Under the patronage of the Dean of the College of Marine Sciences, Assistant Professor Dr. Usama Qasim Khalifa, and under the guidance and supervision of the teacher, Dr. Daoud Salman Bannai Al-Mayahi, rapporteur of the Sedimentology Department at the Marine Sciences Center (professor of surveying and marine geophysics),
As part of a series of classroom scientific activities for second and third year students, the College of Marine Sciences held a discussion on scientific issues within the scientific curricula of the surveying course MSSU204 and the marine geophysics course APMA310.
Presentations were made by students of both stages, during which various important scientific ideas and research in the fields of marine geophysics and marine surveying were discussed, through four basic marine scientific axes:
1. The effect of tectonic movements on the deviation of river courses, where the effect of subsurface structures and ground fractures on changing river courses and forming valleys was discussed.
2. The importance of bathymetric surveys and their role in determining the depths of seabeds, drawing bathymetric maps, and distributing marine resources.
3. Remote sensing in land and marine surveys, where the importance of remote sensing techniques in monitoring environmental and geological changes in coastal areas was reviewed.
4. The importance of geophysical surveys, with their various methods and analyses, in investigating and exploring various marine resources and wealth.
The student lecturers were distinguished by their ability to deliver and communicate the scientific idea and research plans to their fellow interviewers, who in turn showed their interaction through the questions that were posed and discussed, as it is considered a distinctive step to increase the scientific knowledge of the participating students, as well as to help them in applying marine sciences on both the theoretical and applied levels.
