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15 Cards in this Set
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Marine Biology |
the study of organisms that live in the sea and their interactions with each other and their environment |
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Oceanography |
the study of oceans and their phenomena |
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Biological Oceanography |
more large scale than marine bio |
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Aristotle |
- birth of natural history observation - natural history of animals - hierarchical order of beings (Great Chain) |
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Linne/Linnaeus |
- first systematic classification and identification of species - father of modern taxonomy - binomial nomenclature |
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Forbes |
- sailed on surveying ship Beacon in the Mediterranean - developed Azoic theory (nothing lives below 550 m) |
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Darwin |
- many hypotheses on marine environment - circumnavigated the world on the Beagle - barnacle classification - Theory of coral ref subsidence (atoll formation) - correctly predicted that fringe reef comes first, then barrier reef, then atoll |
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The Challenger |
- sailed by Thompson & Murray - 1st and largest oceanographic expedition - discovered the mariana trench - discovered many new species |
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Prince Albert of Monaco |
- founded Monaco Oceanographic Institute - 4 research vessels and many expeditions in the Mediterranean |
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19th century institutions |
- 1st ever marine bio lab: Naples Zoological Station & Marine Bio Lab |
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20th century institutions |
- Scripps Institute of Oceanography - Friday Harbor Lab - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute - Mote Marine Lab - remote field stations |
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20th century developments |
- fisheries - ROVs deep diving submarines - SCUBA diving - Aquarius sunken lab - floating labs - tracking technology - molecular techniques |
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Hypothesis |
- proposed explanations that can be tested with the scientific method |
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Scientific method |
1. initial observations 2. explanatory model 3. hypothesis 4. null hypothesis (with experiment in mind) 5. experiment or field sampling 6. data |
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Good field experiments: |
1. control for confounding factors 2. include replicates of each treatment |
