MARS 1010 - The Marine Environment In this introductory course, we explore the physical, geological, and chemical processes that define the ocean environment covering over 70% of the earth surface, discover the role of the oceans in climate and weather, their importance to our natural resources, and how apparently land-based processes (like earthquakes, volcanoes, and the shape of our coastlines) relate to the ocean system, and decipher how human activities are changing the ocean. FRES 1010 - Freshmen Seminar Water: The elixir of life Water is central to life on Earth and potentially elsewhere. In this seminar, we will cover chemical and physical properties of water and study its global cycle. We will discuss its importance for the development of life and adaptations of aquatic organisms to their environments. Topics will also include the impact of water on society in the past, current issues related to its role as resource as drinking water, water pollution, water scarcity, coastal water usage and the impact of global climate change. The aquatic world & the footprint of the human giant Get to know a variety of aquatic habitats, and gain insight into how they are connected to and affected by human activities - both on a local, but also a regional and global scale. MARS 4100/6100 - Physical Processes in the Ocean This course is about the physical forces on Earth that cause ocean motion and the geological forces that determine the ocean basin and coastal morphologies. It provides the student with the necessary skills to carry out mathematical calculations while understanding their limitations, and thus giving a physical interpretation of the solutions obtained. Participants will use ocean observatory data, that can be obtained from a number of sources, to examine a specific feature of interest and present their results to the class and in a project report. MARS 4200/6200 - Chemical & Biological Oceanography This course is an introduction to understanding the chemical and biological processes in the oceans. It covers the distributions of elements and nutrients in the oceans and the processes affecting them, and links biological activity to chemical patterns. MARS 4810/6810 - Microbial Biogeochemistry This course focuses on the study of the microbial processes important in modifying the earth's lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere. It provides a detailed overview of Microbial Biogeochemistry in a variety of aquatic habitats and covers both qualitative and quantitative aspects. Students will be introduced to research on biogeochemistry and elemental cycling over time scales ranging from modern to the early Earth. MARS 4810/6810 - Global Biogeochemical Cycles An overview of global biogeochemical cycles, with emphasis on the role of the ocean, including box models and both fundamental principles and quantitative analyses. Focus is on modern day conditions, but glacial-interglacial changes and effects of global change are included. MARS 8020 - Chemical Oceanography This course covers a wide range of topics in chemical oceanography/marine chemistry. Students are expected to have knowledge in general chemistry and oceanography. MARS 8130 - Seminar in Hydrobiology: Introduction to Reactive Transport Modeling This seminar course is based on a weekly discussion of papers and/or book chapters covering a variety of aspects in reactive transport modeling in aqueous systems. Process modeling and data analysis in aquatic sciences This class provides an overview of modeling approaches in the geosciences, including process-based reactive transport models and data-driven methods of dimensionality reduction and time-series analysis, and machine learning.
