Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling . GEOG 271
Introduction to numerical modeling of ocean biogeochemical cycles. Topics to be covered include transport matrix calculations, boundary value problems, steady-state and transient simulations, nonlinear models and Newton's method. Students will design, code, and run a numerical model of an element of their choice
Prerequisites: Geography 210 or equivalent.
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Used iclicker and slide heavy lectures but not too bad. Grades were based on section attendance/ activities and midterm and final not a hard class but if you want an a you have to study for the midterms and final
He is an amazing professor. Nothing wrong or bad to say about him, however one of his TA's was a tough grader. He would literally give me a 99.75 instead of 100 on the homework or just always be extra. Other than the TA, as long as you study and read the chapters/lectures you will be fine
Prof Devries is very kind and clearly cares about geography, my TA Nikita was also awesome. Took this for a GE and highly recommend it.
Overall a nice guy, but he's not an inspiring lecturer by any means. Class is attendance, biweekly hw, midterm and final. Material is relatively difficult for a class with no math prerequisites. The hw is really hard to do w/o going to OH because he does very little math in lecture. Midterm/final are pretty fair, but definitely need to study.
Iclicker and mandatory attendance. Labs are fine and tests are easy.
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