{"id":104,"date":"2018-06-15T08:11:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T08:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.meteo.mcgill.ca\/cdufour\/?page_id=104"},"modified":"2021-07-09T07:12:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T07:12:38","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.meteo.mcgill.ca\/cdufour\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Introduction to Oceanic Sciences <\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">(undergraduate level)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #570a09;\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In this course, students learn about how the ocean looks like from the surface to the abyss, why the ocean is in constant movement, what sustains the life in the ocean, and what the role of the ocean in the climate system is and how human activities impact the ocean. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #570a09;\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We also mention the major discoveries which have revolutionized our knowledge about oceanography and the different techniques (based on observations and models) that provide scientists invaluable information about how the ocean looks like and evolves over time.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ocean, weather and climate<\/span><\/strong> (undergraduate level)<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #570a09;\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In this course, students learn about <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #570a09;\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">the forces that drive ocean and atmospheric circulation<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #570a09;\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">s, and what the large-scale ocean circulation looks like,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #570a09;\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">about <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #570a09;\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">some ocean and atmosphere weather phenomena, and <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #570a09;\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">about the climate system and the ongoing changes in climate, with a focus on the ocean<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #570a09;\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #570a09;\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We also talk about the<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #570a09;\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">w<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #570a09;\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">idely used<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #570a09;\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> observational and modeling techniques that allow scientists to monitor and study the ocean.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Ocean Physics<\/strong><\/span> (graduate level)<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #570a09;\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In this course, students learn about <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #570a09;\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">some fundamentals of ocean physics on seawater properties, processes contributing to stability and mixing, ocean circulations, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #570a09;\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">wave phenomena and tides<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #570a09;\"><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">. We also review the main observational and modeling techniques that allow scientists to monitor and study the ocean.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction to Oceanic Sciences (undergraduate level) In this course, students learn about how the ocean looks like from the surface to the abyss, why the ocean is in constant movement, what sustains the life in the ocean, and what the role of the ocean in the climate system is and how human activities impact the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.meteo.mcgill.ca\/cdufour\/teaching\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teaching&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.meteo.mcgill.ca\/cdufour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.meteo.mcgill.ca\/cdufour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.meteo.mcgill.ca\/cdufour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.meteo.mcgill.ca\/cdufour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.meteo.mcgill.ca\/cdufour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/web.meteo.mcgill.ca\/cdufour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/web.meteo.mcgill.ca\/cdufour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.meteo.mcgill.ca\/cdufour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}