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Marine Chemistry

Dr. Dierdre Toole and others · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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About

This course is an introduction to chemical oceanography. It describes reservoir models and residence time, major ion composition of seawater, inputs to and outputs from the ocean via rivers, the atmosphere, and the sea floor. Biogeochemical cycling within the oceanic water column and sediments, emphasizing the roles played by the formation, transport, and alteration of oceanic particles and the effects that these processes have on seawater composition. Cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, and sulfur. Uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide by the ocean. Material presented through lectures and student-led presentation and discussion of recent papers.

Lectures

Audio Lectures

  1. Session 07: Marine Carbonate Chemistry Video
  2. Session 10: Non-conservative Processes in Estuaries/ Groundwater/Hydrothermal Video
  3. Session 11: Gas Exchange Across the Air-sea Interface Video
  4. Session 12: Atmospheric-ocean interaction Video
  5. Session 13: Primary Production (1) Video
  6. Session 14: Primary Production (2) Video
  7. Session 17: Sinking Particles and Remineralization (2) Video
  8. Session 18: Nov Quantifying Biogeochemical Fluxes and Rates Video
  9. Session 19: Early Diagenesis I Video
  10. Session 20: Early Diagenesis II and Sediment Distributions Video
  11. Session 22: P Cycle Video
  12. Session 25: Anthropogenic CO2 (2) and Review Video

Syllabus and materials

At MIT OpenCourseWare, as the course publishes them.

Credits and licence

Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Taught by
Dr. Dierdre Toole, Dr. Karen Casciotti, Dr. Meg Tivey, Dr. Scott Doney, Dr. William Martin
Term
Fall 2006
Level
Graduate
Language
English
Subjects
Engineering, Earth and environment, Astronomy and space
Source
MIT OpenCourseWare
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as MIT OpenCourseWare states it. Non-commercial use only. MIT OpenCourseWare's terms
Attribution
Dr. Dierdre Toole, Dr. Karen Casciotti, Dr. Meg Tivey, Dr. Scott Doney, Dr. William Martin. Marine Chemistry. Fall 2006. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu/. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
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