| Course ID: | MARS 7380. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Quantitative Methods in Marine Science |
Course
Description: | An introduction to common, quantitative research techniques in
marine sciences. The course will make extensive use of problem
sets and interdisciplinary marine science data sets. The course
will be a required course for all Marine Sciences graduate
students. |
| Oasis Title: | Quantitative Method Marine Sci |
| Prerequisite: | Permission of department |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Students taking this course will be expected to obtain a thorough
understanding of quantitative methods commonly used in marine
science research. |
| Topical Outline: | Basic quantitative methods in marine sciences, mass balance,
processing and analysis of large interdisciplinary data sets,
descriptive statistics, rates of change, time series and spatial
analysis of data, dimensional analysis, scaling, analysis of
profiles in the water column and sediments, analysis of tidal
signals, dilution techniques. |