Where do we go now?
Thank you for sharing your ideas and learning with us for the last four weeks. Your contributions in the on-line discussions have been a key part of the learning journey …
Course: Exploring Our Ocean
TEDx Talk: No longer in the Dark
Watch this talk entitled “No longer in the dark: our choice for the future of the deep ocean” that Jon gave at a TEDxSouthamptonUniversity event (this video is an optional …
How the Ocean Affects our Everyday Lives
Just as we have been affecting the deep ocean environment, so the deep ocean has a variety of impacts on our everyday lives. In this video, Dr Jon Copley introduces …
Out of sight, out of mind?
Rubbish and litter strewn along beaches is unfortunately a common sight. The litter poll in the previous step is based on data from the Ocean Conservancy 2018 Cleanup Report. In …
Life at sea
Ocean scientists involved in the course give insights about what they miss and what they love about life at sea. What do you think you would miss the most? What …
Boldly going: Exploring the ocean depths in human-occupied vehicles
Paul Tyler is a veteran of deep-sea dives in manned submersibles, with more than 20 years’ experience. In June 2013, Jon Copley became the first British person to dive beyond …
Calculating residence time
In this video, Rachel and Will give a more practical demonstration of residence time. As was explained in the video ‘Where does the salt come from?’, the concept of an …
Where does the salt go?
So now that you have considered the vast quantities of salt that are present in the ocean, let’s get back to why that is. As you saw in previous videos, …
How much salt is there in the ocean?
In the previous step Where does the salt come from? Will Homoky explained that rivers contain only a tiny fraction of salt compared to the waters of the ocean. Before …
Where does the sea get its salt from?
Dr Will Homoky from the University of Leeds talks about the process of chemical weathering and the transport of water by rivers into the ocean. Rivers contain just a tiny …
Why is the sea salty?
Professor Rachel Mills explains why water is such a powerful solvent* and how this contributes to making our oceans salty. Rachel describes how early oceanographers measured the saltiness of the …
Describing new species: a tale of two shrimps
In the previous video, Verity described how we preserve deep-sea specimens during research expeditions to analyse later ashore. If they turn out to belong to a previously unknown species, biologists …
The Coriolis force and the conservation of angular momentum
In this step, Professor Mark Brandon demonstrates two key processes responsible for creating ocean gyres. Angular momentum The first process demonstrated in the video is something you may be familiar …
A warmer ocean: coral bleaching
We learned in the previous week that the symbiosis of corals with photosynthetic microalgae is vital for the formation of warm water reefs in the shallows. Unfortunately, the relationship between …
The open ocean: a world on the move
As land-living animals, we are used to seeing habitats shaped and defined by fixed geographic features like hills, valleys, lakes and rivers. We also recognise changing seasons by looking at …