Minerals venting from the seafloor provide chemosynthetic sustenance for bacteria, some of Earth's earliest life. (Image courtesy of P. Rona, OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP), and NOAA.)
Prof. Benjamin Van Mooy
Prof. Daniel Repeta
12.759
Spring 2006
Graduate
The structure of the course is designed to have students acquire a broad understanding of the field of Marine Chemistry; to get a feel for experimental methodologies, the results that they have generated and the theoretical insights they have yielded to date.