Beschreibung:
Steven R. Emerson has been a professor of Oceanography at the University of Washington for about 40 years. He taught Chemical Oceanography for most of this period while being the major advisor to 12 Ph.D. students and an equal number of post-docs. His research focuses on fluxes at the air-sea interface and the sediment-ocean interface. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Geochemical Society.
Preface; 1. Oceanography background: dissolved chemicals, circulation and biology in the sea; 2. Geochemical mass balance: chemical flow across the ocean's boundaries, 3. Life in the surface ocean: biological production and export; 4. Life in the deep ocean: biological respiration; 5. Marine carbonate chemistry; 6. Stable isotope tracers; 7. Radioisotope tracers; 8. The role of the ocean in the global carbon cycle; Appendices; Index.