Environmental Oceanography: Topics and Analysis

by Abel, Daniel C; McConnell, Robert L

• ISBN13: 9780763763794
• ISBN10: 0763763799
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-02
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Summary

Environmental Oceanography: Towards a Sustainable Marine Environment is an interactive text and casebook designed to teach students about pressing marine environmental issues using critical thinking and basic math. The text uses an innovative approach to teaching environmental oceanography, consisting of marine environmental issues resented as self-contained analytical exercises, with information and questions on sustainability integrated throughout the text. Appropriate for a wide range of readers, Environmental Oceanography works well as a stand-alone text when supplemented with web-based activities, a lab-based course book, and as a supplement to main texts in oceanography and marine science for those instructors who would like to add an active learning focus to their course. Regardless of whether you are teaching a large or small course, Environmental Oceanography will engage and excite your students and prompt them to think critically about pressing environmental issues.

Table of Contents

Part1 Introduction to Science and the Use of Information
Chapter1 Science as a Way of Knowing
Chapter2 Principles of Critical Thinking
Chapter3 The Role of Government
Chapter4 Knowledge, Opinions, and Logical Fallacies
Part2 Principles of Oceanography
Chapter5 Towards Sustainable Oceans
Chapter6 Elements of Physical, Chemical, and Geological Oceanography
Chapter7 Essentials of Marine Ecology
Part3 Human Population Growth
Issue1 Population Growth: Overview and Global Trends
Issue2 Coastal Population Growth: Bangladesh and Miami, FL
Issue3 What's Up, Dock? Sustainable Coastal Development
Part4 Global Climate Change
Issue4 What Causes Climate Change?
Issue5 Sea Level Rise
Issue6 Climate Change and the North Atlantic Circulation
Issue7 Is Global Warming Causing More Intense and Frequent Hurricanes?
Part5 Marine Pollution
Issue8 Moms and (POPs): Toxic Chemicals in Seawater
Issue9 Just Cruisin': The Environmental Impact of "Cities at Sea" and Cargo Ships
Issue10 Human Impacts on Estuaries
Issue11 Dead Zones
Part6 Ecology of Large Marine Vertebrates
Issue12 Highly Migratory Fishes: Bluefin Tuna
Issue13 The Demise of Sharks
Issue14 Life Styles of the Large and Blubbery: Of Blue Whales and Krill
Issue15 Oceans Without Cetaceans
Part7 Tropical Marine Ecosystems
Issue16 Coral Rocks! The Value of the World's Coral Reefs
Issue17 W(h)ither the Mangroves?
Part8 Fisheries and Aquaculture
Issue18 Catch of the Day: The State of Global Fisheries
Issue19 Bycatch or Bykill: Dolphin-Safe Tuna and Turtle-Safe Shrimp
Issue20 Tragedy of the Trawl: Clearcutting the Ocean Floor
Issue21 Can Aquaculture Replace Capture Fisheries?
Part9 Invasive Species
Issue22 Veined Rapa Whelk in Chesapeake Bay
Issue23 Caulerpa in the Mediterranean
Part10 Energy from the Ocean
Issue24 Renewable Energy From The Sea: Is It Limitless?
Issue25 Methane Hydrates - Energy Boom or Climate Bust?
Appendix1 Basic Environmental Math