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MASC 613 CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The Chemical Oceanography course covers a broad range of areas in relation to chemistry and chemical processes of the marine environment. Students are introduced to basic chemical and geochemical processes in the ocean. Students will be made to understand the...

MASC 612 AQUATIC HEALTH AND IMPACT STUDIES

The course aims at equipping students with social and scientific issues relating to aquatic health. This includes all aquatic environments. Topics to be treated cover Factors affecting aquatic health; Pollution and environmental toxicology; Impacts of...

MASC 611 BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The course will cover broad areas concerning biological processes in the ocean and how organisms interact with each other as well as the physical marine environment. Aspects to be treated include Scope of Biological Oceanography; Phytoplankton and zooplankton...

MASC 456: Deep Sea Biology

Environmental characteristics (Physical environment of the deep sea. Organisms of the deep sea, zonation patterns and distribution of deep seas organisms. Adaptations of deep-sea organisms.  Metabolic processes of deep-sea organisms. Transport of food to...

MASC 452: Marine Sedimentology and Petrology

The course shall cover broad topics in sedimentology such as Marine sediments (terrigenous, biogenous, authigenous/hydrogenous, cosmogenous), Coastal and deep sea sedimentation process (Lithification and diagenesis), Coastal sedimentary environments (deltas,...

MASC 449: Marine Invertebrates & Vertebrates

Taxonomic diversity of major invertebrate groups. Invertebrate life cycle and larval forms. Important migratory species: marine reptiles (turtles); marine birds (population trend and status; bird diversity, bill shape and pursuit patterns, range and country...

MASC 448: Ocean Dynamics and Regional Oceanography

Ocean mass-heat budgets. Ocean fluid dynamics – Differential equations describing fluid dynamics. Equations for fluid motion in a rotating frame of reference. Coriolis Effect, The Ekman boundary layer and transport, Ekman pumping, geostrophy, Rossby and...

MASC 447: Principles of Coastal Engineering

The coastal environment, history of coastal settlements, coastal zone management and coastal defence principles. Coastal morphology. Coastal system behaviour, factors influencing coastal systems. Wave theory, surf zone process. Tidal theory, coastal water...

MASC 446: Tropical Marine Ecosystems

This course shall cover broad tropical marine and coastal ecosystems such as Coral Reefs, Seagrasses, Wetlands including estuaries, lagoons, and mangroves; shores (muddy, sandy and rocky), beach rocks, sand dunes etc.  Distinguishing features of the...

MASC 445: Earth Observation Sciences and GIS

The course involves Overview of Earth observation Science and geo-informatics; Hardware and software requirements; Introduction to concepts in open source programming; Digital Image Processing; Applications – Monitoring Sea Surface Temperature;...

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