Chemical Oceanography, Spring 2012
11:628:472 or 01:628:472 (undergrad); and 16:712:540 (grad)
Time and place:
Monday and Thursday 9:15-10:35 AM (1st period), Thompson Hall, room 101
Instructors:
Silke Severmann
IMCS Room 303D phone 848-932-3488 silke@marine.rutgers.edu
Liz Sikes
IMCS Room 114C phone 848-932-3257 sikes@marine.rutgers.edu
Course Info and grading (click here for pdf):
Syllabus revisions as of December 15, 2011
First class meets Thursday, January 20
assigned
Date
Lecture #
Lecturer
Reading Libes 2nd edition (Libes 1st edition).
Topic
Chapter (pages)
Section I Mass Balances/Nutrients and Biological influences in the Water Column
19-Jan
1
Liz
Major ions/ geochemical mass balance
23-Jan
2
Liz
Rates and Processes /residence time
26-Jan
4 HW1
and biological pump
Silke
Nutrients and distributions/conveyor belt
Chapters 9&10 (pp 221-257)
30-Jan
5
Liz
Nitrogen cycle
2-Feb
6
Liz
Carbon cycle
6-Feb
7
Liz
Organic Matter Production/DOC and
POC in the water column Chapt. 23 (pp609-645, 652-659) (Chapt 23 pp 394-422)
9-Feb
8 HW1due Liz
Dissolved gasses / air-sea gas exchange,
and CO2 Chapt 6 (pp.147-168) Chapt 5.8.3 (pp 141-146)
13-Feb
16- Feb
20-Feb
9
10
11
1.1- 1.4
Chapt 1
2.4- 2.5
Chapt 5
Silke
Silke
EXAM 1
Carbonate System Alkalinity, TCO2
Trace metals and their uses
Section II sediment processes and solid/water interactions
23-Feb
12HW2
Silke
Hydrothermal vent systems and trace
metals exchange (Chapt 19 pp 471-502) (Chapt 19 pp301-316)
(optiona
Chapt. 4
Chapt. 2
Chapt. 2
Also req
Chapt 1
Chapt 5
27-Feb
13
Silke
1-Mar
14HW2 due Silke
5-Mar
15 HW3
Liz Paper topic Due
8-Mar
16
Silke
12 and 15 Mar
SPRING BREAK
The silicon cycle
Radioisotopes
Light Stable isotopes
Heavier and swankier Stable isotopes
(Chapt 1
(Chapt 2
(Chapt 2
19-Mar
Thermodynamics and Redox Chemistry
Chapt 7
Also req
17 HW3 due Liz
22-Mar
18 HW4
Marine Sediments
203)
26-Mar
19
29-Mar
19
2-Apr
20
.
Silke Paper outline Due Redox Chemistry and diagenesis in
Chapt 7.3 (184-189) and Chapt 12 (pp299-324) Chapt 12 (pp189Silke
both
Diagenesis and carbonate sediments
Review/recitation
Chapt 1
EXAM 2
Section III Paleoceanography climate change and ocean geochemistry
5-Apr
21 HW4 due Silke
Paleoceanographic concepts:
Stratigraphy and Chronology
Emerson and Hedges Chapter 7 (pp 219-234)
9-Apr
22
Liz
CO2 atmosphere ocean exchange and
climate Chapt. 25 pp717-724, optional: pp 735-758)
12-Apr
23 HW5
Liz Paper draft
paleo reconstructions of temperature
16-Apr
24
Liz
paleo reconstructions of circulation and
fluxes
Emerson and Hedges Chapter 7 (pp 249-256)
19-Apr
25 HW5 due Silke
Iron and phytoplankton in the ocean
23-Apr
26
both
Paper presentations
26-Apr
27
both Paper due
Paper presentations
30-Apr
28
both
Climate Change “debate” what you need
to know Hot topics in Marine Chemistry/review
???9-May, 1:10-2:30 PM
EXAM 3
Emerso