The Ocean Environment Lab Manual

LABORATORY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

LAB 1 Navigation and Bathymetry

LAB 2 Part I Minerals
Part II Igneous Rocks
Part III Sedimentary Rocks
Part IV Metamorphic Rocks

LAB 3 Introduction to the Seafloor and Plate Tectonics

LAB 4 Seafloor Spreading and Data Analysis

LAB 5 Thermohaline Circulation and Density

LAB 6 Salinity and Dissolved Oxygen

LAB 7 Part I Surface Currents
Part II Hurricanes

LAB 8 Nutrients and CDOM

LAB 9 Waves and Coastal Processes

LAB 10 Tidal Pattern Discovery and Tide Charts

FIELD TRIP LAB Coasts and Salt Marshes Field Trip and Lab Report

APPENDIX A Conversions Review and Worksheet

APPENDIX B A Brief Guide to Microsoft Excel

APPENDIX C Writing a Laboratory Report

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