Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor, lecturer and professor
Ian Goodwin
Contact via ian.goodwin@mq.edu.au
Room 414 level 4, 12 Wallys Walk Building
Monday 2-3 pm
Lecturer
Shari Gallop
Room 409 level 4, 12 Wallys Walk Building
Phil Dartnell
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
(39cp at 100 level or above) including (ENVE216 or ENVS216 or GEOS216)
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
Our oceans regulate and drive climate change, whilst the coastal and shelf environments experience some of the greatest impacts of climate change. This unit provides students with a comprehensive understanding of these interactions and impacts on a range of scales (ocean basin to regional coast) and time scales (past millennia to future decades).
The unit is taught in three modules:
Module 1 – Marine Weather and Climate covers the tropics to the polar regions, with a focus on sea-surface temperature, precipitation, wind-fields, marine clouds, surface ocean currents, ocean wave generation, extreme maritime storms, synoptic climatology and large scale climate drivers.
Module 2 – Coastal Oceanography covers continental shelf currents, coastal winds, wave transformation, sea-level variability, shoreface and surf zone processes, estuarine processes, storm surges, coastal flooding and sea-level rise.
Module 3 – Marine Climate Change focuses on ‘How to Determine Past and Future Long-Term Changes in Marine Climate and Coastal Dynamics – Real World and Modelling Approaches’. The module covers seasonal, annual, decadal and centennial modes of ocean-atmosphere variability and predictability, evidence-based and modelling approaches to sea surface temperature, salinity and current change, sea-level change and ocean winds, wave climate change and coastal response.
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Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Details and specific requirements of each assignment will be given in the lectures, practicals and posted on the ENVS301 website.
ASSIGNMENT DEADLINES, RULES AND ADVICE
Assignments must be completed and submitted, on time and in full, in order to receive credit. Penalties for late assignments will be a minimum of 10% per day or part thereof, beginning at 0900, not at some time later in the day.
These are real deadlines and penalties will be imposed for late submission. Allowing some students to hand in assignments late is unfair to those who met the deadline. |
The deadlines for assignments are not negotiable. Only a medical certificate or a letter with appropriate supporting documents outlining other serious, extenuating circumstances can be used to submit an assignment after the due date without penalty. Vague medical certificates are unconvincing – they must indicate how the illness impacted your ability to perform the assignment on time. Such permission must be sought before the due date unless this is absolutely impossible. Let us know of problems in advance or as soon as possible, not after the event: we are likely to be much more sympathetic and flexible in our requirements if you follow this advice.
All applications for extensions of deadlines for Assignments must be submitted to A/Prof Ian Goodwin.
Please note the policy on word limits for these assignments
- Penalties apply for excessive length (10% for every 200 words exceeding the limit).
- Diagrams, figures, reference lists and footnotes don’t count in the word tally.
- Inclusion of the chart used by the lecturer in setting the question doesn't count in the word tally.
While not as important as content, the stylistics and presentation of your written work are still significant. You must express your ideas clearly and succinctly. Word limits will be enforced (see policy above), so you must take care to stick to the point. Leave plenty of space for comments: wide margins all round (3 cm is fine), and 1.5 line-space your work.
If you experience difficulty achieving a good standard in your written presentations, please talk with your course convenor directly. The University offers excellent writing courses and resources designed to help you deal with what could potentially become a career-limiting problem if you lapse into denial about it.
Assessment of assignments will be based on the Macquarie University scale as set out in the Handbook of Undergraduate Studies (the “Calendar”): High Distinction (HD), Distinction (D), Credit (Cr), Pass (P), Fail (Fail). The markers may choose to further refine these grades by appending “+” or “-” to indicate work towards the top or the bottom of each grade’s band of marks. Feedback will also come in the form of written comments on each student’s assignments, as well as general comments directed to the entire class after all marked assignments have been returned (typically in class or via the online Discussion Forum). Assignments are generally marked and returned with a two-week turnaround (except if they are submitted late).
Citing and Referencing
NB: References should ideally be restricted to peer-reviewed literature, government policies and official publications. The use of web sites MUST be restricted to government departments or peer-reviewed scientific information. The referencing of blogs, special interest groups, media is rarely suitable, nor is the use of popular books. If in doubt, please check with the academic staff.
There are several systems of acknowledging your sources and other relevant work. The main requirements are clarity, consistency and the provision of all relevant bibliographic information so that someone else can easily find the source you are citing. Select a style and be consist with your usage of it. A good system widely adopted in the physical and environmental sciences is the “Harvard” or “author-date” method, where a brief reference to the source is given in the main text. Four examples of within-text referencing are;
Where there are more than two authors, you can abbreviate their names with a handy bit of Latin, "et alia" or "et al." (literally meaning "and others"). And being Latin, we should italicize the font;
Notice that I used an ampersand (“&”) within brackets only (c.f. Jones & Bloggs) but not in the running text.
Full bibliographic details of all sources cited must be listed in a “Reference List”, in alphabetic order of authors, at the end of the report. There, you should include details of the author(s), year of publication and specific pages (if required). Examples of how to construct a Reference List include;
For a book give: author(s), year of publication, title, publisher, and place of publication.
For a journal article give: author(s), article title, journal name, volume number, issue number (in parentheses) and pages.
For a chapter in an edited book, give the following details:
Don’t use “et al.” in a reference list; spell out all authors. Our preference is also to include full journal names, not abbreviations.
To reference a lecture (which is not generally encouraged because ENVE301 assignments are supposed to stretch you beyond the lectures), you might use the following format:
For a web source we have to ensure that - (a) authors get credit where it is due, and (b) sufficient detail is given for readers to be able to visit the site. For example, a reference to a Department of Environment and Conservation website in the text would be “DEC (2006)”, and in the reference list this would expand to;
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/home.htm (accessed 05 August 2008).
This gives the author (in this case a corporate entity) credit for their web page, the date of their most recent update to their site, the name/title of the web site, the full URL location of their web site, and finally, the date on which you accessed their web site.
Submission of Assignments
Assignments must be submitted electronically to the Turnitin Link for your unit. All assignments are to be submitted by 5.00pm on the date specified.
If you need to hand in your work after the date in which the rest of the assignments have been returned to students, you may be set a different assignment, even if you have completed the original one. If you know that you are going to hand in an assignment late, you must contact the course convenor beforehand to obtain an extension. Unless there is the appropriate documentation, late assignments will be penalised or not marked.
Obtaining Your Marked Assignment
Assignments will be returned within two teaching weeks of the submission date in the normally scheduled practical classes.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Practical Reports | 40% | No | 1 week after class |
Research Assignment | 20% | No | 1st October, 2018 |
Exam | 40% | No | Examination Period |
Due: 1 week after class
Weighting: 40%
Satisfactory Completion of all Practical Exercises
5 Practical Reports are assessable (Pracs 2, 3, 5, 7, 10) each worth 8 marks
Variety of research, data analysis and computer-based tasks
Due: 1st October, 2018
Weighting: 20%
Marine Weather and Climate Change - Literature review, paper syntheses, data analysis, critical thinking, essay writing
Due: Examination Period
Weighting: 40%
Exam 2 hour
Material drawn from all lectures, tutorials, practicals and assignments
Lectures - There is one lecture each week. These are: Monday 10 am to 12 pm 9 Wally's Walk Lecture Theatrette 102.
N.B. You are required to attend lectures and take notes during the live lectures. Illustrative material from the lectures will be made available from the ENVS301 web site: www.learn.mq.edu.au
Practicals / Tutorials - There is one 3 hour practical/tutorial each week. You will be assigned to either: Tuesday 9 am - 12 pm 11 Wally's Walk 270 PC Lab, or Tuesday 2pm - 5pm 11 Wally's Walk 270 PC Lab
These 2-3-hour “hands-on” classes will be in the computer laboratory. The practicals / tutorials are compulsory and are designed to help you work towards the assessable assignments, to allow you to build on lectures, reading and other material, and to develop some valuable generic skills.
The University expects that you devote at least 9 hours per week, in total, to a 3 credit point unit like ENVS301 - anything less will put you at a distinct disadvantage in terms of final grade. You must complete all practicals, tutorials and both assignments in order to be eligible to sit the final examination and complete the unit successfully.
Suggested Workload Proportion
Course Component |
Suggested Workload Hours |
Lecture Attendance |
26 hours |
Weekly Reading |
26 hours |
Practicals – on campus, and reporting |
36 hours |
Research Assignments |
40 hours |
ENVS301 Diary 2018 Marine Weather, Climate and Coastal Oceanography
Week |
Lecture Date |
Lecturer |
Lecture Topic |
Practical Topic |
Assessment |
Module 1 – Marine Weather and Climate |
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1 |
Monday 30th July |
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1. Introduction – Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean System in Time |
No practical in week 1 |
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2 |
Monday 6th Aug |
A/Prof Ian Goodwin |
2. Marine Weather and Climate 1 Tropics
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Practical 1 Introduction to Climate Data and Matlab |
Satisfactory Completion IG/CL tutors |
3 |
Monday 13th Aug |
A/Prof Ian Goodwin |
3. Marine Weather and Climate 2 Subtropics |
Practical 2 Pacific Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity Data Analysis |
Assessable (CL mark) IG/CL tutors |
4 |
Monday 20th Aug |
A/Prof Ian Goodwin |
4. Marine Weather and Climate 3 Mid Latitudes
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Practical 3 East Coast Cyclones
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Assessable (IG/CL mark) IG/CL tutors |
5 |
Monday 27th Aug |
A/Prof Ian Goodwin |
5. Marine Weather and Climate 4 Extratropics |
Practical 4 Sea Ice / Iceberg Data |
Satisfactory Completion IG/CL
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6 |
Monday 3rd Sept |
A/Prof Ian Goodwin |
6. Determining Seasonal, Annual, Decadal and Centennial Modes of ocean-atmosphere variability and their predictability – The Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, Centres of Action
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Practical 5 Climate Mode Typing/MATLAB Poama Forecasts
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Assessable (IG Mark) IG/CL
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7 |
Monday 10th Sept
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A/Prof Ian Goodwin |
7. Paleo sea surface temperature, salinity, precipitation, ocean winds and currents |
Practical 6 Researching historical and paleoceanographic data timeseries, interpreting climate models |
Satisfactory Completion IG/CL
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Mid-semester break – two weeks |
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Module 2 –Coastal Oceanography |
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Monday 1st Oct |
A/Prof Ian Goodwin |
8. Ocean wave generation zones, propagation, wave climate data, sources and extreme and modal wave climate analysis,
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Practical 7 Wave Climate Data Analysis
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Assessable (IG mark) IG/CL
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9 |
Monday 8th Oct |
A/Prof Ian Goodwin |
9. Continental Shelf Oceanography 1 Boundary currents, coastal winds, wind-driven shelf currents, and wave-driven shoreface currents, Deepwater wave transformation,
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Practical 8 IMOS Data and EAC, wave refraction
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Satisfactory Completion IG/CL |
10 |
Monday 15th Oct |
A/Prof Ian Goodwin |
10. Continental Shelf Oceanography 2 Sea-level anomalies, coastal trapped waves, wave-current interactions, paleo relative sea level, paleo wave climate |
Practical 9 Research Paper Tutorial or Coastal/Marine Forecasting |
Satisfactory Completion IG/CL |
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Monday 22nd Oct |
Dr Shari Gallop |
11. Shoreface and surf zone processes |
Practical 10 Beach Monitoring Data
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Assessable (SG Mark) |
12 |
Monday 29th Oct |
Dr Shari Gallop |
12. Estuarine processes |
Practical 11 Tidal current data analysis |
Satisfactory Completion SG |
13 |
Monday 5th Nov |
Dr Shari Gallop |
13. Storm Surges, Coastal Flooding and Sea Level Rise |
Practical 12 Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise |
Satisfactory Completion SG |
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