Introduction to Chemical Oceanography

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course provides students with a basic understanding of the composition of seawater and the processes that leads to this composition. This understanding is both qualitative and quantitative through the use of thermodynamic, kinetic and box models to describe the balances that produce the observed chemical distributions. PREREQUISITES: CHEM 1011.03 and CHEM 1012.03 (or equivalent), OCEA 2001.03 and OCEA 2002.03 (or OCEA 2000.06); OCEA 2020.03 and OCEA 2021.03; or permission of instructor EXCLUSIONS: OCEA 3170 FORMATS: Lecture