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Syllabus



Syllabus

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Format


This course is offered through The MIT/WHOI Joint Program. Lectures were held at WHOI and broadcast via private video link to students on the MIT campus. Recitations were on the MIT campus and broadcast via private video link to students at WHOI.



Homework


Homework is worth 30 percent of your grade. There will be 9 problem sets, so each problem set will be worth about 3 percent of your grade. The problem sets will be handed out on Tuesdays and due in class on the following Thursday (so you have a week and a half). We prefer you try to do these problems by yourself, but don't mind if you work in groups.



Mid-term Exam


There will be a mid-term exam after Ses #12. This exam will cover all of the material covered up to that point. It will be worth 30 percent of your grade.



Final Exam


The final exam will cover all material presented over the semester. It will be a 3-hour, closed book, take home exam and will be worth 30 percent of your grade.



Class Participation


This will count for 10 percent of your grade and will be based on attendance and participation in the lectures and recitation.



Lecture Notes and Course Reading


Electronic copies of the lecture notes will be made available in the lecture notes section. For those lectures for which we don't yet have electronic versions of the figures, we will distribute photocopies prior to lecture. There will not be any formal reading assignments for the course, but you may find the following books to be good references:

Amazon logo Pilson, Michael E. Q. An Introduction to the Chemistry of the Sea. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN: 9780132589710.

Amazon logo Libes, Susan M. An Introduction to Marine Biogeochemistry. New York, NY: Wiley, 1992. ISBN: 9780471509462.

Amazon logo Berner, Elizabeth Kay, and Robert A. Berner. Global Environment: Water, Air, and Geochemical Cycles. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN: 9780133011692.



Calendar




Lecturers


SD=Scott Doney
WM=Bill Martin
KC=Karen Casciotti
MKT=Meg Tivey
DT=Dierdre Toole


SES #TOPICSKEY DATESLECTURERS
Introduction
1Overview of the determinants of seawater compositionSD
Tools for studying marine geochemistry
2Introduction to stable isotopesKC
3Introduction to marine radiochemistryWM
Physical setting: Atm., ocean circulation, hydrol. cycle
4Atmospheric circulation and water cycleSD
5Ocean circulationProblem set 1 dueSD
Major constituents of seawater and controls
6Major ions and salinitySD
7Marine carbonate chemistryProblem set 2 dueWM
Inputs to and outputs from the ocean
8Rivers and groundwaterMKT
9Hydrothermal processesProblem set 3 dueMKT
10Non-conservative processes in estuaries/groundwater/hydrothermalMKT
11Gas exchange across the air-sea interfaceSD
12Atmospheric-ocean interactionProblem set 4 dueDT
Mid-term
Biogeochemical cycling in the water column
13Primary production (1)SD
14Primary production (2)SD
15New, export, and net community productionProblem set 5 dueSD
16Sinking particles and remineralization (1)SD
17Sinking particles and remineralization (2)Problem set 6 dueSD
18Quantifying biogeochemical fluxes and ratesSD
Biogeochemical cycling in sediments
19Early diagenesis IProblem set 7 dueKC
20Early diagenesis II and sediment distributionsKC
Special topics
21Long-term cycles of carbon, oxygen and sulfurDT
22P cycleProblem set 8 dueDT
23N cycleKC
24Anthropogenic CO2 (1)Problem set 9 dueSD
25Anthropogenic CO2 (2) and reviewSD
Final exam

 








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