Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 I had to switch from conventional teaching to "online instruction" halfway through the semester at Florida Gulf Coast University. Online instruction is not as efficient, effective, or fun as conventional teaching, but it IS better than nothing. One bonus of producing recorded teaching materials is that I can make them available for free to interested members of the public. I have done this with the lectures for my Marine Ecology course "OCB4633C." This is a required course in the BS Marine Science program at colleges in the Florida State University system. I recorded the lectures by doing "voice overs" of my existing PowerPoint slideshow presentations, then converting the presentations to video and uploading them to YouTube. The voice over recording function in powerpoint also lets you use a "laser pointer" or "pen" tool to scribble on the slides as you talk, so I did a lot of that.
These presentations are not National Geographic quality, and some of them move a little slowly with an inordinate amount of "ums" and "ok, so"s. Anyway, with those disclaimers done, here are the videos, in the order that I would normally present these topics to the students. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments, if you note mistakes or unclear segments, etc.
Introduction and Patterns in the Marine Environment
Intertidal Ecology
Primary Production Pt. 1
Primary Production Pt. 2
Secondary Production
Microbial Ecology
Pelagic Ecosystems
Continental Shelf Ecosystems
Estuaries
Seagrass, Saltmarsh, and Mangrove Ecosystems
Coral Reef Ecosystems
Deep Sea Ecology
Foodwebs, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Functions (this one is long with a lot of theory; casual watchers may want to skip or save for last)
Fisheries Ecology
Aquaculture (aka Fish Farming)
Disturbance Ecology
Pollution and Climate Change
