Resources
Teaching
Biological Oceanography OCG 561 Fall 2010
Instructor: Dr. Susanne Menden-Deuer
This core course in Biological Oceanography provides an introduction to Ocean Ecology and how it pertains to the study of Oceanography. Focus is on planktonic organisms, biogeochemical cycles and the relationship of primary production to the physical and chemical environment. The course combines lectures, with laboratory exercises and 3 research cruises to Narragansett Bay.
Files
Computer code and simulations will be added in the near future. Check back soon
Data from R/V Endeavor cruise 490
Video
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Journal Club
A temporary repository of the current activities of our journal club.
| Spring 2011 | |||
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| Date | Discussion Leader | Title | |
| 03/03/2011 | Caitlyn | Pages 1 - 8 of The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms | link |
| 03/10/2011 | Henry | Pages 9 - 16 of The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms | link |
| 03/31/2011 | Liz | Pages 17 - 23 of The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms | link |
| 04/14/2011 | Hyewon | Pages 24 - 36 of The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms | link |
| Fall 2010 | |||
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| Date | Discussion Leader | Title | |
| 10/05/2010 | Susanne | Abandoing Sverdrup's Critical Depth Hypothesis on phytoplankton blooms | link |
| 10/19/2010 | Henry | Size-structured planktonic ecosystems: contraints, controls and assembly instructions | link |
| 11/02/2010 | TBA | TBA | link |
| 11/16/2010 | Liz | Plankton community properties determined by nutrients and size-selective feeding | link |
| Spring 2010 | |||
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| Date | Discussion Leader | Title | |
| 01/20/2010 | Susanne | Capacity of herbivorous protists to control initiation and development of mass phytoplankton blooms | link |
| 01/29/2010 | Caitlyn | Complex seasonal patterns of primary producers at the land-sea interface | link |
| 02/05/2010 | Amanda | Effects of small-scale turbulence on lower trophic levels under different nutrient conditions | link |
| 02/12/2010 | Will | Evaluation of osciallting grids and orbital shakers as means to generate isotropic and homogeneous small-scale turbulence in laboratory enclosures commonly used in plankton studies | link |
| 02/19/2010 | Henry | Phytoplankton in a changing world: cell size and elemental stoichiometry | link |
| 03/05/2010 | Liz | Attack is not the best form of defense: lessons from harmful algal bloom dynamics | link |
| 03/12/2010 | Henry | A dinoflagellate exploits toxins to immobilize prey prior to ingestion | link |
| 03/19/2010 | Lucie | The toxic dinoflagellate Dinophysis acuminata harbors permanent chloroplasts of cryptomonad origin, not kleptochloroplasts | link |
| 04/09/2010 | Liz | Feeding by raphidophytes on the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. | link |
| Fall 2009 | |||
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| Date | Discussion Leader | Title | |
| 09/24/2009 | Susanne | Formation of harmful algal blooms cannot be explained by allelopathic interactions | link |
| 10/08/2009 | Liz | The strain concept in phytoplankton ecology | link |
| 10/22/2009 | Caitlyn | Inter-strain differences in nitrogen use by the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi, and consequences for predation by a planktonic ciliate | link |
| 11/05/2009 | Will | Edge gradients provide evidence of ecological interactions in planktonic thin layers | link |
| 11/19/2009 | Henry | Chlamydomonas swims with two 'gears' in a eukaryotic version of run-and-tumble location | link |
| 12/03/2009 | Amanda | Effects of increased pCO2 and temperature on the North Atlantic spring bloom | link |