Professor Sean's Lecture Resources

Here you'll find a number of lecture slides and videos on various topics in different popular formats. If you don't see what you need, send me an e-mail. I love to get questions from ocean people.

Getting to Know the World Ocean

We Live Because the Sea Lives [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- An introduction to the world ocean
The Ocean Giveth...[Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Resources from the world ocean
The Humans Taketh Away [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Human impacts on the world ocean
Exploring the World Ocean [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The scientific method of ocean scientists
Rock, Ocean, Air, Life [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The four Earth Systems and how they intereact
It's About Time, It's About Space [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- How the ocean varies in time and space and why it's important
The Riddle of the Ancient Navigator
- Human migration across Oceania
From Sea to Space
- What ocean exploration can teach us about space exploration

Giving Birth to Earth and Its Systems

A Long Time Ago, Right Here, Not So Far Away [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About geologic time
Bang, Bang, It's a Universe [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Origins of the universe and solar system
Third Rocky Planet from the Sun [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Origins of Planet Earth
All I Need Is the Air That I Breathe... [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Origins of the atmosphere
Where Did All This Water Come From? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Origins of the ocean
Dating Rocks [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- How we know how old rocks are
The Little Microbe That Did [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Origins of life on Earth

Geology of the World Ocean

Exploring Geological Oceanography [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Things geologists want to know about the ocean
Three Basins, One Ocean [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Geography of the world ocean
The Edge of the Sea [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The continental margins
The Mountains Beneath the Sea [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About oceanic ridges
The Deepest Places [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About oceanic trenches
Connecting Ridges and Trenches [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About transform faults
Earth's Surface Is a Moving Jigsaw Puzzle [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The theory of plate tectonics
I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The evidence for plate tectonics
Welcome to Loihi! [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About hot spots and mantle plumes
Giant Worms in Space? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About hydrothermal vents
Ride the Seamount! [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About seamounts
GeeO the Guyot [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About guyots
For Whom the Atoll [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About atolls
The Sediment Cycle [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Sediment transport and deposition
A Grain of Sand [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Where beach sand comes from and what it's made of
The River of Sand [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- How sand moves along and across the beach
Profiling Your Beach [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Seasonal changes in the shapes of beaches

Chemistry of the World Ocean

Exploring Chemical Oceanography [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- What chemical oceanographers want to know about the ocean
A Trip on the Water Cycle [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- A description of the reservoirs and pathways of the water cycle
Water on the Rocks [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- How rocks get broken down by water
Wierd Scenes Inside the Salt Mines [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Where salt comes from
H-O-H [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About the water molecule
That Dissolvy Thingy [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- How substances dissolve in water
Elements Majorous [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Major constituents of seawater
Elements Minorous [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Minor constituents of seawater
Elements Bioticous [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Biologically important constituents in seawater
Elements Exoticous [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Mining the seafloor for valuable minerals
Meet DOM [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About dissolved organic matter and why it's important
Where Salt Comes and Where Salt Goes [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- How the ocean maintains its salinity
The Water Column [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- That imaginary column of water oceanographers refer to all the time
The See-Tee-Dee[Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About the workhorse of oceanography, the CTD
One Thing Leads to Another [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- How oceanographers relate conductivity to salinity
A Brief History of Ocean Salinometry [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- From weighboats and STDs to satellites and robots
The Practical Salinity Scale [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Discussing standard seawater
Are You Proportional? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The Law of Constant Proportions
L-M-N-O-pH [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About acids and bases
Let's Get Buffered [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The marine carbonate system
The Living Carbon Cycle [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About the carbon cycle of living things
There are Phytoplankton in Your Gas Tank [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The origins of crude oil
Paper, Scissors, Rock Cycle [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The rock cycle and its influence on the carbon cycle
The Geologic Carbon Cycle [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The long-term inorganic carbon cycle
Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About the composition of the atmosphere
Hot Drama [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The greenhouse effect
Charles Keeling the Magnificent [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Atmospheric carbon dioxide and where it comes from
The Seashells Are Melting [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Ocean acidification

Physics of the World Ocean

Exploring Physical Oceanography [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- What the OG oceanographers want to know and how they're going to find out
A Thing or Two About Measurements [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Accuracy versus precision
A Brief History of Ocean Thermometry [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- From buckets and thermistors to satellites and robots
The Impractical Temperature Scale [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Comparing Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin
Energy, the Elusive Shapeshifter [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Forms of energy and their transformations
What's Hot, What's Not [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Correcting some misconceptions about heat and temperature
Move Your Heat, Please [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Understanding conduction, convection, and radiation
Let's Get Electromagnetic [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Introducing electromagnetic radiation
You Absorb, I Scatter [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Explaining absorption and scattering
Balancing Your Global Heat Budget [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- How Earth's temperature is maintained or not
Heating the Ocean with Solar Radiation [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About specific heat
Boiling the Ocean [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About the latent heat of vaporization
Freezing the ocean [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About the latent heat of fusion
Earth's Orbit and Your Marigolds [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Why we have seasons
Profiling Temperature and Salinity [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Introducing the thermocline and the halocline
Dense, Denser, Densest [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Understanding seawater density
Seasons of the Sea [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The seasonal thermocline
Dive! Dive ! Dive! [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Pressure in the ocean
Is Your Water Column Stable? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Understanding buoyancy
Pressure in the Air-izontal [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Atmospheric horizontal pressure gradients
And the Wind Cried...Mary? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The cause of winds
Air Hockey [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Wind stress and ocean turbulence
Pressure in the Sea-izontal [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Ocean horizontal pressure gradients
The Baro Twins [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About barcolinic and barotropic flow
Evaporate! Condensate! Precipitate! [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Understanding evaporation and precipitation
P Minus E Equals SSS [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Factors controlling sea surface salinity
Get Offs My Cloud [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Cloud condensation nuclei and coccolithophorids
Looking at Clouds From Both Sides Now [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The role of clouds in global warming
Speaking of Albedo... [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About the reflection of light from Earth's surface known as albedo
Now You Sea Ice, Now You Don't [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The role of sea ice in controling albedo and ocean temperatures
The Tropical Firebox [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- How the tropics warm the planet
The Rise and Fall of Mr. Hadley [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Understanding atmospheric circulation
Twist and Turn [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The Coriolis effect
Are You Cyclonic? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About cyclones and anticyclones
Let's Trade Winds [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About trade winds
Hangin' With My Homeys in the I-T-C-Z [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The intertropical convergence zone
Stuck in the Doldrums Without a Paddle [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About the doldrums
When You Throw a Horse Off a Ship... [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About the horse latitudes
I Scream, U Scream, We All Scream For Jet Streams [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Understanding the jet streams
War at the Polar Front [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Explaining Rossby waves
The T in the X-Y and X-Z [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Depicting seawater temperature patterns in surface maps and vertical sections
The One-Eyed Cyclone [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- How hurricanes form
Tracking Nature's Wind Monsters [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Tracking a hurricane
The Rise and Fall of a Hurricane [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The life cycle of a hurricane
Hurricane Alley [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The influence of sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Atlantic on hurricanes
Bubble, Boil, Turbulence, and Roil [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- How hurricanes affect the upper ocean
The Boy and Girl That Live at the Equator [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Introducing El Niño and La Niña
Some Like It Hot [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Understanding El Niño
Some Like It Cold [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Understanding La Niña
Reporting from the Equatorial Pacific... [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The TAO/Triton El Niño-La Niña monitoring system
Yeehaws for Seesaws! [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The variability of climate on multiannual and multidecadal scales
A Tale of Three Oscillations [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- ENSO, PDO, and NAO, among others
One Ringy Dingy, Two Ringy Dingy [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Global teleconnections and Earth's climate
Seeing and Predicting [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About ocean and climate models
Professor Marvel's Crystal Climate Ball [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Predictions from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Stick a Thermometer In It! [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Human-caused warming of the world ocean
Is It Me or Is That the Ocean at My Doorstep? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Human-caused sea level rise
Six Degrees and a Penguin Barbecue [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The human consequences of global warming
Doctor Ocean [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Monitoring ocean warming with ARGO robots
Who Can Say It Isn't Alive? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Introducing the circulation of the world ocean
Freeways of the Sea [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Overview of the surface circulation
Where Submarines Lurk [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Overview of the deep circulation
What Nansen Observed, and Ekman Discovered [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- An explanation of the Ekman spiral and Ekman transport
As the Currents Turn [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Understanding geostrophic flow
Over Hill, Over Dale, Yes, We're On the Ocean Trail [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- A description of the shape or topography of the sea surface
Chutes and Ladders [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Understanding upwelling and downwelling
Where We Meet, Where We Part [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Explaining convergence and divergence
Irving Langmuir Goes to the Sargasso Sea [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About Langmuir circulation
Yo, Currents, West Side [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About western boundary currents
Timothy Folger, Ben Franklin, and the Gulf Stream [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Some interesting facts about the Gulf Stream and the people who studied it
Cold Core, Warm Core, But No Hard Core [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- A description of warm and cold core eddies spun from western boundary currents
Yo, Currents, East Side [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About eastern boundary currents
Of Jets and Eddies [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- A description of jets, filaments, and eddies spun from eastern boundary currents
Townsend Cromwell, Surfer, Oceanographer, Discoverer [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Some stuff about equatorial currents, including the Cromwell Current
Where the Ocean Gets All Choked Up [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The Indonesian Throughflow and Drake Passage, ocean choke points
The Current That Can't Make Up Its Mind [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About the monsoonal circulation of the Indian Ocean
Round and Round and Round It Goes [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Fingerprinting Water [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- T-S diagrams
Whose Water Mass Is It, Anyways? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Overview of water masses
Push Me, Pull You [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About what causes ocean circulation
Tracer-X! [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Using chemical tracers to track the motion of the ocean
The Great Global Conveyor Belt Cartoon [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- How the global ocean conveyor belt has been misrepresented and misunderstood
Catch a Wave and You're Sitting on Top of the Ocean [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Introducing ocean waves
Beautiful Wave [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Anatomy of a wave
The Big One That Got Away [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Measuring waves
We're In Orbital [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The orbital motion of waves
The Way Mathematicians See Waves [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Wave equations
What's Your Wave Energy? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Energy distributions in waves
The Ups and Downs of Adding and Subtracting Waves [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Constructive and destructive wave interference
Making Waves [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- How waves are created
How Steep Is Your Wave? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About wave steepness
What Sir Francis Beaufort Did? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About the Beaufort Scale
Take the Wave Train[Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Wave dispersion and spreading
Totally Tubular [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Breaking waves
Feeling Bottom [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Wave Refraction and Focusing
Meet Me At the Wedge, Trev! [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Wave reflection and how it makes waves at The Wedge, Newport Beach, California
Bigger Than Any Wave You've Ever Seen [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About internal waves
Waves Gone Wild [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Extreme and rogue waves
Storm Surge Kills [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Why storm surge is generally the most dangerous part of a hurricane
Momm, Tsunami [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Overview of tsunami
We Are Born on One Tide, We Die on Another [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Introduction to Tides
What Tide Is It? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Daily patterns of tides
The Tidal Month [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Phases of the Moon, positions of the Sun
Springy and neapy [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About spring and neap tides
Grunion Man [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The California grunion
No Spinning Buckets! [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The oft-misunderstood cause(s) of tides
Tidal Tether Ball [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- An explanation of dynamic tides
The Lumpy Earth [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- A description of Earth's geoid
On the Level About Sea Level [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Ways that scientists measure sea level

Biology of the World Ocean

Exploring Biological Oceanography [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- What biological oceanographers are trying to figure out about living systems in the ocean
It's a Topsy Turvy World [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Defining vertical ocean habitats
Home, Home on the Biome [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Defining horizontal ocean habitats
Float, Sink, or Swim? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Introducing lifestyles of marine life
Meet the Plankton [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About life that drifts
Meet the Nekton [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About life that swims
Meet the Benthos [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About life that lives on the seafloor
A Romp Through the Ocean Neighborhood [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- My favorite examples of the diversity of marine life
Visit the Rocky Intertidal [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- A stroll along a rocky shore
Get High on a Coral Reef [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About the breathtaking, intoxicating beauty of a coral reef
Life in Three Domains [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Classification of life based on their genomes
What's That? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Traditional and new ways to categorize marine life
Imagine All the Species [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About the Census of Marine Life
Mr. Sea Genes [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About the emerging field of ocean genomics
DNA Barcodes: Don't Leave Home Without Them [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Using short sequences of DNA to rapidly catalogue marine life
Getting in Touch With Your Inner Sea Star [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Life's common characteristics
Evolution Ain't Easy [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- What evolution is and what it isn't
Who Stays, Who Goes [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Understanding natural selection
Mass Extinctions, Dude [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- A history of mass extinctions on Planet Earth
Dancing With the Earth [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The co-evolution of life and Earth
High Light, Low Light [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Adaptation of phytoplankton and seaweeds to variations in the intensity and color of light
The School That Stays Together, Survives Together [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Why fish form schools
Headed My Way? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The daily up and down motions of a host of marine organisms
Ocean Light, Ocean Bright [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Understanding bioluminescence
The Cry of the Fish, the Song of the Whale [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The soundtrack of marine life
Why I Love Phytoplankton [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Introducing marine phytoplankton
At the Interface of the Living and the Non-Living [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Overview of the role of primary producers
The Magic of Photosynthesis [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- An overview of photosynthesis in the ocean
Mouse Trap! [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The Z-scheme of the photosynthetic light reactions
Calvin and Benson Minus Hobbes [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The dark reactions of photosynthesis
Nuts! [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Explaining biologically important nutrients
The Deep Blue Sea [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Why the ocean is blue
Put a Shine On It! [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Light limitation of primary productivity
When the Miracle Gro Runs Out [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Nutrient limitation of primary productivity
From Dawn to Dusk [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Traditional measurements of primary production in the ocean
Ocean Tricorders [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Measuring primary production using natural fluorescence
Nature's Little Recyclers [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The role of marine bacteria in supplying biologically important nutrients
The Cows of the Sea [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The role of marine zooplankton in controlling primary productivity
Mixing, Mixing, Swirling, and Fixing [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The role of vertical mixing in controlling primary productivity
The Critical Water Column [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About Sverdrup's critical depth hypothesis
Blue Ocean, Green Ocean [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The seasonal cycle of primary productivity
This Ocean, That Ocean [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Variations in primary productivity in tropical, temperate, and polar oceans
My Phytoplankton Are Better Than Yours [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Global variations in primary productivity
Phytoplankton From Outer Space [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Satellite measurements of primary productivity
A Beautiful Orchestra [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The interaction of physical, chemical, and biological processes in the ocean
Can Phytoplankton Save the Earth? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Can iron fertilization of the ocean reduce atmospheric CO2?

Ecology of the World Ocean

The Invisible World Beneath the Sea [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Overview of Ocean Ecology
Landspeak versus Oceanspeak [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Definitions of ecosystems
Energy Flows, Matter Recycles [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Flows of energy and matter in ecosystems
I Still Hear You Saying You'd Never Break the Chain [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Explaining food chains and food webs
20,000 Calorie Pyramid [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About trophic pyramids
Bottom Up? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- What controls energy and material flows in food webs
A Tale of Two Food Webs [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Discovery of the classical and microbial food webs
The Old School Ocean Food Web [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The classical food web
The New School Ocean Food Web [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The microbial food web
Steady or Not, Here It Comes! [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About steady-state versus transitional food webs
A Blooming Conveyor Belt [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Upwelling systems and how they work to produce phytoplankton blooms
A Bloom on the Move [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Ice edge phytoplankton blooms
Waiting on the Rain From Above [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Midwater ecosystem dynamics
Thanksgiving on the Whale Carcass [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Deep-Sea food falls
Attack of the Giant Clams [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About hydrothermal vents and their strange forms of life
The California Serengeti [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- A focus on the California current ecosystem

Fisheries in the World Ocean

In the Beginning of Oceanography [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- An overview of the development of fisheries oceanography
Save the Fishes! [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The state of global ocean fisheries
Seeds and Stems [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Understanding the concept of the maximum sustainable yield
Fishing Down the Food Web [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About the practice of fishing lower on the food web
The Law of Fishy Consequences [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Understanding trophic cascades and why they're bad
Goodbye Bycatch [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Reducing bycatch
Nets or Lines? [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Improving the way we fish
The OK Fish Corrall [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The ecosystem approach to managing fisheries
Keep Yo Hands Offa Da Fish [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Why marine protected areas and no-fosh zones are important
Anchovies Are Cool, Sardines Are Warm [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Ocean regime shifts and their impact on species' populations and distributions
Cannery Row, Monterey Ho! [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- A history of fishing in Monterey, California
Aquaculture, Smaquaculture [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Can we really farm the sea?

The Present and Future of the World Ocean

A Blueprint for the Ocean in the 21st Century [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- The Pew Commission on the Ocean
The Coastal Ocean [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Overview of the state of the coastal ocean
How to Prevent Overfishing [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Understanding sustainable seafood practices
How to Prevent Global Warming [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Understanding sustainable energy practices
Only You Can Prevent Oil Spills [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Reducing the impacts of oil spills
Night of the Living Dead Zone [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- About eutrophication and ocean dead zones
When the Color of the Water Just Ain't Right [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Harmful algal blooms and how to avoid them
The Future of Oceanography [Keynote] [PPT] [PDF] [YouTube] [Links]
- Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten