Department of Marine Science and
Environmental Studies
Spring 2006
MARS452/MARS 512
PHYSICAL AND
CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
MWF
Lab M 2:30 - 6:30 PM ST 174
Insturctor:
Anne Sturz, ST 274; ext 4096; email
asturz@sandiego.edu
web page http://www.sandiego.edu/~asturz/
MARS 451/MARS 512 is an interdisciplinary,
in-depth study
of the physics and chemistry of ocean water,
ocean circulation, waves,
and tides designed for Marine Science majors and minors.
Prerequisites:
Chemistry 152/152L, Physics 137 or 271, Marine Science 120, and
Mathematics 150.
Texts
Tomczak and Godfrey Regional
Oceanography
(T&G)
Open University Press Marine Biogeochemical Cycles 2nd edition (OUP-MBC)
Open University
Press Seawater:
its composition, properties and behaviour 2nd edition (OUP-S)
Link to Texas A&M dictionaries
Additional readings
from primary scientific literature
Text
Chapter
Topic
Week 1
1/27 OUP-MBC 2.1
Global
biogeochemical
cycles
OUP-S 2, 7
Seawater and the global cycle
T&G
1
What
drives the ocean
currents?
Week
2 1/30
T&G
2, 3
Temperature, salinity, density,
potential temperature
Oceanic
pressure
field, Ekman transport
OUP-S 4
Density and pressure in the
oceans
Olbers et al.
The dynamical balance, transport
and circulation
of the Antarctic
Circumpolar Current. Antarctic
Science
16:439-470
(2004)
link
to Rossby wave
Note:
Friday 2/3 All Faith Service shortened schedule
class begins at
Week
3 2/6 T&G
3, 4
Dynamic
topography, steric
height, geostrophy,
Ekmann
pumping, Sverdrup balance, satellite
oceanography
link to TAMU Oceanworld http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/ocng_textbook/chapter06/chapter06_05.htm
Week
4 2/13
T&G 5, 6
Water mass
identification, subduction,
thermohaline circulation,
global heat budget,
Southern Ocean
Jacobs
Bottom water
production and
its
links
with the thermohaline
circulation. Antarctic Science
16:
427-438 (2004)
Week
5 2/20
T&G 7, 8, 9
Arctic Ocean, Pacific
Ocean
SSH for the
Malaysian Marine region. Marine
Geodesy
24:
99-106 (2001)
link to NOAA
PMEL http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/home/data.shtml
Week
6 2/27
T&G 11-15
Collins et al.
The California
Current
system off Monterey, California:
physical and biological coupling.
Deep-Sea Research II
50:
2389-2404 (2003)
link to NOAA
AOML http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/wbcts/index.php
link to Oceans of the World http://pao.cnmoc.navy.mil/pao/Educate/OceanTalk2/indexoceans.htm
Week
7 3/6
OUP-S 3
Salinity in the oceans
OUP-MBC
Biological particulates, the importance of
organic matter
2.1, 2.2.1-2.2.2
Conservative and
non-conservative behavior of
ions
EXAM 1 in Lab Monday
March 6
Spring Break March 13 - 17
Week 8 3/20 OUP-S 6 The seawater solution
OUP-MBC
2.5 Air-sea interface, gas
solubility
OUP-MBC
Distribution
of elements in seawater, ion speciation
2.2.3-2.2.4
Week 9
3/27
OUP-MBC
Biolimiting elements, vertical
and horizontal segregation
2.3, 2.4
Passier et al.
Sulphidic
Mediterranean surface waters during Pliocene
sapropel
formation. Nature 397:
146-149 (1999)
Kemp et al.
The role of
mat-froming diatoms in the formation of
Mediterranean
sapropels. Nature
398: 57-61 (1999)
Week
10
4/3 OUP-S 6.3.3-6.3.4 Trace
elements; anoxic environments
OUP-MBC
Authigenesis, diagenesis and clay
minerals
5.1, 5.2
Week
11 4/10 OUP-MBC
4.3.3 Carbonate Chemistry
EXAM 2 in Lab Monday
April 10
Week
12
4/17
No
formal class
meeting
work on
lab calculations
Week
13 4/24
OUP-S
6.3.1,
6.3.2
The carbonate system
Sabine
et al.
Seasonal
CO2 fluxes in the tropical and subtropical
Indian Ocean.
Gehlen et
al. Reassessing the
dissolution
of marine carbonates:
I.
Solubility. Deep-Sea Reseach 52:
1445-1460 (2005)
Week
14
5/1
Hydrothermal systems
Wheat
& Mottl Composition of
pore
and sping
waters from Baby
Bare: Global
implications of geochemical fluxes
from a ridge flank
hydrothermal system
Geochemica
et Cosmochimica Acta
64:
629-642
(2000)
Week
15
5/8
Biogeochemical budgets
Wheat &
Mottl GCA (2000)
Week 16
5/15
Catchup and review for final
exam, Lab Report due
FINAL EXAM
Friday May
Grades will be based
on 3
lecture exams @ 100 points each and 2 lab reports @ 100 points
each.
Lecture exams will be given during lab. The exams
are open
book, open note.
Please see the lab syllabus for further details about
lab
reports.
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