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Course curriculum

    1. Tell us about yourself

    2. How to Use This Course

    3. Introduction

    4. Welcome survey

    5. Get Started

    6. Challenge: Pilot an ROV

    7. So Where Exactly Is the Deep Sea?

    8. Reflect: Ocean Exploration

    1. Where is the Abyss?

    2. Animals of the Abyss

    3. Extreme Pressure in the Deep

    4. Swim Bladders? They're So Passe...

    5. The Skinny on Fat

    6. Exploring the Deep Sea

    7. Challenge: Social Math

    8. Challenge: Resurfacing

    9. Lighting Up the Dark

    1. Deeper Dive: Palumbi Lectures

    2. Lecture: Bioluminescence

    3. Lecture: Pressure in the Deep

    1. Feelin' Hot! Hot! Hot!

    2. Characteristics of Hydrothermal Vents

    3. How They Form

    4. Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!

    5. Discovery and Exploration of Hydrothermal Vents

    6. Goldilocks and the Three Temperatures

    7. Their Chemical Romance

    8. All Star Adaptations

    9. Hydrothermal Vent Life

    10. Choose Your Challenge

    11. Challenge: About Me

    12. Challenge: I Lava Good Meme

    13. Nauti Nerds

    14. Additional Resources and Sources

    15. Mid-Course Check-In

    1. Deeper Dive #2: Palumbi Lectures

    2. Lecture: Hydrothermal Vents

    1. What is a Whale Fall?

    2. Discover A Whale Fall

    3. That Sinking Feeling

    4. Dynamic Conditions

    5. Cue the Jaws Theme Music

    6. First Stage

    7. Second Stage

    8. Third Stage

    9. Bone-Eating Snot Flower

    10. Timeline of Species

    11. Nauti Nerds Pt. 2

    12. Whale Poop and Climate Change

    13. Challenge: Carbon Foot...er...Flipper Print

    14. Humans and Whale Falls

    15. Challenge: Whale Fall "Flipper"

    16. Additional Resources

About this course

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  • 57 lessons
  • 0.5 hours of video content