PPT-Wind and ocean Ecosystems

April Watson and Alanna Lecher Authors April Watson Alanna Lecher Classroom demographics for launch Undergrad environmental science and policy majors Environmental statistics course Most had experience with Excel. Susan Howard. Earth & Space Research. Basically – why and how the ocean and atmosphere MOVE!. www.ametsoc.org . There are many scales of motion: . From . BIG. . to . very small. Today – I will just cover the basic large scale, GLOBAL circulation.. Ocean Acidification: . How does changing ocean chemistry affect ocean ecosystems?. Jim Barry, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Benthic Respiration Chamber System. Perturbation experiments in the deep-sea. I. nfluencing . . the ITF in the 21. st. Century. Tony Lee. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. California Institute of Technology. ITF: a great challenge to both observations and models. Figure after . - Jacques Ives Cousteau. 2. New Orleans is nested between the mouth of the Mississippi River and the brackish estuary of Lake Pontchartrain.. 3. A series of floodwalls, or levees, protects the city from ocean surges from large storms.. CHAPTER. Too Much of a Good Thing?. Elephant populations in southern Africa declined sharply due to hunting but have made overwhelming comebacks within nature reserves and parks.. Some worry that elephant overpopulation is causing a decline in local biodiversity and damage to farms and infrastructure.. Aquatic ecosystems are primarily determined by the ecosystem’s . salinity. . Salinity refers to the dissolved salt content of the water.. Aquatic ecosystems are divided into freshwater and marine ecosystems.. Warm Up & Spiral . November 4. How are surface currents created?. How are deep ocean currents created? . What are 2 factors that affect the density of water?. What is upwelling? . Objectioves. : 8.E.1.1/1.2. Ocean Zones & Ecosystems. Freshwater Zones & Ecosystems. Related Ecology. Benthic Division. 6 Areas. . 1. Supralittoral zone. (supra= upper, litus=shore). . Water splashes but does not stay submerged. Section 3: . Aquatic Ecosystems. K. What I Know. W. What I Want to Find Out. L. What I Learned. Essential Questions. What are the major abiotic factors that determine the aquatic ecosystems?. What are transitional aquatic ecosystems and why are they important?. What is ecology?. It is the science that studies how . organisms. relate to each other and their . environment. .. Considers both . biotic. (living) and . abiotic. (nonliving) aspects.. Examples of abiotic factors: . Summary. This lesson utilizes the example of healthy estuaries to demonstrate tools scientists use to measure ecosystem health. Students will learn the definition and function of an estuary, an essential coastal ocean ecosystem. Students will then learn methods to measure parameters of large areas using quadrats and subsets. . By: Sean Meisner, Amanda Onwukwe, Arrian Bolden Pd:2nd. What Is Wind?. Wind: Is air moving across the surface of the Earth. Wind occurs because sunlight heats the earth’s atmosphere and surface unevenly.. Unit Standards. 5.L.4A.1 . Analyze and interpret data to summarize the abiotic factors (including quantity of light and water, range of temperature, salinity, and soil composition) of different terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic ecosystems. . Key Message #1. 9. Ch. 9 | Oceans and Marine Resources. The Nation’s valuable ocean ecosystems are being disrupted by increasing global temperatures through the loss of iconic and highly valued habitats and changes in species composition and food web structure. Ecosystem disruption will intensify as ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation, and other aspects of climate change increase. In the absence of significant reductions in carbon emissions, transformative impacts on ocean ecosystems cannot be avoided..