Oceanography

Catalog description

Oceanography is the study of the oceans through the lens of many different scientific disciplines. This course emphasizes geological, chemical, physical, and biological aspects of oceanography and how these systems interact and influence one another. Topics range from air-sea gas exchange and its influence on global climate, to the differences between waves and tsunamis and what causes them to occur, to life in the ocean and how it is influenced by geologic, chemical, and physical processes in the ocean.