r/oceanography

hii, I am looking for free software similar to ODV that I can play around with. does anyone have any good recommendations? thanks!

I’ve been building a geology/earth science learning platform called Facet for the past several months. It covers geology, oceanography, atmospheric science, volcanology, climate, seismology, hydrology, glaciology, geomorphology, astrobiology, and planetary science — structured as proper learning paths with quizzes and a progress system.
I just opened up the first chapter of every single foundation path for free — no account needed to browse, no card ever. That’s now about 50 free lessons across all 11 subjects. The content comes from USGS, NOAA, NASA, NSF, and OpenStax — I haven’t written anything from scratch, I’ve structured and sequenced material from primary sources.
I’m posting here because honestly the hardest part isn’t building it, it’s finding out whether the content is actually good. You can tell pretty quickly if something is dumbed down to the point of being wrong, or if the sequencing makes no sense to someone who actually studies this.
So — if you have 10 minutes and want to poke holes in the geology/seismology/oceanography sections (or whatever is your area), I’d really appreciate it.

Site URL: facet.academy

Things I’m most unsure about:
• Does the depth feel appropriate, or does it feel like a Wikipedia summary?
• Is there anything that’s technically accurate but framed in a way that would bother a geologist?
• What’s missing that you’d expect to see in a foundations curriculum?

Not fishing for compliments — if something is wrong or shallow I want to know before more people use it.

My school offers a one year master's of management that you can do after you complete your bachelor's degree.

I still want to get an Oceanography degree, but I have some reaons for wanting to do this program first.

1. I want to go into fisheries management, and I feel like having a business education will help them take me more seriously
2. waiting an extra year will mean that my Oceanography masters will occur after Trump is out of office. I think the states have amazing programs, but I wouldn't want to go until I know how the administration is doing. I have citizenship there, but it's the kind where my parents were on a working visa.
3. I think it will make it easier to get into a good Oceanography program if I have more evidence that I can succeed in Masters program. I don't have the best grades (2.67), but I've been focusing on completing research papers so far to help bolster my chances. From what I've heard, this program is pretty easy to get into as a recent student.
4. I think it would be nice to have a change of pace. I grew up working in the family business, so I already have a lot of foundational experience with these courses. A lot of my arts credits were business courses because I found them fun, so I'm expecting the course load to not feel too heavy in comparison to what I'd expect from an Oceanography program.
5. I could keep my house and my lab positions for another year. I could keep building up my faculty connections, likely complete an extra paper and get better letters of reference. I'd appreciate not having to find a job or a house for another year. Especially if I'm predicting the program will be less busy than I am right now, it would be nicer to work on applications then, compared to doing them now during my bachelors.

But obviously I have no clue what I'm talking about. These are just assumptions I'm making, and I'd like to hear from other people what they think about this plan.

I’m thinking the answer is as simple as there just being a finite amount of water on earth?

I guess my question is, why can’t the earth grow in size? In terms of more water I mean. What’s stopping the oceans from getting deeper, and covering up land masses. What sets ocean levels to a set point that allows for land masses to be above it? I know with melting glaciers, water levels will rise, but is there a set level to that? If all frozen ice on earth melted, wouldn’t earth technically be larger in diameter? I know that’s multiple questions, but it’s just something I’ve been wondering.