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Date
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Lecture
Slides
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Readings
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Assignment
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Jan.
10
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1. Introduction
& fundamental properties of seawater
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Download and install Ocean Data View
[50 Years of]
Achievements in Chemical Oceanography
Thermodynamic Equation Of Seawater -
2010 (TEOS-10)
Seawater
salinity and density calculator
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Jan.
17
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2. Vertical
structure, water masses and mixing
(Guest lecture by Dr.
Jeff Gao)
Ocean Data View
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The
biggest chill
On the
history of meridional overturning circulation schematic diagrams
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Jan.
24
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Tutorial: Ocean Data
View
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Download GEOSECS database
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Jan.
31
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3. Seawater
chemical composition and mass balance modelling
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Elemental
distribution (Nozaki 2001)
Nozaki's
chart
Periodic
Table of Elements in the Ocean
Chapter 1 of
Sarmiento and Gruber (2006)
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Feb.
07
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4. Stable and
radioactive isotopes in oceanography
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Periodic
Table of Elements and Isotopes (IUPAC, 2019)
Stable
isotope geochemistry (by William White)
Stable
isotopes in precipitation (Dansgaard, 1964)
Radiocarbon
(Heaton et al., 2021)
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Assignment 1
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Feb.
14
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5. Marine
sediments
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The
long-term carbon cycle, fossil fuels and atmospheric composition (Berner,
2003)
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Term Paper
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Feb. 21
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READING WEEK - NO CLASS
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Feb.
28
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6. Air-sea
exchange
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Section
3.5 Mason et al. 2001
Chapter 3, Sarmiento and Gruber 2006
Chapter 5 and 6, Millero 2013
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Assignment
1 is due
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Mar.
06
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7. The Tricky
Three: pH, Alkalinity, and DIC
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pH
of seawater
Chapter 1
of "CO2 in Seawater" (Zeebe and Wolf-Gladrow, 2001)
CO2
System Calculator: CO2Sys
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Assignment 2
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Mar.
13
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8. Marine Carbon
Cycling: Inorganic
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History
of Seawater Carbonate Chemistry, Atmospheric CO2, and Ocean
Acidification (Zeebe, 2012)
Chapters 8 & 9 of S & G (2006)
Global
sea-air CO2 flux (Takahashi et al., 2002)
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Mar.
20
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9. Marine Carbon
Cycling: Organic
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Chapters 4 & 5 of S & G (2006)
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Assignment 2 is due
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Mar.
27
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10. Nutrients
(N, P, Si)
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Chapters 4, 5 & 7
of S & G (2006)
Redfield Ratio at
80 (Nature Geoscience Web Focus)
Marine
Nitrogen Cycle (Gruber, 2008)
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Assignment 3
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Apr. 03
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11. Trace
constituents and marine pollution
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Apr. 10
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12. Past,
Present, and Future, with a case study of the Arctic Ocean
Term
Paper Presentation
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Warming
up, turning sour, losing breath: ocean biogeochemistry under global
change (Gruber 2011)
Biogeochemical
extremes and compound events in the ocean (Gruber et al., 2021)
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Assignment 3 is due
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Apr. 26
(13:30-16:00,
320 Sinnott Building)
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Final Exam (click here for more info)
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Term
Paper is due
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