AGENDA for March 4th, 2000 (WORKSHOP 3)

"Winds, Currents and Cores" 

Introduction and Background Information about Today's Presentations (Powerpoint Presentation by Dr. Michael Passow) (view the HTML version)

1. "Saturday Workshops for Educators" program description and sponsors  

2. "Before Satellites: Some Historical Notes about Understanding the Ocean Floors and Currents"

• "Ancient history through Ben Franklin"

• Ship logs and M. F. Maury's "Physical Geography of the Sea"

• H.M.S. "Challenger" (1872 - 1876)

• Sampling the moving sea

• "Pilot Charts" and ocean currents

•  "How Low Can You Go? - Beebe and Trieste"

• SONAR before, during, and after WW II

• "Doc Ewing's 'A Core A Day' "

• Heezen and Tharp's "physiographic maps"

  3.  "Satellite Oceanography"

• What Keeps a Satellite in Orbit?

• How Can Satellites "See"?

• NASA's "Earth Science Enterprise"

Dr. Donna Witter: "Assembling a 100-Year Record of Ocean Winds from Ships and Satellites"

Presentation by Dr. Donna Witter  (HTML version)

Classroom-ready activities from the American Meteorological Society "Maury Project" teacher-training modules

"Up, Down, and All Around:  Wind-driven and Density-driven Currents"

[NOTE: THESE TEACHER-TRAINING MODULES ARE ONLY AVAILABLE IN WORKSHOPS FROM AMS PEER TRAINERS]
           

Curator Rusty Lotti Bond hosts a tour of the Deep-Sea Sample Repository

1. "What Are Cores?"

2. "What Have We Learned from Studying Materials from the Ocean Bottom?"

3. A Tour of the LDEO Deep-Sea Sample Repository