keith A. Sverdrup, Alison B. Duxbury, Alyn C. Duxbury) in the UW library.
  
• Reposted Lecture 25 with  new slide 13 added
  

• Finish Lecture 25 (from slide 12)
• Lecture 26 (will review last 2 slides Friday)
  

• Revised Lecture 24 was posted just before class yesterday
• Final Lecture 25 just posted
  

• Finish Lecture 24 (from slide 29)
• Film: Plankton & the Open Sea (22:00)
  
• Begin Lecture 25 (through slide 12)
  

• Reminder: save Friday Dec. 1 at 2:30 in Kane 210 for extra credit video showing
  
• Today is a brief introduction to the basics of marine biology. Garrison is fairly good on this material, although he organizes I differently than I would. On the syllabus you see me jumping all around. You may just want to read Chapters 13-15 right through.
• Tomorrow we will learn to identify representative species of organisms
• I would have done this material at the start of the unit but for the short week for the Thanksgiving holiday.
  

• Begin Lecture 24 (through slide 29)
  

• ISR’s posted
• I made some changes & additions to Lecture 23 beyond slide 13 where I left off yesterday. I have posted the revised lecture.
• There is a 5-question, 5-point, multiple-choice extra credit quiz on WebQ for students who are keeping up with the class over the Turkey Day weekend.
  
• It closes Monday night November 27 at 11 PM.
• You are allowed to log in only once. Don't try to look it over and then plan to come back and take it later.
• There is a 15-minute time limit from the (first and only) time you login. Study this week's material before beginning the quiz.
• You cannot save your work and come back to it later.
• You cannot go back and change your answers after you submit them.
• Good studying!
  

• Finish Lecture 23 (from slide 13)
• Coral reef video clips

My first week in the Virgin Islands was spent on St. Thomas for the Coral Task Force Meeting.  While the bureaucratic process can be a bit stuffy and tedious, it is fascinating to observe the policy making decicisions from the highest level...  During the intense week, we managed to escape for one day on a sailing & snorkeling tour of ... St. John island.  St. John is more laid-back and lush hosting a very large park system.  We snorkeled 3 reef areas around the island to compare developed vs. undeveloped bays and the effects of last year's coral bleaching event.  It is rather shocking and disheartening to see so much dead coral.  Obviously we have a LOT of work ahead of us, but with an issue this urgent we are bound to lose most of the corals before any action will even be drafted.  Many people question how I can still be engaged in this field if there is virtually no hope for healthy coral reefs in the future.  Most people don't understand that corals aren't merely intricate organisms that conversation and tree-hugging biologists care about for beauty, inspiration, and biodiversity.  If the economic value (food, storm protection, shelter, etc.) were balanced into the equation I would wager that coral reefs would be far more prioritized on a global scale.

... I am especially looking forward to public meetings with the local fishers engaging them in perceptions of the marine reserves.  I've heard that in the past lives have been threatened and meetings always erupt into heated arguments.  Fishers have been deceived in the past by government coastal management agency (where my office is located) and that conflict arises among the fishers themselves.  Two of my favorite human resources so far are 2 local fishers.  One is an elder and has seen a dramatic decline over the past decades.  The other is a younger Puerto Rican raised in St. Croix who is considered a "traitor" among his folk for acknowledging that over-fishing takes place.  They are going to take me down to the docks to have me meet the fishers fairly soon... Even though the sea life is rather depleted, I do see eels, octopus, lobsters, flounders, rays, sea turtles, nurse sharks, on short snorkels.  While Cam was getting dive certified he even saw a rare seahorse.

• 4 slides added to end of Lecture 22. Added slides for lecture 22 posted as Lecture 22+

• Finish Lecture 22 (from slide 23)
• Begin Lecture 23 (through slide 13)
  

• Reminder: save Friday Dec. 1 at 2:30 in Kane 210 for extra credit video showing
  
• Exam grades are posted. The exam was worth 70 points with 5 extra credit points. Average was 43 = 3.1 GP. Section A average 45, Section B 41.4. High was 67, low was 12. On the test, 56 is a 4.0, 42 is a 3.0, 28 is a 2.0.
  
• This is the time of quarter when most students have caught on to the grading scheme, if they hadn’t before. The possible point total right now (including exam 3 & homework 5) is 365. 292 points or more is a 4.0 pace, 219 is a 3.0, 146 is a 2.0.
  
• Put another way, you can still earn up to 140 more points on homeworks and tests, and 10 points extra credit. So look at your current point total, once you get it, and figure out how may more points you need to reach your goal. If you are at 250 or above, theoretically you can still get a 4.0
• New syllabus with online readings for this week. There will be online readings for next week too.
• This unit is basically about biology, but to get there we need to learn a little chemistry first. We will look at corals Tuesday & Wednesday & go on to other biology next week. There is  much more detail in the online readings than you will be tested on, but I posted them because Garrison has almost nothing on this topic. One reading is from today’s issue of the New Yorker magazine and is especially readable and informative.
  

• Begin Lecture 22 (through slide 23)
  

• The study guide was posted online after class. The first part is unchanged, but I have added practice exercises for you to work in class tomorrow. The TA’s have the answer keys. I will post the key for the preactice exercises tomorrow.
• Notice the exam is only 70 points instead of 80. So exam 4 will be 110 again. But you will have 2 hours for that if you need it.
• I made some slight changes to Lecture 20 (including supplying missing slide numbers) & reposted it along with Lecture 21. Back up & get a running start at slide 17.
  

• Finish Lecture 20
• Lecture 21 Animations:     Slide 9     Slide 21 A & B    (Require Quicktime)
  

• Draft study guide posted Monday. Final guide tomorrow
• Lecture 19+ added online today
  

• Finish Lecture 19 (from slide 21)
• Lecture 19+ T-S example
• Begin Lecture 20 (through slide 22)
• We will go over types of estuaries in more detail Wednesday, with a focus on Puget Sound
  

• Reminder: Exam 3 on Friday
• Review lecture 18+ posted
• Individual student reports for exam 2 posted
  

• Review lecture 18+
• Begin Lecture 19 (through slide 21)
  

• Finish Lecture 18 (from slide 10)

• Individual student reports for exam 2 to be posted after all makeups are complete (Wednesday?)
• Revised syllabus posted
• Slight corrections to Lecture 17 posted
  
• Plan to bring a calculator to section on Thursday
  

• Finish Lecture 17 (from slide 18)
• Begin Lecture 18 (through slide 10)
• Video clip of Skookumchuck (link on Lecture 18 slide 9)
  

• If you have a conflict with the time of the final exam, please notify your TA by today so we can schedule a makeup time
• Exam 2 average was 68 = 3.1 GP. Scores are posted via the grades link on the web page.
• Section A average was 73 = 3.3
• Section B average was 63 = 2.9
• As before, 88 is a 4.0, 66 is a 3.0, 44 is a 2.0.
• High was 104, low was 10 (wrong version?)
  

• Film “Tides of the Ocean (16:00)
• Begin Lecture 17 (through slide 18)
  

• Final studyguide 2 is posted online (as full pages). Changes or additions are in italics. One bulleted item is crossed out.
• Consider this study guide like a take-home exam, except that you don’t know the exact wording of the questions & answers. But you should have the chance to do the deeper thinking about the scenarios I present, so that on the test you can just concentrate on interpreting the wording of the questions & answers.
• Review exercise from today's class is posted via a link on the lectures page.
• After class I will post the answer key to Section B Homework 4 via a link on the assigments page.
  

• Hand out final study guide 2
• Finish Lecture 16 (restart at slide 21)
• Nova & NASA Niño videos
  
• Review exercise on monsoon & Somali upwelling
  

• There is an overload of information about Niño on the web. I will post some non-technical sites that you can go to if you are having trouble making sense of this lecture as online reading 5 on the syllabus.
  
• Final study guide to be posted tomorrow
• Error in Lecture 16 slide 22 fixed & reposted
• I will finish Lecture 16 tomorrow and postpone studying density-driven currents. Revised syllabus posted.
  

• Finish Lecture 15 (from slide 24)
• CNN Niño video 1997 (8:43)
  
• YouTube Niño video clip www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibo40FQjG40
• Lecture 16 (through slide 22)
  

• I am continuing to extend the time we spend on ocean currents. I have posted a revised syllabus. I will probably postpone density currents until the next unit.
• I also posted a short online reading about the Gulf Stream. I will probably have another one tomorrow about El Niño.
• Many students asked me to provide a study guide sooner than Wednesday. I have posted a draft study guide on the lectures page to let you get started. It shouldn’t change much except for adding the material that we will cover this week. I will finalize it by Wednesday.
  
• I have tried to make it more specific so you know better what to study and what kind of questions you should expect. I also give you the "thinking question" stuff you need to think about in advance so you can mull it over and work on it in groups.
• I designed it so that the material from waves, shorelines, winds, and currents all fits together in the same geographic region so you can learn the relationships among them.
  

• Present study guide 2
• Lecture 15 (through slide 28)
  

• Remember: I will have office hours today after class. I will also hold a help session Monday in 425 Ocean Sciences Bldg as soon as I can get there after lecture. The main purpose of this session will be to help with difficulties you may have on Homework 4. Come prepared with questions.
• This is the amazing elastic unit—I’m taking out material, but I’m stretching what’s left over more time to try to make sure it sinks in for you.
• I am posting the preview version of Homework 4 for the internet section this afternoon and we will get the WebQ up ASAP. I plan to post a key to Homework 3 as well.
  

• Go over "Current Concepts" flow chart available online as PDF or HTML
• Bill Nye Currents video clip
• Lecture 14
  

• Homework 4 for the internet section (preview version, anyway) will be posted Friday morning. The WebQ will follow shortly after that. IT IS PRETTY CHALLENGING.
• Get an early start if you can.
• Come to my office hours for a help session Friday 2:30 Kane 210 if you can.
• Go to TA office hours next week if you can.
• We will make it due Tuesday 11 PM to leave you time to study for the exam Friday Nov. 3
  

• As I said yesterday, this is the most technically difficult material in the whole course. I saw what looked like some looks of bafflement on your faces yesterday. I’m not surprised. I’m going to try to go through this slowly so you can follow it. But you won’t really grasp it the first time, you will need to go over it tonight and work with it tomorrow in discussion.
• I posted a revised version of Lecture 12 Tuesday night, with reworked and added material after slide 20 the expliain geostrophic winds better. I will go over that first before starting Lecture 13.
• I made some mostly cosmetic revisions to Lecture 13 and posted it before class today.
• I will do my best to post Homework 4 for Section B Thursday. I want it to be due Tueday to give you time to prepare for the exam next week.
  

• Finish Lecture 12 (from slide 21)
• Video clips of satellite weather photos & message in a bottle
  
• Lecture 13
  

• I posted a slightly revised version of Lecture 11
• One line added to slide 23
•  Only other changes are cosmetic (cleaning up arrows & circles) and some italics for emphasis
• Homework 3 for Section B went online last night with a deadline of Wednesday night. However, I neglected to post a link to it on the assignments page. It is there now.  I will extend the deadlne until Thursday 11 PM. See Epost for additional discussion.
  
• Environmental Education and Careers Opportunities Fair  10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Thursday, October 26, 2006 Mary Gates Hall Commons. Visit http://www.environment.washington.edu poeadv@u.washington.edu or call (206) 616-2461
  

• Coriolis survey
• Coriolis & Simpsons video clips (See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2LzXCrDHuI)
• Finish Lecture 11 (from slide 23)
• Calvin slides
• Begin Lecture 12 (through slide 25)
  

• Homework 3 for Section B will be online tonight. I wil extend the deadlne until Wednesday night. 
• As a voluntary optional assignment, tonight write down your expectation of how the water would move as it drains form your sink or tub. Then try it and see how it moves and compare that to your expectation. If you wish, repeat with he same sink/tub or a different basin to see whether the results are consistent. I will ask for your results at the start of class Tuesday.
  

• Show photos of cruise Sunday
  
• Review last 2 slides of Lecture 10
  
• Video clip: Waves-x-Pacific-2 (1:15) group velocity
  
• The Friday lecture probably went by pretty fast. What was it about? Why do we care? Here’s an example. Video clip: Condition Black (7:51)
• Video clip: Miracle Planet (9:11)
• Begin Lecture 11 (through slide 22)
  

• Those who signed up for cruise, I emailed you instructions & posted a link to some instructions on Thursday’s Ship’s Log
• On the posted exam scores pages, the lower score is the correcct one (sorry for the confusion). The score listed as exam1adj is an artfact of the first scoring run and you should disregard it. Students who took makeup exams, we still need to recalculate your scores with the revised answer key.
  
• Exam scores 88 = 4.0, 66 = 3.0, 44 = 2.0
• 112 total points (including HW) = 4.0 pace; 84 = 3.0; 56 = 2.0
• Reposted Lecture 9, now 4 slides to a page
• I  apologize  for the delay in getting you your summed scores from the exams and homeworks. Partly it is delayed because 2 TA's are at sea. Please stand by.
• Assignment 3 for the internet also may be delayed because of the cruise.  We will extend the deadline if necessary to give you time to work on it. The preview version is posted so you can start working it on the word-processor.
  

• Show photos of a flooded spit on Bainbridge Island provided by student Chris Randish
• Quick review of Assignment 3 results
  
• Lecture 10
  

• Instructions for participants in the cruise this Sunday are posted here.
  

• I have office hours in Kane 210 at 2:30 Friday. If you want to talk more about the exam or go over it with me, that is a chance for you to do that.
  
• I fixed the numbering error on Version A of exam 1 and ran the scoring again. At the same time, I raised the value of some 1-point questions (on Hawaii/Aleutians & the cross-section of the NW coast) to 2 points.  This raised the average of both versions to about 66-68 points and made the value of the exam 110 points rather than 100. Thus according to my grading scheme, the class average on the exam was about 3.0. I thought this change was a more realistic way to reflect the fact that the exam was too long than to just give everyone the same number of points.
  
• I will probably reduce the value of the next exam to  110 points so the course total will still be 500 (+ extra credit). I will have fewer questions worth more points each so you have more time to think about the questions. I want to continue asking "thinking" questions. But I will try to make the wording clearer and make the study guide more useful. I thank you again for the constructive tone of the complaints you have sent me.
  
• The normal post-exam procedure we like to follow is:
• Post the raw exam scores from scantron from a link on the "Grades" page. I will do that after class (delayed tonight until 10 PM). They are listed by last 4 digits of your student number for confidentiality. If your last 4 is the same as someone else's, contact your TA. I sent all grades to the TA's as well.
  
• Post the Individual Student Reports (ISR's), which list the answers you put for each questions and indicates the ones you got wrong. They are listed by last 4 within section.
• I can't post the exam keys for security reasons. If you want to go over the exam, print your ISR and arrange to see your TA at office hours. TA's have your test sheets and keys to all the exams, which you can look at but not take home.
  
• TA's have grade files that sum your homework and exam scores and tell you how you are doing overall. They will post these online or send them to you by last 4.
• Because of the exam problems, we are about 1 day behind the syllabus. I will post a revised syllabus with deep-water waves moved to Friday.
  

• Announcements & questions about Exam 1
  
• Finish Lecture 9 (slide 12) with three added slides at end (revised version posted)
  

• There was a numbering error in version A of the test and we are re-running the scantron scoring to fix it. I expeect the 20-point difference between the averages  for A & B versions to disappear. Then we can take a better look at how to handle the difficulties with the exam.
  
• No changes to Lecture 8, which was posted as a draft
• Today’s film is not on reserve in the library, but you can watch it down in the basement of Kane by appointment with a signed slip from me. Sorry it's a hassle. Everything you are responsible for is in the lecture, but this film helps with visual instruction.
  

• Finish Lecture 8 (slide 32)
  
• "Beach, A River of Sand" film (20:00)
• Begin Lecture 9 (through slide 15)
  

• I have posted revisions to the syllabus, including Online Readings #3 to accompany Lecture 8
  
• Exam grades are in & very bad. Average was 44 = 2.2 grade point. It is not unusual for me to see low grades on the first test of the quarter, and especially the first test of the school year. It can take time to adjust to my class and to being back in school. But even if those adjustments are necessary, they could not account for these test results. That need for adjustment clearly applies to me as well. This was not a fair test and I take the blame. I propose to do something about it, but I just got these results right before class and  it is too soon to figure out what to do. Please stand by. TA's have the grades if you can't stand the suspense.
  
• Cruise instructions will be posted later this week. So far it looks like we have room for everyone who has signed up so far. 5 students who signed up did not submit personal data forms and we can’t hold their places without that form.
  

• Lecture 8
• Beach erosion TV  news coverage video (Hurricane Gordon)
• Online video of Katrina storm surge http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7392209151146546355&q=Katrina+storm+surge&pr=goog-sl&hl=en
  
  

• There are 31 signed up for the cruise Oct. 22, which is probably more than we can take, but some may drop out. I will leave the signup open, but anyone who signs up from now on is on a waiting list.
• To go on the cruise you need to fill out two sides of a form. Those of you who have signed up, to hold your place, I would like you to get this form to me at the exam on Friday. I have paper copies in class today.
• Kathy Newell is the Chief scientist, we are not going outside of Puget Sound, the date is 10/22
• For online students, Ihere is a link to electronic versions of the forms on today’s ship’s log. Please print them, fill them out, and bring them to the exam. You want Personal Data Forms, Individual Science Party Member Data Form, sides one & two. Be sure to complete both forms and submit at the exam on Friday to hold your place.
• http://www.ocean.washington.edu/2004/services/vessels/forms.html
  

• Study Guide for exam 1 posted via Lectures page
• Tomorrow is review for the exam. We can’t go over all the material again in 1 hour. Instead, read the study guide & come tomorrow with questions on material that is not clear.
• Be sure to bring a scantron sheet Friday. There will be multiple versions of the exam with the same questions, but with the order of the questions and/or answers different.
  
• The only approved reasons for missing an exam are illness & emergency or an approved conflict such as an athletic event.
  
• I encourage you to use Epost as much as possible. Please check Epost before posting or emailing a question to avoid duplication.
• Note there will be numerous questions (usually with the word except) that will ask you to choose the wrong answer from among four right answers.
• Some of the multiple choice questions will have long answers that you need to interpret, rather than short ones that you just match right & wrong.
  

• Peace Corps guest speaker
  
• Finish Lecture 7 from slide 16
• Video excerpt: Atwater (2:43) out-take from Cascadia
• Video excerpt: America’s Tsunami—Are We Next (Discovery 12/19/05, 14:26)
  

• It doesn't look like we will get to "rogue waves" in this unit as scheduled for tomorrow on the syllabus. I will move it to next unit.
• There is lots of online material about tsunami, but I didn't find one good reading at the right level and containing substantial material that is not in Garrsion.
  
• 22 signups for cruise so far—I will take a few more to allow for cancellations. I will need to turn in names later this week, and you will need to fill in a form, so don’t procrastinate. Cruise signup.
  

• Announcement from Rebecca, International Student Volunteers
• Finish Lecture 6 from slide 16
• Lecture 7 through slide 15
• Video: Clip from "America's Tsunami" re: Lituya Bay
  

• I have posted revisions to the syllabus, including Online Readings #2 to accompany Lecture 6
  
• Reminder: Homework 2 Section B deadline is 11 PM Tuesday
• Sometimes we get requests for extra credit. We have an opportunity for a limited number of students to earn extra credit. The opportunity is a day-long cruise on Puget Sound aboard the UW’s ocean-going research vessel, the Thomas G. Thompson, which is at the dock today. The cruise is on Sunday Oct. 22, meeting at UW at about 6:30 AM and returning at about 5 PM.
  There is room for about 25 students, we think. I will make sure to offer one other extra credit opportunity before the end of the quarter for students who don’t go on the cruise. I don’t know a fair way to choose if more students than that want to go, except first-come first-served. Follow this link to access the signup list I have created on WebQ: Cruise signup.
  

• Lecture 6
• Microphone was dead for about 20 minutes of the beginning of the lecture, so podcast may be silent until that time.
  
• Got through slide 15, then graphics mysteriously were blanked out. I will restore the graphics and continue from that point Tuesday.
• Video: Cascadia Ring of Fire (13:42)
  

• I have office hours in this room after class
• Quakefest Wed. Oct 11 11-3 (www.uwquakefest.com)
• Don’t get used to having extra time on assignments. We still plan to start enforcing end-of-class deadlines. We would like you to review the material from lecture before coming to section and be ready to think as you fill in the blanks. Don’t just assume we will adjust to your level of preparation; we want you to adjust your level of preparation to the material at hand.
• Assignment 2 for section B is posted in preview version. Deadline will be Tuesday night 11 PM. We will email over the weekend when the WebQ is  up.
• We will do a little more tectonics review Monday before starting tsunami.
  

• Collect Assignment 2A
  
• Lecture 5
  

• The changes in B subsections are done. The email I sent lists the students affected. If your name is not on the list, your subsection status is unchanged. Please check MyUW to verify your subsection & look at the web page to ID your TA. Student were initially charged a $20 fee for this change, but the Registrar has agreed to cancel & remove it. Let us know if the fee stays on your tab.
• One B student reported that he could not submit the homework. It turned out that he exceeded the length limit (number of CHARACTERS, not words) for one question (WebQ highlights problem questions in yellow). If you have problems, please check that you have filled all the boxes that are required and that you have not exceeded length limits.
• A couple of students have had trouble viewing Lecture 3 online. Try downloading (right-click or control-click, save file as) the pdf file to your computer rather than viewing it in your browser, where memory limits sometimes become a problem.
• Homework 2 for Section B wil be posted as soon as we can enter it in WebQ.
  

• Section A Assignment 2
  

• Question about how agates form. It is believed that water flowing through volcanic ash picks up silica & re-deposits it in layers as crystalline quartz
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agate
• Reminder: You will do assignment 2 in discussion section tomorrow. Please bring your copy of Garrison if you have one.
• I updated the syllabus for Friday.
• > Do we need to use complete sentences when submitting our hw for section B?  For example, the conversions from celsius to degrees do not really need an explanation because our work is shown. Answer: compete sentences not required, calculations are sufficient.
• The changes in section B should be underway. I apologize for the delay. This wil affect about 40 of you. Please check MyUW to verify your subsection & TA. There have been enough glitches that I will wait until they are complete to announce the changes.
  

• Lecture 4
  

• I will be including some material about sediments in the syllabus because I realized they provide evidence helpful to understanding plate tectonics. I’ve also added to the syllabus some reading from Chapter 5 in Garrison, which is pretty good.
• I am continuing to present pieces of geological evidence that we need to understand plate tectonics starting tomorrow. The additional material on sediments will also serve that purpose.
• I apologize for the uncertainty about B sections. I have been waiting for a replacement for the A TA who is leaving, but it seems like there won't be one. I will assign sections Wednesday. Until then, please just fill in "B" for your section on the homework. RS

• Lecture 3
  

• Preview version of Homework 1 for Section B is posted via the Assignments page. We recommend that you study this page and compose your assignment using a word processor before entering and submitting your results via WebQ. Be sure to submit descriptive answers in your own words.
  
• The WebQ version of Homework 1 for Section B is also posted via the Assignments page. The deadline for submitting your results is 11 PM Thursday, October 5.
  

• Lecture 2
  

• Introduce Michelle Townsend, Oceanography Student Services Specialist, who can answer questions about possibly majoring in ocean
• Revised Lecture 0A posted (changes to homework description)
• Revised syllabus posted with changes to homework & readings
• Musical TA's: TA Karlyn has been offered a really good job & will be leaving. She will be here through next week. TA AJ, who is now at sea, will return and move from Section B to Section A to take her place after next week. I will update the web page at that time.
  Internet students will be redistributed next week among the remaining three TA's & sections BB, BC, BD.
• Assignment 1 for Section A was done in class yesterday and, because time ran out, was due at lecture today.
• Assignment 1 for Section B will be posted shortly. We will send an announcement with deadline.
  

• Finish Lecture 0
  
• Lecture 1
  

• Lecture 0 (podcast)
• Corrections to slide on grading posted after class
  

• For Section A, we have decided that "homework" assignments will be worked on and handed in at the Thursday discussion sections. There will be 7 15-point assignments. (No assignments at pre-exam review Thursdays as identified in the syllabus.) You can work together and your TA will help. Please bring your textbook and a calculator if possible, or share with a friend.
  
• The password for accessing podcasts via the links provided is: AQOCEAN101A06. You don't need to enter a username.
  

• Homework 1
  

• Introductions
  
• Did not have time to finish Homework 1; hand in at lecture Friday
  

• Read Chapter 1 page 9 & 18–19 and Appendices III & IV for tomorrow.
• We will be posting office hours for the TA's after class. Lecture TA's generally hold office hours on Thursdays at 3:30 after their discussion sections. Usually office hours are held in Mary Gates Commons.
• I have not taught Ocean 101 in several years and never in this large lecture format. So this class is something of an experiment. I hope you will give us a chance, stay with us, and help us to make this work. We hope to learn a lot from you about how to make this format work well for this class.
• Final exam is Saturday Dec. 9, which is different from what your MyUW page says. Let your TA know if you have a conflict.
• Please bring your textbook and a calculator to the discussion section tomorrow and every Thursday. We will do some warmup calisthenics to get you in shape for oceanography. TAs will take attendance at discussions.

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• Dwayne Coy of Thomson Publishers spoke about their policies concerning buying the textbook in electronic format
• Lecture 0 (correction to TA email addresses on slide 2 posted after class)