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Oceanography

Chemeketa offers an Introduction to Oceanography class as needed.

topics Science

Skills & InterestFiguring Things Out

CareersScience & Engineering

  • The coast on a mostly cloudy day
  • Several jellyfish swimming around
  • The ocean on the Oregon coast

Why choose Oceanography?

This class helps satisfy the science requirements of our transfer degrees.

What will you learn?

  • Plate tectonics
  • Circulation
  • Physical properties of seawater
  • Chemical cycles
  • Marine ecosystems
  • Sedimentation
  • Cycles of land and sea
  • Climate effects