Marine Chemistry, Ocean Chemistry, Chemistry of Seawater

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Current Stories and Reports

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General Information

Dangers of Ocean Acidification
Much of the carbon dioxide given off from the burning of acid balance of seawater. The repercussions for marine. Article, 2006. Scientific American, USA - [e]

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Lecture Notes, Tutorials

Activity Scales and Activity Corrections
Lecture notes in seawater chemistry. University of Washington, USA - Format: PDF - [e]

Chemical Equilibrium
Lecture notes in seawater chemistry. University of Washington, USA - Format: PDF - [e]

Chemical Oceanography
Lecture notes - [e]

Chemical Oceanography
Lecture notes. University of Washington, USA - [e]

Major Ions of Seawater
Lecture notes in seawater chemistry. University of Washington, USA - Format: PDF - [e]

Marine Chemistry
Lecture notes. Stanford University - Format: PDF - [e]

Mass Balance - The Cornerstone of Chemical Oceanography
Lecture notes in seawater chemistry. University of Washington, USA - Format: PDF - [e]

Ocean acidification
... due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. RSC - Format: PDF - [e]

Properties of Water and Seawater
Lecture notes in seawater chemistry. University of Washington, USA - Format: PDF - [e]

Seawater Chemistry
Lecture notes - [e]

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Special Information

Chemical Transformations and Fluxes in the Ocean
PDF broschure: marine chemistry. University of Kiel - Format: PDF - [d, e]

Marine Past Global Change
IMAGES - The International Marine Past Global Change Study - [e]

Modeling in Marine Chemistry
Modelling of distribution and variability of nutrients in the Sea water - [e]

Seaweed
Source of general information on all aspects of seaweeds - [e]

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Data and Databases

British Oceanographic Data Centre
BODC is a national facility for looking after and distributing data concerning the marine environment - [e]

ICES Oceanographic Database
ICES is the organisation that coordinates and promotes marine research in the North Atlantic - [e]

International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set
ICOADS - [e]

National Oceanographic Data Center
NODC is a national repository and dissemination facility for global oceanographic data which acquires and preserves a historical record of the Earth's changing environment to be used for operational applications and ocean climate research - [e]

Ocean Drilling Data
Deep Sea Drilling Project & Ocean Drilling Program Data. NGDC, USA - [e]

United Nations Atlas of the Oceans
... is an information system designed for use by policy makers who need to become familiar with ocean issues and by scientists, students and resource managers who need access to underlying data bases and approaches to sustainability - [e]

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Journals

Marine and Freshwater Research
Original, significant and widely-cited research papers from across the world on topics as diverse as wetland and coral reef ecology, hydrology and oceanography, marine and freshwater ecosystem processes, fisheries sciences and estuarine sediment biogeochemistry. CSIRO, USA - [e]

Marine Chemistry
... is an international medium for the publication of original studies and occasional reviews in the field of chemistry in the marine environment, with emphasis on the dynamic approach. Elsevier - [e]

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
... is an international journal of aquatic science that is published for researchers and resource managers in research institutions, universities, museums, regional authorities, and other organisations worldwide. Royal Society Of New Zealand - [e]

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Articles and Reports

Ancient Ocean Chemistry
Earth's early ocean cooled more than a billion years earlier than thought: Stanford study - [e]

Fishdunnit! Mystery solved
Fish guts explain marine carbon cycle mystery - [e]

The Marine Nitrogen Cycle - Revisited
Predicting the ocean's role for global climate requires a profound understanding of the cycling of matter in the sea. Regarding nitrogen losses, scientists were apparently off the mark. A novel study reveals the complex interactions in the nitrogen cycle of the Eastern Tropical South Pacific oxgen minimum zone. - [d, e]

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Research facilities and departments

Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, ICBM
The scientific concept of the ICBM is based on the realization, that research of the seas, being one of the most manifold global systems, can only be successful using interdisciplinary methods. University of Oldenburg - [d, e]

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Organisations

Australian Marine Sciences Association
AMSA is Australia's major professional association for marine scientists from all disciplines - [e]

Other notes:

Related Books and Scientific Literature: Marine Chemistry:

Steven Emerson, John Hedges

Chemical Oceanography and the Marine Carbon Cycle

The principles of chemical oceanography provide insight into the processes regulating the marine carbon cycle. The text offers a background in chemical oceanography and a description of how chemical elements in seawater and ocean sediments are used as tracers of physical, biological, chemical and geological processes in the ocean. The first seven chapters present basic topics of thermodynamics, isotope systematics and carbonate chemistry, and explain the influence of life on ocean chemistry and how it has evolved in the recent (glacial-interglacial) past. This is followed by topics essential to understanding the carbon cycle, including organic geochemistry, air-sea gas exchange, diffusion and reaction kinetics, the marine and atmosphere carbon cycle and diagenesis in marine sediments.

Ideal as a textbook for upper-level undergraduates and graduates in oceanography, environmental chemistry, geochemistry and earth science and a valuable reference for researchers in oceanography.

Cambridge University Press; 2008