GLY 501 Syllabus

The following are a number of documents, PDF's, and exercises for your use in both our class as well as in the development of your research proposal and thesis.

Research Stuff

How to Read a Scientific Article

Writing the Precis

Scientific Presentation examples (from the Oceanography Society) - includes oral and poster presentations

Research Proposal Writing guide

Data presentation (examples for your use)

Scientific Method - a discussion of the formulation of the hypothesis and scientific methods used to evaluate your ideas

Grant Stuff

Example_Grant Proposal 01

Example_Grant Proposal 02

Sigma Xi Grant-In-Aid of Research guidelines

Critique of research articles (assignment 04)

Payne et al. 2007

Payne et al. 2009 (comment and reply)

Wignall et al. 2009 (comment and reply)

Guidelines for critique of an article

Abstract development (assignment 05)

Ballast manuscript

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Data manipulation and use of EXCEL (assignment 06)

POWERPOINT presentation of data manipulation and graphics

Assignment 06 - data manipulation

Data analysis summary