OCEANOGRAPHY AND MANAGEMENT OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT

• Hydrological cycle.
• Molecular structure of water and its significance.
• Seawater and its physicochemical properties, residence time of elements in the sea.
• Trace elements in seawater.
• Dissolved and particulate organic matter.
• Biogeochemical processes and balances in the marine environment.
• Primary and secondary productivity, photosynthesis, mass-energy flux from phytoplankton towards higher trophic levels.
• Carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, phosphorus, silicon cycles.
• Chemistry of marine sediments, redox balances.
• Extreme marine environments.

Laboratory:

• Principal sampling techniques for water, sediments, biota.
• Methods of in situ/laboratory measurements of principal parameters.
• Determination of seawater salinity and density.
• Determination of dissolved oxygen.
• Determinations of organic-inorganic carbon.
• Determination of nutrients: nitrites, nitrates, ammonium, phosphate ions.
• Determination methods for herbal pigments, proteins, carbohydrates and lipids.