Welcome to the Oceanology Home Page
Dr. Sean A. Fanelli

"In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught."
- Baba Dioum, Senegalese ecologist commenting on the numerous roads being constructed for logging in the Amazon rainforest.



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Class Requirements 

Lecture Schedule

Homework

Study of the Ocean

 Origin of the Ocean

Maps of the World

 General Ocean Facts

Bathymetry / Tectonic Plates

Bathymetry / Continental and Ocean Margins

Sediments

Seawater

Wind Belts

 

globe

Coriolis Effect

Ocean/Climate

Ekman Spiral

Ocean Currents

Wind Waves

Tsunamis

Tides

Coasts

Geologic History of LI

Marine Life

Taxonomy & Marine Autotrophs

Marine Invertebrates

Marine Vertebrates

Marine Communities

Ocean Zones

Uses of the Ocean

Ocean Pollution

 

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