12.759 | Spring 2006 | Graduate

Marine Chemistry Seminar

Course Description

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.
Learning Resource Types
Projects
Minerals venting from the seafloor.
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.)