Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry

Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry

The fields of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry explore chemical and geochemical processes in the oceans, the solid earth, and the atmosphere.

Areas of advanced study and research include:

• Atmosphere-ocean chemistry feedbacks
• Physical and inorganic chemistry of seawater
• Ocean circulation and mixing based on chemical and isotopic tracers
• Marine organic and natural products chemistry
• Marine bioinorganic chemistry
• Geochemical interactions of sediments with seawater and interstitial waters
• Geochemistries of volcanic and geothermal phenomena
• Biogeochemical cycles of carbon, oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, iron and other elements
• Isotopic geochemistry of the solid earth and meteorites
• Atmospheric trace gas chemistry
• The ocean's and earth's geochemical history recorded in polar ice cores, corals and sediments
• The chemistry of lakes and other freshwater systems
• The impacts of anthropogenic activities on geochemical cycle