Academic Catalog

MASC528 GEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Course Code:	9500528
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):	3(3-0)
ECTS Credit:	8.0
Department:	Graduate School Of Marine Sciences
Language of Instruction:	English
Level of Study:	Graduate
Course Coordinator:	Lecturer Dr. VALERÝA IBELLO
Offered Semester:	Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Descriptive and quantitative aspects of earth as bio-geochemical system; fundamental study methods of equilibria; transport processes; chemical kinetics; biological processes; their application to carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, phosphorus and other elemental cycles; stability of bio-geochemical systems; nature of human perturbation of their dynamics.