Oceanography in the Digital Age

This course in oceanography will introduce you to the biology, chemistry and physical nature of this unique environment. A multimedia course text designed for introductory college oceanography.

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More Than an Ebook

Easy to Navigate

Our online course is structured like an ebook with engaging content in a format that is intuitive and easy to navigate. Key words are highlighted to make it easy to study and every chapter is loaded with links to fascinating additional support material.
Imagery Galore

There is nothing like making your subject matter come alive with new visual perspectives. We use extensive drone imagery and aerial photography in our videos that are often filmed on site. Wait until you see our 360 immersive panospheres and 3D objects that allow you to move "within" an image.
Social Media

Multimedia is an important way to consume information these days and our ebook is no exception as we link or embed supporting content across multiple social platforms.

Why Study the Ocean?

REASON #1.

Build your science literacy. We are so bombarded with misinformation and "fake" news, that it's critical to be well informed or better yet, be able to critically look at information and know how to question it. When you build science literacy, you don't learn all the answers to questions, but you learn how to critically question what you read and look for answers. It's not about being nerdy, but rather informed. Science literacy will put you ahead of the game.

REASON #2.

Relevance. We need water to survive. It is a precious resource that needs to be preserved like the trees that make the air we breathe. While the ocean is predominantly salty, freshwater and seawater are intimately linked. All of our food sources depend on water and many of them live in it. A basic understanding of the ocean environment will help us appreciate this valuable resource. If you think you appreciate the ocean now, just wait until you take this class.

REASON #3.

Knowledge is opportunity. From the moment we are born we are actively learning. We spend our whole life learning skills and new information that is processed by our remarkable personal computer called "the brain". Without this ability we would be useless. The more we learn, the more we can do. Learning creates opportunity. Learning about the ocean may open up opportunities for new experiences or even jobs.

What's Inside

Chapters and Extras.

Plus imagery that comes alive with animation, panospheres, and 3D immersive photography.

Your online course contains 18 in-depth chapters that cover:

The origins and tectonics of our water plant, exploration and mapping with geodesy

The nature and properties of ocean layers, seawater chemistry and ocean acidification

Atmospheric and ocean circulation patterns, waves and tides

Marine life from bacteria to animals

... and more

Your Author

Mike Kozuch

Dr. Mike Kozuch is a geophysicist whose interests and experience span a variety of earth and ocean sciences. Mike has mapped the geology in the jungles of Central America, developed seismic hazard models of Venezuela, participated in a Caribbean ocean voyage to map the ocean floor with side-scan sonar, managed a major GPS campaign across 5 countries in the southeast Caribbean, and worked on earthquake hazard projects in New Zealand. He also spend over 15 years teaching oceanography and geology courses at Cal State East Bay. More recently he appeared in an episode of the Weather Channel mini-series The Earth Unlocked. Mike now uses social media in science outreach and you can catch him on his YouTube channel or Instagram. @myscienceblast

Affordable for everyone.

So, what are you waiting for? Jump into oceanography and get your feet wet!

$65.95

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What Our Students are Saying

Amazing textbook

Lupita Enriquez

I have never really read a book that was as interesting as this one. It contains many visuals and videos that makes it very interesting to read.

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Great course

Angela Altamero

The digital textbook was very descriptive and organized. The quizzes at the end of each chapter were great practice quizzes. I'm impressed by how well-organi...

The digital textbook was very descriptive and organized. The quizzes at the end of each chapter were great practice quizzes. I'm impressed by how well-organized and put together this digital textbook is by Professor Mike Kozuch. I'd highly recommend this course to my peers because of this digital textbook, the well-organized lesson plans for the semester and the doable weekly homework.

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Review of Oceanography in the Digital Age

Leedia Tesfay

As a college student I have had to purchase/rent many textbooks throughout my academic career. Often textbooks are expensive and sometimes hard to find. Give...

As a college student I have had to purchase/rent many textbooks throughout my academic career. Often textbooks are expensive and sometimes hard to find. Given the past struggles I found this digital text book super convenient and modern. Also the videos and amazing images made focusing and learning fun. I honestly enjoyed this online book and I hope other educators can create something similar as well.

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Great Book!

SeMia Perry

Very great textbook. Easy to understand and grasp the material provided in the book!

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Higher Ratings

Iris Martin Mendoza

Course deserves more then 5 stars !

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Excellent Course Highly Recommended A Must For All Studen...

MARIA LARA

Without a doubt my counselor was right this class is known to be educational, fun and extremely interesting. Dr. Kozuch is an excellent professor he discusse...

Without a doubt my counselor was right this class is known to be educational, fun and extremely interesting. Dr. Kozuch is an excellent professor he discussed information that we all need to know the affects our ocean and the importance of each species, climate, temperature and the way we should value each other more so the environment! The videos were AMAZING it's as if you were actually there!

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Amazing

Sunny Maurera

I learned a lot and I love the video.

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Oceanography

Ivan Martinez

I love this class!!! Very informational and very fun to learn!!!

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