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INTERINSTITUTIONAL POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM NKUA-HCMR
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.