Puget Sound Oceanography: Estuarine Processes

SYLLABUS (links removed)
MONDAY
WEDNESDAY
FRIDAY

1/3 Class structure and overview. Introduction the geography and forcing of Puget Sound: Basins, Rivers, Atmosphere and Ocean effects

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ref: Cannon (1983), Cokelet et al. (1990)

1/5 Visit to the Puget Sound Model
Old Ocean Building (map)

ASSIGNMENT: read Ebbesmeyer et al. (1988)

1/7 Geological setting

Guest Lecturer: Ben Sheets

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1/10 How tides are forced, and the origin of the different constituents.

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1/12 a visit of the idealized estuary lab tank (MacCready lab, OSB 147 - on the ground floor, at the end of the hallway to the left of the main doors).

NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION

cool animation of simple tidal flow

1/14 Tides in Puget Sound Discussion

ASSIGNMENT: RQ#1 write a 1-2 page "Reading Question" essay on Mofjeld and Larsen (1984)

** email this to us by 9 AM before class **

1/17 Holiday

1/19 Physics of the tidally-averaged estuarine circulation, the Knudsen Relation, the MoSSea numerical model of Puget Sound

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ref: MacCready and Banas (2010)

1/21 Brief discussion of the Residence time, and An introduction to nutrient loading in estuaries

ASSIGNMENT: read Residence time PDF

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1/24 Primary Production

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ref: Levinton Ch. 9

1/26 Primary Production Discussion

ASSIGNMENT: RQ#2 on Cloern & Jassby (2010)

** email this to both of us by 8:30 AM before class **

1/28 Zooplankton

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1/31 Zooplankton Discussion

ASSIGNMENT: RQ#3 on Roman et al. (2005)

** email this to both of us by 8:30 AM before class **

2/2 Intro to Eutrophication, Hypoxia and Ocean Acidification

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ref: Feely et al. (2010)

2/4 Eutrophication and Hypoxia

Guest: Jan Newton

ref: Newton et al. (2007)

Puget Sound Science Update: Ch. 2a Biophysical Condition of Puget Sound

2/7 Biological Response to Hypoxia and other stressors

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2/9 ETM: the Estuarine Turbidity Maximum

Physics PPT, Bio PDF

ref: Geyer (1993)
ref Sanford et al. (2001)

2/11 Fish Ecology

Guest: Tim Essington (SAFS)

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ASSIGNMENT: RQ#4 on any two of:
Beck et al. (2001), Gillanders et al. (2003), Heck et al. (2003)

2/14 Intertidal Processes (no JK)

Guest: Neil Banas (UW/APL)

ref: Banas et al. (2007)

2/16 Climate Variability: overview statistical terms (EOF,PCA) (no JK)

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ref: Bretschneider et al. (1985)

2/18 Climate effects in Puget Sound (no JK)

Guest: Nate Mantua (UW/JISAO) PPT

ASSIGNMENT RQ#5 on: Moore et al. (2008)

2/21 Holiday

2/23 HABs: Harmful Algal Blooms

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2/25 HABs

Guest: Stephanie Moore (NOAA) PPT

ref: Moore et al. (2009)

2/28 Final important topics!

Modeling the Salish Sea: PPT

ref: Sutherland et al. (2011)

3/2 TALKS

  • Iris Kemp (20)
  • Dan Elefant (20)

3/4 Overview, Q&A, Evaluations (no PM)

3/7 TALKS

  • Amanda Hacking (10)
  • Tiffany Huang (10)
  • Liz Ewings (10)

3/9 TALKS

  • Dan Bascom (10)
  • Greg Kowalke (20)
  • Liz Tobin (20)

3/11 TALKS

  • Liz Weidner (10)
  • Shaun Bevin (20)
  • Fred Goetz (20)