Oceanography Seminar
Course Fall 2011 course number: 16:712:605
The Southern Ocean
and Antarctica
Instructors: Liz Sikes (room 114C ext
2-3257) Silke Severmann (room 303D ext 2-3487) Josh Kohut (rm 316 ext 23496)
Course Requirements
and outline: click here
Class meets Tuesdays from 11:00- 12:00 in
Lipman House
Syllabus as of December 1, 2011
To see the video of the migrating penguins click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4&feature=relmfu
And how they did it(!!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzhDsojoqk8&feature=relmfu
Week 1 September 6
John Wilkin and Silke Severmann
Introduction
to class, discussion of topics intent class meeting times etc.
Week 2 September 13 Resource faculty member: John Wilkin (room 214C ext 2-3366) and
Josh Kohut (room 316 ext2-3496)
Student presenter: Travis Miles
Reading: Sokilov, S and Rintoul, S., 2002. Structure of
Southern Ocean fronts at 140 E. Journal
of Marine Systems, 37 (2002) 151–
184.
If
you are interested in seeing some pictures from the Oct ’91 SR3 cruise on The
M/V Aurora
Australis (mentioned in the Sokolov
and Rintoul paper)
Click on these: wave on the Fantail, running
from the wave, putting in
pressure sensors, sampling
for CFC’s, royal penguins at sea, wind and waves from the bridge.
Voluntary
optional supplemental reading (just glance at the figures!!!):
Reading: Belkin, I. M. and Gordon, A. L., 1996. Southern Ocean
fronts from the Greenwich meridian to Tasmania. J. Geophys. Res. 101,
3675-3696.
Week 3 September 20 – Resource faculty
member: Oscar Schofield (room 318C 2-3426)
Student presenter: Nicole Couto
Readings:
S. T. Gille, 2002, Warming of the Southern Ocean Since the 1950s, SCIENCE, 295, 1275-1277
W. R. Fraser, W. Z. Trivelpiece, D. G. Ainley and S. G. Trivelpiece, 1992
, Increases in Antarctic penguin populations: reduced competition with
whales or a loss of sea ice due to environmental warming? Polar Biol , 11, 525-531
M. P. Meredith and J. C. King, 2005, Rapid climate change in the
ocean west of the Antarctic Peninsula during the second half of the 20th
century, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,
VOL. 32, L19604, doi:10.1029/2005GL024042
Week
4 September 27 Resource faculty
member: Josh Kohut (room 316
ext2-3496) and Liz Sikes (room 114C ext 2-3257)
Student
presenter: Travis Miles
Reading: Sallée, J. B., K. G. Speer, and S. R. Rintoul (2010), Zonally asymmetric
response of the Southern Ocean mixed layer depth to the Southern Annular Mode Nature Geoscience, 3, 273-279.
(click here for pdf) also, -read the News and Views that goes along
with this by Gille Click here for pdf
Week 5 October 4 Resource faculty member: Liz Sikes (room 114C ext 2-3257)
Student presenter: Katie Harazin
Reading:
Anderson, R. F., S. Ali, L. I. Bradtmiller, S. H. H. Nielson, M. Q. Fleisher,
B. E. Anderson, and L. H. Burckle , 2009 Wind-driven upwelling in the Southern
Ocean and the deglacial rise in atmospheric CO2, Science, 323, 1441-1448.
Week 6 October 11 Resource faculty member: Rob Sherrell (room 111D, ext 2-3403)
Student presenter: Anna
Hermes
Reading: C. L. De La Rocha, P. Bescont,
A. Croguennoc, E.Ponzevera, 2011, The silicon isotopic composition of surface waters
in the Atlantic and Indian sectors of the Southern Ocean, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75 ,5283–5295, (2011).
Week 7 October 18 Resource faculty member: John Reinfelder (Environmental
Sciences: reinfelder@envsci.rutgers.edu)
Student
presenter Nicole Couto
Readings: P.
D. Tortell, C. D. Payne, Y. Li, S. Trimborn, B. Rost, W. O. Smith, C.
Riesselman, R. B. Dunbar, P. Sedwick, and G. R. DiTullio, 2008, CO2
sensitivity of Southern Ocean phytoplankton, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 35, L04605, doi:10.1029/2007GL032583,
2008
(click here for
pdf of the file)
Suggested
supporting paper: K. R. Arrigo, D. H. Robinson, D. L. Worthen, R. B.
Dunbar, G. R. DiTullio, M. VanWoert, M. P. Lizotte, 1999, Phytoplankton
Community Structure and the Drawdown of Nutrients and CO2 in the
Southern Ocean, Science, 381, 365-367.
Week 8 October 25 Resource faculty member: Silke
Severmann (room 303D ext 2-3487)
Student presenter: Katie
Harazin
Readings
1)
N.
Cassar M. L. Bender, B. A. Barnett, S. Fan, W. J. Moxim, H. Levy II, B.
Tilbrook, (2007), The Southern Ocean Biological Response to Aeolian Iron
Deposition, Science, 317, 1067-0170
(click
here for pdf of article and the comment and reply)
Readings
2) A. Tagliabue, L. Bopp, and
O.Aumont, (2009), Evaluating the importance of atmospheric and sedimentary iron
sources to Southern Ocean biogeochemistry, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 36,
L13601, doi:10.1029/2009GL038914, 2009
(Click
here for pdf of the article)
Week 9 November 1 Resource faculty member: Josh Kohut (rm
316 ext 23496)
Student
presenter: Benedetto Schiraldi
Readings:
Primary reading: J. M. Klinck and M.
S. Dinniman, (2010), Exchange across the shelf break at high southern
latitudes, Ocean Sci., 6,
513–524, 2010
Secondary/supplemental
reading: A.
H.Orsi, C. L.Wiederwohl, (2009) A recount of Ross Sea waters, Deep-Sea Research
II 56
778–795, (2009)
Week 10 November 8
Resource faculty member: Liz Sikes (room 114C ext 2-3257)
Student
presenter: Benedetto Schiraldi
Reading:
Sigman, D. M., M. P. Hain, and G. H. Haug
(2010), The polar ocean and glacial cycles in atmospheric CO2
concentration, Nature, 466, 47-55.
Week 11 November 15 Resource faculty member: John Manderson (NECF/NMFS/NOAA) (john.manderson@noaa.gov)
Student
presenter: Laura Palamara
Readings:.
H. Osterblom and U. R. Sumaila, Toothfish crises, actor
diversity and the emergence of compliance mechanisms in the Southern Ocean,
Global Environ. Change (2011), doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.04.013
O. T. Hogg, D. K. A. Barnes, H. J. Griffiths, (2011) Highly
Diverse, Poorly Studied and Uniquely Threatened by Climate Change: An
Assessment of Marine Biodiversity on South Georgia’s Continental Shelf. PLoS
ONE 6(5): e19795. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019795
Griffiths
HJ (2010) Antarctic Marine Biodiversity – What Do We Know About the
Distribution of Life in the Southern Ocean? PLoS ONE 5(8): e11683,
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011683
November 22 (Thursday class schedule) no class.... enjoy
Thanksgiving break
Week 12 November 28:
Resource faculty member: (Adam Kustka, Rutgers,
Newark email: kustka@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
Student presenter: Katie Harazin
NOTE Special DATE and time class meets Monday
this week only
Assigned readings:
G. R. DiTullio,
J. M. Grebmeier, K. R. Arrigo, M. P. Lizotte, D. H. Robinsonk, A. Leventer, J.
P. Barry, M. L. VanWoert & R. B. Dunbar, 2000, Rapid and early export of Phaeocystis antarctica blooms in the
Ross Sea, Antarctica. Nature, 404, 595-598.
Suggested
supporting paper
re-read:
K. R. Arrigo, D. H. Robinson, D. L. Worthen, R. B. Dunbar, G. R. DiTullio, M.
VanWoert, M. P. Lizotte, 1999, Phytoplankton Community Structure and the
Drawdown of Nutrients and CO2 in the Southern Ocean, Science, 381, 365-367.
Please note this was the supporting paper on Oct 18...
please go over it again to refresh your memory
Week 13 Dec 6 No Class, Fall AGU (do some science!)
Week 14 Dec 13 Resource faculty member: Jim Miller (room 111D ext 2-3349)
Student moderator:
Benedetto Schiraldi
The assignment is
a bit different this week: please read the two papers below and come to class with
specific examples of how these ideas relate to the science we have read about
the Southern Ocean (if you can have a pro versus con issue that will be good).
Readings: S. Sherwood, 2011 Science controversies past and
present, Physics Today October 2011, 39-44.
Readings: R.C. Sommerville,2011, Communicating the science of
climate change, Physics Today October 2011, 48-53.