Geosciences and Remote Sensing

OCEANOGRAPHY

Oceanography is study of all aspects of the ocean. Oceanography covers a wide range of topics, from the marine life and ecosystems, to the currents and waves, to the movement of sediments, to seafloor geology. The study of the oceanography is interdisciplinary. The ocean’s properties and the processes function together and cannot be examined separately from one another. The chemical composition of the water, for example, influences what types of organisms live there. In turn, organisms provide sediments to geology of the seafloor. Oceanography’s diverse topics of study are generally categorized into four major sub disciplines. A sub discipline is the specialized field of study within a broader subject or discipline. Oceanographers specialize in the geological, biological, physical and chemical processes of the marine environment.