The main objective of the course is to provide students with an overview of marine sciences in its various aspects or history of (exploration, navigation, commerce, etc.) and scientific (first international scientific expeditions, from the surface to the deep sea, etc) want to use (marine resources, etc).
Generic goals, skills and abilities:
• Develop critical thinking
• Develop research, structure and analytical skills
• Develop the capacity of conceptualization and problematization Specific objective, skills and abilities:
• Acquire historical knowledge about the evolution of maritime exploration in its various aspects and interests
• Understand the main features of the marine environment and its limitations / difficulties of access
• Acquire basic knowledge of the main areas of research / exploration of the seas current knowledge and some differences between the various Oceans
1 The Blue Planet
1.1. Introduction and General concepts
1.2. The Oceans and the terrestrial environment/origin of Life
2. Difficulties of access to the marine environment: "Seeing" through Ocean Water, Inaccessibility, Pressure, Logistics, Conductivity, Corrosion, Fouling and Wave Motion
3. Importance of the Sea: Art, Science, History
4 Diversity of Marine Sciences:
4.2 Maritime History and Underwater Archaeology
4.3 - Nautical Sciences
4.3.1 Shipbuilding
4.3.2 Navigation
4.3.3 Transport and logistics
4.3.4 Port Infrastructures
4.3.5 Communications and submarine cables
4.4 Geophysical Sciences
4.4.1 Submarine Topography
4.4.2 Mineral Resources
4.4.3 Underwater Acoustics
4.5 Biological Sciences
4.5.1 Marine Living Resources
4.5.2 Management of Marine RV
4.6 Social Sciences:
4.6.1 Importance of Sociology
4.6.2 Economics and Management
4.6.3 Marine Tourism
5 Marine Sciences: an integrated and interactive network of other sciences and arts.
Lectures: based on presentations in ppt illustrative of the main concepts to be addressed by theoretical program.
Theoretical and practical lessons that include:
- Analysis, interpretation and discussion of historical / current documents with the completion of a paper on a topic to discuss in class.
Rating - A frequency (50%) on the theoretical (T) and a written work (50%) on the theoretical and practical component (TP).
Approval if the arithmetic mean of the frequencies is positive (> 10 points).
Introduction to Ocean Sciences, 3rd edition DOUGLAS A. SEGAR Contributing author Elaine Stamman Segar © 2012 by Douglas A. Segar, p. cm. ISBN: 978-0-9857859-0-1(access online http://www.reefimages.com/oceans/SegarOcean3GlossAppdx.pdf)
Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science, ROBERT KUNZIG, editors by Sort of Books, New York, USA, ISBN-0393-32063-4, 334 pp., 2000.
Ocean: The World's Last Wilderness Revealed, by Robert Dinwiddie et al, 2008, editors DK, ISBN-978-0756636920, 505 pp., 2006
Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, Edited by John Steele, Steve Thorpe, Karl Turekian, Academic Press, ISBN: 978-0- 12-375044-0, 2009.
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