Meals:
- 7:30 Breakfast
- 12:00 Lunch
- 18:00 Dinner
Class starts at 8:00 except on Saturday 15th (starts at 10:00). Most mornings will start with a student synthesis of data, findings, and questions from previous day’s lab (schedule is flexible).
Week 1: Introductions and IOPs
| AM | PM | |
| Mon 10 | Welcome to the DMC (EB) ppt Logistics and overview (Tim, Linda) History of the class, logistics and overview of the course (CR, EB) Lecture 1 (CM) ppt What the Ocean Optics Class is All About Lecture 2 (CR) pdf Overview of Light in Water | Lecture 3 (CR) pdf Absorption physics and absorbing materials Lab 1 (EB+All) pdf Playing with light |
| Tue 11 | Lecture 4 (IC) pdf Phytoplankton – pigments, photo-adaptation, and taxonomy Lecture 5 (CR, EB) pdf Measuring Absorption | Lab 2 (CR, EB, IC) pdf - ressources Absorption by dissolved material (ac-9 / ac-s and spectrophotometer) Beer’s Law in a tank (environmental samples in ac-meters + specs) |
| Wed 12 | Lab Report CDOM lab synthesis and summary Lecture 6 (CR) pdf Introduction to Scattering | Lab 3 (CR, EB, IC) pdf Absorption by particulate material (ac-9 / ac-s and spectrophotometer) collecting chlorophyll samples (environmental + culture) |
| Thu 13 | Lab Report Particulate absorption lab synthesis and summary Lecture 7 (CM) pdf The VSF and Models for Scattering Lecture 8 (EB) pdf Beam attenuation | Lab 3b (CR, EB, IC) pdf Absorption by particulate material (ac-9 / ac-s and spectrophotometer) collecting chlorophyll samples (environmental + culture) |
| Fri 14 | Lab Report Attenuation and scattering synthesis and summary Lecture 9 (IC) pdf POC and other BGC parameters for which optics provide a proxy Lab 3c (CR, EB, IC)pdf Absorption by particulate material (spectrophotometer) collecting chlorophyll samples (environmental + culture) | Lab 4 (CR, EB, IC) pdf Scattering by particulate material (b and bb) collecting & processing samples for SPM/POC (environmental + culture) How to make alu foil packages for POC and other ? FlowCam demonstration |
| Sat 15 | Class starts at 10 am Synthesis of first week: critique process of learning, Q&A on any topic; tie up loose ends. Finish chlorophyll analyses from Friday lab Lab Report Scattering lab synthesis | 17:30 Bar-B-Que |
Week 2: Radiometric Quantities, AOPs & Hydrolight
| AM | PM | |
| Mon 17 | Lab Report Scattering lab synthesis Lecture 10 (CM) pdf Introduction to Light and Radiometry Lecture 11 (KV) pdf Radiometric Quantities and Their Measurement | Lab 5 (KV, EB) pdf Radiometric measurements: in-water and above-water Lecture 12 (CM) pdf Introduction to AOPs |
| Tue 18 | Lab Report Radiometry lab synthesis and summary Lecture 13 (KV) pdf Inelastic scattering – Raman, CDOM Lecture 14 (CR) pdf Fluorescence by phytoplankton pigments | Lab 6a (CR) pdf Fluorescence of CDOM and chlorophyll Lab 6b Raman Scattering Lab 6c NPQ experiment – how Fchl changes with exposure of cells to light. Lecture 15 (KV) pdf Basics of polarization |
| Wed 19 | Lab Report Fluorescence lab synthesis and summary Lecture 16 (CM) pdf The Radiative Transfer Equation Lecture 17 (KV) pdf Cal/Val and MOBY | HydroLight Overview pdf HydroLight Lab 1 (CM) pdf Introduction to HydroLight and Guided Simulations (simple simulations) |
| Thu 20 | Lab Report Report from HydroLight Lab 1 Brief report on topics selected for Student Projects – individual or small group project Lecture 18 (CM) pdf Introduction to Remote Sensing Lecture 19 (CM) pdf Closure | HydroLight Lab 2 (CM) pdf Guided Simulations (advanced simulations) |
| Fri 21 | Lab Report Report from HydroLight Lab 2 Lecture 20 (CM) pdf Rrs inversion methods A: Statistical Methods Lecture 21 (CR) pdf Rrs inversion methods B: Semi-analytical Models to obtain IOPs | Lab 9 (CR) pdf codes Semi-analytical Rrs inversion lab |
Week 3: Field Measurements, SeaDAS and Models
| AM | PM | |
| Mon 24 | Lecture 22 (JW) pdf Ocean color satellite remote sensing; basic atmospheric corrections Guest Lecture 23 (H. Dierssen) pdf Shallow water optics and other complex issues associated with Ocean Color | Prep for cruise 19:30 Guest Lecture 23 bis (H. Dierssen) Careers in Optics |
| Tue 25 | Group A: Field sampling on the R/V Ira C (EB, KV, CR) Group B: SeaDAS in the lab (JW and/or SB) pre-lab data lecture lab SeaDAS ppt | Lab 10 Analysis of Tuesday cruise data Work on student projects |
| Wed 26 | Group B: Field sampling on the R/V Ira C (EB, KV, CR) Group A: SeaDAS in lab (JW and/or SB) pre-lab data lecture lab SeaDAS ppt | Lab 10 Analysis of Wednesday cruise data Work on student projects |
| Thu 27 | Cruise report Preliminary reports on analysis of radiometry and IOPs from cruise Lecture 24 (JW) pdf In situ data for satellite QA/QC, Cal/Val Guest Lecture 25 (Barney Balch) Optical properties of PIC and their impact on ocean color | Lab 11 Group B: Analysis of cruise radiometry (KV, JW) Group A: Analysis of cruise IOPs (EB, CR) |
| Fri 28 | Lecture 26 (EB) pdf PSD calculus Lecture 27 (CR) PFT and PSD measurements Lecture 28 (JW) pdf PFT and PSD inversions from Rrs | Lab 12 (EB) pdf Arduino board lab Lab 13 (all) Continued data analysis of cruise radiometry and IOPs Exploration of optical phenomena Lobster dinner Leave at 16:40 and carpool to lobster wharf |
Week 4: Synthesis
| AM | PM | |
| Mon 31 | Cruise report Updates on analysis of radiometry and IOPs Lecture 29 (EB) pdf Uncertainty analysis and propagation of errors Lecture 30 (EB) pdf Optical properties of individual particles Mie theory and its limitations | Lab 14 (EB) pdf codes Mie theory calculations Lab 15 Instrumental closure using cruise data |
| Tue 1 | Cruise report Field data and closure Lecture 31 (CM) pdf Introduction to Monte Carlo Simulation | Lab 16 (NH) pdf codes Monte Carlo Lab Lab 17a Continuing to work on data/projects |
| Wed 2 | Lecture 32 (EB) pdf Marketing for young scientists | Lab 17b Data processing, projects, submission to SeaBASS, portfolios (videos, etc.) |
| Thu 3 | Lecture 33 (CM) pdf Basic Concepts of Visibility and Lidar Remote Sensing Lecture 34 (EB, CR) pdf ressources Ethics in Science. Case Studies in Ethics | Guest Lecture (Paul Hill) < a href="http://misclab.umeoce.maine.edu/OceanOpticsClass2017/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lec35_StudySedimentDynamicsPaulHill.pdf">pdf Using optics to study sediment dynamics Lab 17c Data processing, projects, submission to SeaBASS, portfolios (videos, etc.), etc. |
| Fri 4 | Student Presentations of Projects. Review of Class | |
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Instructors:
- Emmanuel Boss (EB) – UMaine
- Ivona Cetinic (IC) – NASA Goddard
- Curtis Mobley (CM) – Sequoia Scientific
- Collin Roesler (CR) – Bowdoin College
- Kenneth Voss (KV) – U. Miami
- Jeremy Werdell (JW) – NASA Goddard
TA:
- Nils Haëntjens (NH) – UMaine
- Alison Chase (AC) – UMaine
- Jordan Snyder (JS) – UMaine
Help from:
- Sean Bailey (SB) – NASA Goddard
- John Hedley (JH) – Numerical Optics Ltd.
- Jim Loftin (JL) – UMaine