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MASC 617 OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES

Credits: 
2

This is a practical course aimed at equipping students with wide range of techniques employed in obtaining, analysing, interpreting and making inference on data from the marine environment. Students will be taken through rigorous practical exercises with hands-on experience which will ground them in areas such as Measurement of dynamic properties (e.g. oceanic circulation, currents, waves, tides, drift measurements); Marine charts and navigation; Navigational systems; Phytoplankton sampling, processing and identification; Measurement of primary productivity; Zooplankton sampling, processing and identification; Measurement of secondary productivity; Sampling benthic fauna and flora; Identification of Fish and vertebrates; Measurement of hydrographic properties; Water sampling devices; Monitoring coastal processes; Measurements in palaeoceanography; Use of radioactive isotopes in oceanography; and Role of satellites in oceanography.