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OCEANOGRAPHY AND MANAGEMENT OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT

INTRODUCTION TO CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

  • The subject of “Chemical Oceanography”.
  • Water balance on earth, hydrological cycle.
  • Chemical structure of water.
  • The impact of pressure, temperature, electrolytes.
  • Seawater and its physicochemical properties.
  • The Ocean as a chemical system (redox, sorption and complexing processes - balances).
  • The parameter of Salinity.
  • Speciation of seawater components.
  • Dissolved gases (oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide). Carbon, nitrogen, silicon and sulfur cycles in the sea.
  • Photosynthesis.
  • Dissolved and particulate organic matter.
  • Trace elements (distribution, speciation).
  • Chemistry of marine sediments.
  • Introduction to marine pollution.
  • Application of principal chemical laboratory techniques in Oceanography: titrations, spectrometry, chromatography etc.
  • Basic techniques for water, sediment and biota sampling.
  • In situ and laboratory measurements of principal parameters: salinity, pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen, BOD/COD.