Prerequisites: This class is open only to students enrolled in the Combined Honours in Chemistry and Oceanography. Students will have completed all required 3000 level courses in Oceanography, OCEA 4130 and have the consent of the instructor of this class.
This class presents topics that are the cutting edge of research in chemical oceanography, taught as 3-4 self-contained modules. Example topics include, the oceanic CO2 system and its relation to climate change, chemical reactions in the sediments and the consequent exchange of chemical with the ocean, photochemistry in the upper ocean, and inferring the chemistry of ancient oceans through the isotope records in sediments.
