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Tamsyn Smith

Hello! I'm a Professional Specialist in Learning Design in ILIaD (Institute for Learning Innovation and Development) at the University of Southampton. I've been supporting the teams on 'Exploring our Oceans' and 'Shipwrecks and Sunken Worlds'. I hope that your experience is as enlightening and valuable as mine has been and I look forward to the discussions that will take place on FutureLearn!

Seawater density

One of the posts that we read was from a learner who was struggling to understand the relationship between temperature, salinity and density, so Dr Mark Brandon has written a helpful pdf on seawater denisity to explain this in more detail. Continue reading →

Investigate the deepest parts of our world’s oceans.

Free and online Six-week interactive course The University of Southampton with FutureLearn is pleased to announce its first Massive Open Online Course in Oceanography – Exploring our Oceans. In this free six-week course starting 3 February, we invite our audience to investigate the deepest parts of our oceans, exploring an underwater world that has been unknown for most of human history. Continue reading →