Hello, I’m Matthew Cheung…..or Mateo Pets (in the Youtube community)…. and Welcome to my new channel called “Saliology”!
It combines two words. Saline or salinity which is the amt of salt (or NaCl) that is dissolved in a body of water…or essentially a salt-to-water gradient. And, ology or just logy is the Greek root word for “the study of” or “the field of knowledge”.
Combining these two meanings creates “the study of the salt-to-water gradient.
The reason for this channel is…to dedicate on explaining the concepts of marine biology and not only how you impact the ocean, but how the ocean impacts you in return!
I probably know what you are thinking right now, and I know these topics…(especially the sciences or any in depth disciplines)…can get more or less biased in anyone’s opinions…which is valid in their own right, but hopefully I’m going to try to be as nonbiased as possible and only tell you the facts.
These facts will be made available to you to search on your own, so you can check and explore if you like, by the videos having numbers on the screen when I bring up that information….and after watching the video you can find the corresponding website or article link down in the descriptions below.
If the information is biased (that hopefully only be sometimes) then I will warn you guys by putting it in big red letters on the top corner of the screen.
I’m also going to limit my videos to 5 minutes b/c I understand you may only want the key essential information out of a certain topic and besides, you probably do not want to hear my voice as I drone on and on about it anyway! Meaning, that if you want to dive deeper into that one topic or fact, then you can either look on it more yourself or you can comment below what you want me to explain further in a future video.
So…my schedule for the first couple videos is to lay the foundational topics, so later when we talk about more interesting/debatable topics like the things you hear in the news, mass media, or modern ad campaigns, you would be more informed on what they are talking about or at least have a better understanding of the concepts.
The topics will be in order consecutively are: water, lotic systems, lentic systems, estuaries, coastal systems, and finally the open ocean! Essentially, from your house (really local) to the ocean (very global).
Also, for each of these foundational videos, I will hopefully break it up into 3 sections: key info, fields & jobs, and current events.
So, with that….I can’t wait to have you along for the journey…as to not only relating you to the ocean….But, also how the ocean (or in these upcoming cases, the incremental topics) relating back to you!....Cheers! (say it like raising a glass and have a clink noise)
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If not and you don’t like this video, no worries…I’m not OFFENDED, but seriously type in the comments below just a couple words why you didn’t like it or how could I make it better so that you would come back and see my next video!
Oh, and one more thing, this is actually a major rule that I have on this channel, is that don’t put ANY negative/harassing comments or luring debates down below.
Only genuine comments and questions!
As I try to be as non-bias in my videos and stick to the facts…..I expect you to be as non-bias, non-cynical, etc. as well!
OK, enough from me in this video!
