If you missed last semester's guest speakers, click the following links for information:
Poseidon Resources (Carlsbad desalination) or the Lost City Hydrothermal Vent Field

Dr. David Sandwell's talk "Exploring Earth from Mars" at Palomar College February 7, 2006 streaming video

(Play time: 50:37):

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Dr. Bob Guza's talk "Waves, Surf Zone Currents, and Beach Erosion" at Palomar College April 20, 2006 streaming video

(Play time: 57:43; Windows Media format only):

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• "Why is the Ocean Salty?" by Herbert Swenson, U.S. Geological Survey

• JPL's Ocean Surface Topography from Space 1997-2002 El Niño-La Niña page at: http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/science/enso97/el_nino_1997.html
• JPL's latest image of El Niño in the Pacific Ocean at: http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/science/jason1-quick-look/index.html
• UCSD's CoastWatch "El Niño Watch" page at: http://coastwatch.pfel.noaa.gov/elnino.html
• Take the U.S. Navy's El Niño Quiz
• Is this an El Niño/La Niña year? View the 9-month worldwide SST forecast to see for yourself

• Coastal Zone Color Scanner Images of the Arabian Sea

• Part I: Investigating Waves from Space. View information from the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite at: http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/education/wind_waves.html 
• Part II: Waves in the Pacific Ocean. View a forecast of Pacific Ocean significant wave height for the next 168 hours (7 days) at: http://facs.scripps.edu/surf/images/maps/ganimnep.gif
• Part III: Waves Along the Southern California Coast. Access the remainder of the Ocean Waves Exercise
• Access the latest southern California swell prediction

• Coastal Cleanup Day Home Page
• Coastal Cleanup Day Results

• http://www.iodp.org/audiovisual

• Shifting Baselines video then select “What is Shifting Baselines?”
• Shifting Baselines document 
• Ghost Forest video