Video Guide

Chapter 1

  1. Diatoms of the H.M.S. Challenger Expedition
  2. Marine Laboratories – Grice Marine Lab, College of Charleston
  3. Marine Laboratories – Duke University Marine Lab
  4. Marine Laboratories – Bodega Marine Lab Students and Marine Creatures
  5. Ocean Observatories Initiative
  6. Testing Scientific Hypotheses – A Musical Approach from New Mexico State University

Chapter 2

  1. Discovery of Sea Floor Spreading and Subduction
  2. The Water Molecule
  3. Coriolis Effect Explained
  4. Ekman Transport
  5. How to Measure Salinity
  6. Effect of Salinity on Ocean Currents
  7. Wind and Wave Formation
  8. Wave Structure and Formation
  9. Tides Explained in 10 Seconds

Chapter 3

  1. El Niño and La Nina Explained
  2. Greenhouse Effect
  3. NASA a Year in the Earth’s CO2O
  4. cean Acidification
  5. Oxygen in the Ocean and Climate Change

Chapter 4

  1. Ecosystem Ecology
  2. Optimal Time in Patch Theory Applied to Humans
  3. Predator Buffet
  4. Crypsis – Cephalopod, Master of Camouflage
  5. Phenotypic Plasticity – How a Fish Changes Color to Deceive Prey

Chapter 5

  1. Countercurrent Exchange
  2. How Do Fish Drink Saltwater?
  3. Ice Fish Have no Hemoglobin! Why?
  4. How Do Fish Breathe?
  5. Scallops Have Eyes!

Chapter 6

  1. Reynolds Number – Laminar and Turbulent Flow
  2. Life at Low Reynolds Number
  3. Copepod feeding at Re ~ 0.5
  4. Bernoulli Principle

Chapter 7

  1. Barnacles Are Specially Endowed
  2. Fiddler Crab Males Waving – Phuket, Thailanr
  3. Barrel Sponge Spawning
  4. Male Seahorse “Giving Birth”
  5. Migration Cycle of the European Eel
  6. Sea Turtle Life-Migration Cycle
  7. Planktonic larvae of marine snails
  8. Sea Urchin – Amazing Larvae and Metamorphosis
  9. Starfish Larvae – vortices created by ciliary swimming and feeding currents: Gilpin et al, 2017

Chapter 8

  1. Secret Life of Plankton
  2. Copepods Feeding
  3. Swim with Jellyfish in Palau
  4. Comb Jellies – Monterey Bay Aquarium
  5. Euphausia superba Antarctic krill
  6. Siphonophores

Chapter 9

  1. Squid
  2. Diving With a Chambered Nautilus
  3. Countercurrent Gas Exchange in Fish Gills
  4. Moray Eel Attacks Prey With Two Sets of Jaws
  5. Basking Shark Feeding off Cornwall Coast
  6. Orcas in New Zealand
  7. Song of the Humpback Whale
  8. Seals vs. Sea Lions
  9. Albatrosses
  10. Gannets Diving for Fish

Chapter 10

  1. Bioluminescence in the Deep
  2. How Anglerfish Attract Prey with a Luminous Lure
  3. How the Vampire Squid Really Feeds
  4. Totally Weird Barreleye Fish

Chapter 11

  1. The Central Role of Phytoplankton
  2. The Global Distribution of the Major Cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus spp.
  3. Zooplankton – Role in Production in the Water Column
  4. Upwelling and Primary Productivity in the Ocean
  5. The Microbial Loop
  6. Climate Change and the Microbial Loop

Chapter 12

  1. Why Study Ocean Color by Satellites?
  2. Scientists Use Satellites to Map the World’s Oceans

Chapter 13

  1. The Three Domains of Life
  2. Marine Microbes
  3. Importance of Seaweeds by Dr. Russ Chapman
  4. Sea Grass, Prairies of the Sea

Chapter 14

  1. Ciliate Protozoa in Salt Pond
  2. Sponges on a Cayman Island Deep Wall
  3. Sea Anemones
  4. Swimming Marine Flatworm
  5. Marine Polychaete Neanthes arenaceodonta
  6. Gumboot Chiton Spawning, British Columbia
  7. Barnacles feeding
  8. Mantis Shrimp Attacking Fish
  9. Hermit Crabs Exchanging Shells
  10. Bryozoa (Membranipora) feeding
  11. Sea Cucumber Feeding
  12. Sea Star Feeding on Mussel
  13. Sea Star Attacks a Scallop and Eats a Mussel
  14. Tunicates

Chapter 15

  1. Bioturbation
  2. Burrowing by razor clam on sand surface
  3. Burrowing by clam
  4. Deposit feeding by Sea Cucumber at the Sediment Surface
  5. Deposit feeding at surface by Incurrent Siphon of Macoma sp.
  6. Suspension Feeding (Filter Feeding) Marine Invertebrates
  7. Suspension Feeding by Marine Mussel – J. Evan Ward
  8. Cone Snail Attacks its Prey – A Fish!
  9. Sea Urchin Eats Macroalgae
  10. Teredo shipworm Boring Into Wood

Chapter 16

  1. Rocky Shore of Eastern Australia
  2. Ghost Crabs on Sandy Beach in South Africa
  3. Mudflat Biodiversity
  4. The Geoduck, the Bad and the Ugly
  5. What is A Salt Marsh – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  6. Introduction to Salt Marshes – University of Massachusetts, Boston
  7. Estuaries – University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Institute
  8. What’s an Estuary – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  9. What is an Oyster Reef? Florida State University
  10. Oyster Reefs – Sanibel-Captiva, Florida
  11. Saving the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Reefs – Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Chapter 17

  1. Sea Grasses and Light
  2. Kelp Forests – West Coast of United States
  3. 24 Hours of Bull Kelp Growth in 20 Seconds
  4. Rocky Reef Organisms – Northern California
  5. Coral Reef Biodiversity – Great Barrier Reef
  6. Coral Reefs – National Geographic
  7. Coral Restoration Foundation
  8. Restoration of staghorn and elkhorn corals in Bonaire
  9. Vanishing Coral
  10. Martin Moe demonstrates spawning of the tropical urchin Diadema antillarum, shot by Blue Zoo

Chapter 18

  1. The Deep Sea from the Submersible Alvin
  2. Hydrothermal Vents
  3. Hydrothermal Vents at Endeavor Ridge
  4. Deep Water Corals narrated by Tom Shirley

Chapter 19

  1. Arctic Food Web from Ice Algae and Beyond
  2. Antarctic Food Web in the Ross Sea
  3. Ross Sea Food Web – more
  4. Antarctic Krill
  5. Penguin Video with CritterCam
  6. Adelie Penguins of Paulet Island, Antarctica

Chapter 20

  1. Monitoring Biodiversity – Census of Marine Life
  2. Mapping Biodiversity by Making and Ecosystem Map – Remote Sensing Techniques - NOAA
  3. Design of Marine Reserves to Maximize Connections
  4. Global Ocean Reserves – Marine Conservation Institute
  5. A Day in the Life of a Marine Conservation Biology Volunteer
  6. Sylvia Earle on Saving the Ocean

Chapter 21

  1. Common Fishing Methods
  2. Overfishing and Sustainable Fishing
  3. Overfishing of the World’s Fisheries
  4. Restoring the Eastern Oyster – Chesapeake Bay

Chapter 22

  1. Gulf Oil Spill Effect on Cat Island Bird Rookery, Louisiana
  2. Plastics in Tropical Gyres
  3. Charles Moore – A Sea of Plastic
  4. The Ocean and Contaminants – a Video Essay by Steve Palumbi

 

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