Processes controlling the major and minor element composition of seawater and element distributions in the ocean. Gas exchange, carbon dioxide system, stable isotopes, radionuclides as tracers and chronometers, particle fluxes, organic geochemistry, sediment geochemistry, global cycles of biogeochemically important elements.

Prerequisites: Earth System Science 53 or 60A and 60C.

Earth and Environmental Sciences and Earth and Environmental Studies majors have first consideration for enrollment.