Here are some important aspects of your Term paper assignment on Oceanography and stewardship to keep in mind as you conduct your research:

• " Although the topic of the paper is open, you must incorporate the theme of stewardship into your writing, somehow."
• "Your reference list should include primary references; that is to say peer-reviewed articles or books in the public domain."
• "You may use web-sites for your reference lists, but not just any old website; there is a lot of disinformation out there. The interweb is good for background information, and can be used to read things that are printed somewhere, but blahblah.com is not a legitimate reference for our class, as they are not reliable. That said, there are online peer-reviewed journals, such as PLOS, and these are fine." 
• "Beware of pseudo-science, the librarians and I can help you with this."