Find an article in a journal, newspaper, or online (i.e. Washington Post, New York Times, Science, Popular Science, Nature) that has been published in the past year and is related to an oceanographic topic. THIS MUST BE A REPUTABLE SOURCE! If in doubt, please ask.

Some examples are: marine organisms, effects of climate change on the oceans, ocean acidification, wave energy, overfishing, aquaculture, coral bleaching, red tide, and plastics in the ocean. This is by no means a complete list. There are many other topics that are related to oceanography. Please choose something that you are interested in. If in doubt, email me a PDF or link to the article and I will let you know if the article is acceptable. If it is something that interests you and is related to oceanography, I will likely approve it.

Assignment: Read the article carefully and provide a review that answers the following questions. You must try to address each question the best you can to receive full credit.

The review should be at least one full typed page, double-spaced. No fonts larger than 12-pt and normal 1” margins.

Indicate the title and author of the article.

Provide a link to the article.

Provide a short summary of the article. In a few sentences tell me what the article is about in your own words!

How does the article relate to oceanography? (This question can be answered in your summary)

What is the problem discussed? (This question can be answered in your summary)

Is there a global impact? If so, what is it?

Is there a local impact? If so, what is it?

What is the impact on your daily life and in the long term?

Is there anything you can do and what?

Why is this important?

Why is it interesting to you?

I realize some of these questions may not be directly pertinent to the article you choose but try to answer them the best you can. If you are having trouble being thorough, you may need to choose a different article. If in doubt, please check with me.

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The article “Bigger is not better for Ocean conservation” by Luiz (2018), illuminates the concept of protected areas in the ocean and explains that it does not matter how large a protection area is but how much of the fish species it can save especially those facing extinction. It is clear according to statistics that from Hawaii to Brazil to Britain, there has been the establishment of large marine protected areas with the aim of safeguarding fisheries and ecosystems by controlling or restricting human activities around the areas. Since oceanography is the study of physical and biological aspects of the ocean, the article relates to it based on the physical part of the sea of establishing protected areas to protect fish…

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