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3002.03 — Introduction to Chemical Oceanography

Prerequisites: CHEM 1011/1012 or equivalents and OCEA 2000
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.

Instructors:
Helmuth Thomas — Associate Professor