ENVS 202/204L:  GENERAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Time:                     Lecture:  1:00 – 1:50 P.M., MWF

 

Location:               Carver Hall 1102

 

Labs:                      ENVS 204L Section 0101 – Tuesday, 8:00 – 10:50 A.M., Carver Hall 3115

 

                              ENVS 204L Section 0201 – Tuesday 12:30 – 3:20 P.M., Carver Hall 3115

 

Credits:                 3 Credits for Lecture; 1 Credit for Laboratory

 

Instructor:            Clement L. Counts, III

 

                             Carver Hall 2107

                             (410) 651-6027 (please do not leave voice mail messages)

                             e-mail:  clcounts@umes.edu

                             Hours:    9:00 – 10 A.M., MWF

                                           1:00 – 4:00 P.M. Th

 

Text:     Lecture:   Thurman, Harold V. and Alan P. Truillo.  2004.  Introductory Oceanography, 10^th Edition.  Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ).  608 pp.

 

Laboratory:  Pipkin, Bernard W., Donn S. Gorsline, Richard E. Casey and Douglas E. Hammond.  1987.  Laboratory Exercises in Oceanography, 2^nd Edition.  W. H. Freeman and Company (New York).  [PLEASE NOTE:  Do Not Use a laboratory manual with missing pages, particularly lab report pages.  Copyright laws prohibit the instructor from providing students with copies of those missing pages.]

                               

Description:    A survey of the basic physical processes of the world’s oceans.  Included are discussions of the history of man’s study of the ocean, the origin of life on the planet, tectonics, marine provinces as delineated by their depth, marine sediments and their connection to terrestrial aquatic systems, seawater and freshwater chemistry, air-sea interactions, oceanic circulation, waves, tides, the shores, coastal waters and processes, and marginal seas.  Major meteorological effects of air-sea interactions (El Niño – La Niña and the Southern Oscillation [ENSO]) are also presented.  The relationship of freshwater processes to the oceans and similarities of large freshwater systems (e.g., the Great Lakes) to the oceans are discussed.  Biological processes are not discussed as this information is the subject of other courses.

 

Exams:   There will be a total of four (4) examinations throughout the lecture portion of the course.  These include two examinations, a mid-term, and a final.  The exams are NOT COMPREHENSIVE and thus only the material covered since the previous exam will be tested.  Students are responsible for the material in the textbook, the handouts, and lectures.  Examinations may be composed of multiple-choice, true-false, and short answer questions.  There will be no term papers or essay examination questions.

 

The laboratory portion of the course will have two quizzes: one at mid-term and another at the final.  These will cover problems solved as part of the laboratory exercises and may include calculations.  Other quiz items may require identification of field equipment or other maritime/oceanographic equipment demonstrated in the laboratory.  Laboratory quizzes are NOT COMPREHENSIVE.  Exercises will come from those of the laboratory manual and from handouts.

 

Each lecture examination is worth 100 points and each laboratory quiz is worth 50 points.  Additionally, each completed laboratory exercise is worth 25 points.  Total points for the lecture (ENVS 202) and laboratory (ENVS 204L) portions of the course are thus:

 

                Exam I                                     100 points

                Mid-Term Exam                        100

                Exam III                                   100

                Final Exam                               100

                ENVS 202 TOTAL                      400

 

Laboratory Points are:

 

                Lab exercises before mid-term quiz                   225 pts

                Mid-Term quiz                                                   50

                Lab quizzes after mid-term                              150

                Lab Final Quiz                                                   50

                ENVS 204L TOTAL                                           475

 

While the laboratory total points may seem high, this gives you quite a bit of room to maneuver in successful completion of laboratory exercises.

 

Extra Credit:         There will be NO extra credit papers or projects.

 

Grading Scale:  Examinations and laboratory reports will not be graded on the “curve.”  The scale that will be used to determine grades is as follows:

 

                     90 – 100 %               =              A

                                80 -   89                   =              B

                                70 -   79                   =              C

                                60 -   69                   =              D

                                ≤ 59                         =              F

 

Keep in mind that your laboratory scores are calculated separately from the lecture and that it is possible to receive two different letter grades in these courses.

 

If you are having difficulty, I urge you to see me after class, make an appointment, or come by my office unannounced.  Do not let problems with the course materials build until they cannot be solved.

 

Registration:  The University has a policy, strictly enforced, which states that if your name is not on the official class roster, you are not registered.  Professors cannot pencil in grades on the class list or grade report forms.  Absence of a students name from the official lists usually means that fees

have not been paid.  The official policy of UMES on late registration is as follows:

 

1.             Students WILL NOT BE ADDED after the last add day and the Deans will no longer sign add slips for that purpose.

 

2.             Professors are not permitted to allow unregistered students to attend classes until their names appear on the official class list.

 

3.                    No student whose name is not on the official class list by 10 September 2002 will be permitted to continue taking a class or be allowed to register late.

 

 

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