2011

Today in class we leaned about the ocean and what physically happens to it all the time. First off, we learned about currents. There are two main causes of currents: the wind blowing over the surface of the water causes surface currents; and the changing water tempurature causes deep water currents because of the fact that warm water rises...

Today we went over a very interesting reading regarding the concept of hypoxia and anoxia. The article talked about two species, the crucian carp and the epaulette reef shark. Hypoxia is a lack of oxygen. These two species of fishes have adapted to live in conditions with very little oxygen. I found this article very interesting. The bulk of...

Changes in ecosystems. That was today's topic of conversation, involving changes in temperatures, currents, and waves. We learned about everything from how the moon changes the tides due to the pull of the moon's gravity, to how saltwater that is closer to the equator has a higher concentration of salt. The reason for this is the...

Today we focused on the chemical composition of seas water, climate change, tides, currents, and waves. I think that this lesson is one of the most important lessons of all when discussing marine ecosystems because it truly ties in to the ecological aspect of the ocean seeing as all the factors above directly affect marine life. When thinking about...

Today was a jolly good time!!!!. We went over currents, tides, wave, tsunamis, rogue waves, salinity, and polarity. We learned things like how tsunamis and rogue waves form, whats actually in the ocean water, and how and where ocean currents moved. We looked at how all of the stuff we learned is related to marine biology. We looked at...

Today was full of information on tides and currents in the ocean. We began by talking about the chemistry of seawater and how water is polar due to positive and negative charges it has. Also, there is a higher concentration of salt along the Equator because of the warmer temperatures evaporating water more often leaving salt behind. Then, we...

For marine biologist a myriad of factors affect their research. One simple one is the difference between high and lowtide. At hightide completly different species of animals may occupy the same environment as different animals which occupy the same environment at low tide. Currents also affect the research of marine biologist because as we learned fish have sensitive responses...

Day 4 out of the picture and tomorrow concludes the last day of our first week. So what I learned today was about tides, composition of ocean water, currents, and waves. There are two tides that occur each day high tide and low tide, each occur 2 times a day with with a total time of 12 hours and...

Today we learned about global warming and the composition of the ocean, as well as the waves and currents. We learned that the increase in temperature by a little bit less than a degree can affect seasonal timing for organisms as well as community interactions like mating. This relates to how the temperature can affect the ecological and marine...