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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
Feb-1997 - Aug-2003
Professor
Strayer University
Jan-2007 - Present
Critical Thinking Oceanography
1. Describe how an understanding of the working of the Earth a system relates to our ability to
predict how that system might respond to a large scale disturbance.
2. Provide some examples of how the atmosphere is coupled with the ocean.
3. Identify and describe some of the major interactions between the hydrosphere and geosphere.
4. Speculate on the source of the salt that is dissolved in seawater.
5. About 99% of the eater in the atmosphere occurs in the troposphere. Explain why.
6. Satellite-borne sensors that monitor the ocean are either active or passive. Provide example of
each type of sensor.
7. Explain how the ocean stabilizes Earths climate system.
8. Give an example of how a human activity has altered the rate of biogeochemical cycling within the
Earth system.
9. Give examples of how the various sub systems e.g. geosphere, hydrosphere) overlap.
10. List several means where by a human activity affects the orderly operation of the marine
environment.
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