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MSCI 401B - Fundamentals of Marine Science, Chemical Oceanography

Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): MSCI 330  or BIOL 330  or GEOL 330 , and CHEM 103  or permission of instructor
This course presents an overview of the chemistry of estuaries and the ocean including chemical processes that occur in marine sediments and at the air/sea interface. Discussion topics will include the chemical properties of seawater, chemical equilibrium and kinetics, the seawater carbonate system and ocean acidification, the global and oceanic carbon and nitrogen cycles, ion speciation, trace metals, and nutrients, sediment diagenesis, and fundamentals of radioisotope and stable isotope biogeochemistry. Interdisciplinary applications are emphasized.