Analytical Protocols

I am making available on my web-site a number of protocols for a large variety of analytes. In most cases, I include references to the original publications describing the procedures. See the list of available analytical protocols.

CYBAES - Cyprus Bibliographic Archive of the Earth Sciences

Still at a pilot stage, this effort aims at collecting all reported research on Cyprus in the fields of the earth sciences including, naturally, oceanography. Go to www.cybaes.org.

Education

Oceanography 201 - Science of the Sea, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

As a teaching assistant for a course, OCN 201 - Science of the Sea, at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa, I developed two laboratories for undergraduate students both specializing and not specializing in marine science or related fields. These two laboratories attempt to convey the basics surrounding the El Niño phenomenon and the use of computer modeling in oceanography resepctively. The latter is quite a hard task when non-science students are involved. This proved lethal for the modeling laboratory, which is not taught. Below, you may find links to the on-line versions and also copies of the laboratories in pdf format:

• El Niño laboratory: the latest version of the reading for this laboratory is available in this file: El_Nino_reading_Fall2005.pdf. I also post two exercise worksheets, one from Spring 2002 (El_Nino_Spring2002.pdf) and one from Fall 2005 (El_Nino_worksheet_Fall2005.pdf) to illustrate how the last section's questions have to be tailored to the current conditions. The former took place right after the mild El Niño event of that year, while the latter took place during a "normal" year. This exclusively on-line lab uses a variety of on-line resources., including real-time data (see below).
• Computer modeling laboratory: the modeling laboratory reading (Modeling_reading_Spring2002.pdf) and worksheet (Modeling_reading_Spring2002.pdf) from Spring 2002 are the latest versions generated. This lab uses, in part, STELLA (http://www.hps-inc.com/), to help students grasp how easy it is to introduce complexity into modeling calculations.

The El Niño laboratory was described in a talk my self and Chris Measures, the long-term coordinator of OCN 201, co-authored. The talk was titled "The Use of Real-Time Data in the Undergraduate Introductory Oceanography Laboratory" and was presented during a session on real-time environmental data for education of the February 2004 ASLO-TOS Ocean Research Conference. Read the abstract and the talk (pdf format).

Oceanography 628 - Benthic Biological Oceanography, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

The following page was posted for the Spring 2003 students of OCN 628 - Benthic Biological Oceanography: Transepidermal DOM uptake and sulfur biomes. The course coordinator is Craig Smith.

Links to Oceanography Journals

Web page development

Web design started as a hobby for me in 1998, and I developed it because of a growing conviction that information exchange is greatly accelerated and much less inhibited through the internet. I have worked on a number of scientific web-sites, motivated primarily - and sometimes solely - by this conviction. The following list includes sites which I developed, designed and wrote:

• The Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
• Global Environmental Science, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
• OCN 201 - Science of the Sea, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
• OCN 310 - Global Environmental Change
• OCN 401 - Biogeochemical Cycles
• Graduate Ocean Policy Certificate Program, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai`i at Manoa (currently inactive)
• IOC NW Pacific Cruise May 1st - June 6th 2002
• Hudson River Monitoring Plan, Waste Reduction and Management Institute, SUNY USB (fossil site)

Web Design Resources Workshop - pretty much a euphimism for a gathering of graduate students at the Department of Oceanography who wanted to learn the bare minimum about posting a web-page on the internet. This workshop took place in the Fall of 2003, and again in the Fall of 2005, after I fell in love with Cascading Style Sheets.