oceanography

Class Assignment Resources Page : Oceanography

Oceanography - Technological Advances

List of possible topics

Dr. Sylvia Earle	Dr. Robert Ballard	Charles Wyville Thompson, 1830-1882, British oceanographer	Charles Darwin (H.M.S.Beagle)
Jacques Cousteau	Other Scientists	H.M.S. Challenger	Diving Suit
Diving Chamber	Bathysphere	Bathyscape	Scuba
Aqualung	Jim Suit	Johnson Sea Link	Alvin - JASON
Underwater Robots	Remote Sensing	LandSAT	GeoSAT
SeaSAT	NOAA

Book Titles from your Library Media Center

REF 333.7 ASH	Ashworth, William. The Encyclopedia of environmental studies. New York : Facts on File, c1991.
REF 550 EAR	Dasch, E. Julius. Earth sciences for students. New York : MacMillan Reference USA, c1999.
REF 503 RAI	Illustrated science encyclopedia (23 volumes). Austin, Texas : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1997.
REF 550.3 WOR	Lerner, K. Lee and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. World of Earth Science. Detroit: Gale, c2003.
577.7 LON	Longhurst, Alan. Ecological geography of the sea. New York: Academic Press, c1998.
REF 509.22 NOT	Narins, Brigham. Notable scientists from 1900 to the present. (5 volumes)Farmington Hills, MI : Gale, c2001.
REF 551.46 MCC	McCutcheon, Scott and Bobbie McCutchon. The Facts on File Marine Science Handbook. New York : Facts on File, c2003.
333.91 TES	Tesar, Jenny. Threatened oceans (Our fragile planet series). New York : Facts on File, c1991.
333.91 TES	Tesar, Jenny. Food and water : threats, shortages and solutions (Our fragile planet series). New York : Facts on File, c1992.

Web Sites to help you with your research:

National Science Foundation web site - Links for Kids (Ocean Sciences Page)

Dr. Sylvia Earle

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/council/eir/bio_earle.html

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/bookmarks/earle/

http://scuba.about.com/library/weekly/aa031000.htm

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/ear0pro-1

http://literati.net/Earle/

http://www.aapg.org/explorer/2003/04apr/earle.cfm

Dr. Robert Ballard

http://www.mysticaquarium.org/ballard/home/

http://www.homeschool.com/articles/ballard/default.asp

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/council/eir/bio_ballard.html

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/ballard.htm

http://www.eds.com/jason/j_kit_bios.shtml

http://www.washingtonspeakers.com/speakers/Speaker.cfm?SpeakerID=1981

http://www.eds.com/jason/j_kit_bios.shtml

Sir Charles Wyville Thompson, 1830 - 1882, British Oceanographer

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/C/ChallengE1x.asp

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0811245.html

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0848555.html

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/t/thmsnc1w1.asp

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=47034

http://www.oceansonline.com/challenger_ex.htm

http://www.nahste.ac.uk/pers/t/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P1684/

http://www.fact-index.com/c/ch/challenger_expedition.html

Charles Darwin (H.M.S. Beagle)

http://www.aboutdarwin.com/

http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/darwin/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin

Jacques Cousteau

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9706/25/cousteau.obit/

http://www.aquanet.com/features/cousteau/cousteau.htm

http://myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=cousteau

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/history/breakthru/media/7_challenge.html

Other Scientists

H.M.S. Challenger

http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/challenger.html

http://www.oceansonline.com/challenger_ex.htm

http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_018900_hmschallenge.htm

Diving Suit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_suit

http://www.fact-index.com/d/di/diving_suit.html

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blscuba.htm

http://www.thinkquest.org/library/site_sum.html?tname=28170&url=28170/222.html

Diving Chamber

http://www.divingheritage.com/bellskern.htm

http://www.dciem.dnd.ca/publications/factsheets/f01_e.html

http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/diving%20bell

http://www.thehds.com/publications/bell.htm

Bathysphere

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/beebe.html

http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_010100_bathysphere.htm

http://www.fact-index.com/b/ba/bathysphere.html

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/dsv.htm

Bathyscape

http://www.fact-index.com/b/ba/bathyscape.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathyscaphe

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bathyscape

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/b/ba/bathyscape.html

Scuba

http://scuba.about.com/

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blscuba.htm

http://inventors.about.com/b/a/099646.htm

http://www.floridascubahound.com/history_of_scuba.htm

Aqualung

http://www.diegoweb.com/diving/dive_history/howto.html

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1170/is_n2_v28/ai_20341175

Jim Suit

http://www.divingheritage.com/jim.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/titanic/salvage/ssde.html

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/jim_suit.html

http://www.divernet.com/history/jim1097.htm

Johnson Sea Link

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/technology/subs/sealink/sealink.html

http://www.psubs.org/disaster/JohnsonSeaLink.html

http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02sab/logs/aug21/media/footage.html

http://www.dailypress.com/dp-sub0626,0,4099009.photo

http://www.biology.duke.edu/johnsenlab/gallery/insidechamber.html

Alvin (submersible) - JASON Project

http://www.whoi.edu/marops/vehicles/alvin/index.html

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/bal0bio-1

http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_003900_alvin.htm

http://www.oceansonline.com/alvin.htm

http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/mar/

http://www.jasonproject.org/

http://www.whoi.edu/VideoGallery/alvin.html

Underwater Robots

http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218392058&language=english

http://www.neurotechnology.neu.edu/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5353014

http://www.cdnn.info/industry/i040301/i040301.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=943641

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~jkubica/BRAIN.html

Remote Sensing

http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/start.html

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/rs/home.rxml

http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/learn/tutorials/fundam/fundam_e.html

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mjff/homepage.htm

http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/remote/remote_f.html

LandSAT

http://landsat7.usgs.gov/index.php

http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sge/landsat/landsat.html

http://www.landsat.org/

http://ls7pm3.gsfc.nasa.gov/

http://www.earth.nasa.gov/history/landsat/landsat.html

http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/service/gallery/fact_sheets/earthsci/landsat/landsat7.htm

GeoSAT

http://leonardo.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/QuickLooks/geosatQL.html

http://ibis.grdl.noaa.gov/SAT/gdrs/geosat_handbook/

http://gfo.bmpcoe.org/Gfo/default.htm

http://www.grdl.noaa.gov/SAT/gdrs/geosat.html

http://gfo.wff.nasa.gov/

SeaSAT

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/seasat/

http://leonardo.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/QuickLooks/seasatQL.html

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/seasat.htm

http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/org/history/history20_e.html

http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/data/satsens/sats/seasat_e.html

NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)

http://www.noaa.gov/

http://www.sec.noaa.gov/

http://www.nos.noaa.gov/

http://www.education.noaa.gov/

http://www.lib.noaa.gov/

http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/

http://www.csc.noaa.gov/

http://www.oar.noaa.gov/

Report Format:

Cover Page: Should include: Title, Your Name, Class, Teacher, Period.

Body of the Report: 2-3 pages typed (Double-spaced), written in your OWN WORDS.
Include pictures and/or diagrams (2-3)
Bibliography

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