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Biological Oceanography - ESS 151/251 EARTHSYS 151/251

Lecturer: Kevin Arrigo
email: arrigo at stanford.edu
phone: 723-3599
office: Y2E2 141

Course Info:
• Text Book: Biological Oceanography, 2nd edition, by Charles B. Miller and Patricia A. Wheeler - Amazon.com
• Syllabus (Microsoft Word Document, last updated: September 19, 2025)
• Readings Feedback Form

Readings:
• For September 24:
  • Chapter 1, Miller & Wheeler
• For September 29:
  • Chapter 2, Miller & Wheeler
• For October 3:
  • Chapter 3, Miller & Wheeler
• For October 13: Biogeochemically important organisms
  • Top Predators in the Southern Ocean: A Major Leak in the Biological Carbon Pump (PDF)
  • Iron defecation by sperm whales stimulates carbon export in the Southern Ocean (PDF)
  • The Whale Pump: Marine Mammals Enhance Primary Productivity in a Coastal Basin (PDF)
  • Review paper: Pelagic Iron Recycling in the Southern Ocean: Exploring the Contribution of Marine Animals (PDF)
• For October 15:
  • Ecosystem variability along the estuarine salinity gradient: Examples from long-term study of San Francisco Bay (PDF)

Activities:
• Activity 2: Primary Productivity
  - Instructions
  - Supplementary material:
      - daylength calculator
  

Miscellaneous:
• Download Google Earth at www.google.com/earth/versions/ (either version is fine, Google Earth Pro on desktop is recommended).