Section Info: GEOL-103-01

Course Title: Oceanography

Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025

Term: Spring Semester 2025

Description: Because more than seventy percent of our planet is covered by oceans, the study of marine systems is crucial to our understanding of Earth History and life on the planet. We will examine chemical, physical, geological, and biological processes in the oceans at a variety of scales in time and space. We will explore how the Earth's oceans formed, how they provided the foundations for life, and how they continue to affect weather and climate, stabilize global chemical cycles, erode coastlines and provide access to resources. We will conclude the semester with a discussion of the human impact on the ocean environment including sea level rise, acidification, coral bleaching and over-fishing.

Distribution(s): II - Math & Sciences

Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate

Credits:4.00

Faculty	Phone	Email address
Alan Werner	413-538-2134	awerner@mtholyoke.edu

Meeting Dates	Method	Meeting days	Meeting times	Building name	Room	Frequency
01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025	Lecture	Monday and Wednesday	11:30AM - 12:45PM	DWGT - Dwight Hall	101	Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses
None

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Cross-listed Sections

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Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted	Capacity: 75	Enrollment: 68	Available: 0	Waitlist: 9

Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.