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Marine Biogeochemistry

Lecturer: Kevin Arrigo
email: arrigo at stanford.edu
phone: 723-3599
office: Y2E2 141
TA: Zach Brown

email: zwbrown at stanford.edu
phone: 736-0688
office: Mitchell A67

Course Info:
• Text Book: Ocean Biogeochemistry by Michael J.R. Fasham, 2003
• Syllabus (Microsoft Word Document)
• Readings Feedback Form
• Grading breakdown: 10% Readings Feedback Form; 90% Activities

Readings:
• For January 12:
  • Circulation, Ocean Structure, Currents (Chapter 8 and Chapter 9, Sverdrup and Armbrust)
• For January 17:
  • Chemistry of seawater (Chapter 6, Sverdrup and Armbrust)
• For January 24 and 26:
  • Nitrogen Cycle (Chapter 1, Gruber)
    Section 1.1-1.3.5 for Jan.24, Section 1.3.6-1.6 for Jan.26
• For January 31:
  • Phytoplankton, primary production (Chapter 4, Fasham)
• For February 2:
  • Elemental stoichiometry (Arrigo et al., 1999, Mills and Arrigo, 2011)
• For February 7:
  • Carbon Cycle (Chapter 8, Sarmiento and Gruber)
• For February 9:
  • Air-sea CO2 fluxes (Chapter 5, Fasham)
• For February 14:
  • Biogeochemistry of the deep ocean (Chapter 6, Fasham)
• For February 16:
  • Climate change feedbacks on C-cycle (Chapter 7, Fasham)
• For February 28:
  • Benthic processes (Chapter 8, Fasham)
• For March 1:
  • Biogeochemical time series (Chapter 10, Fasham)
• For March 13:
  • Global ocean carbon cycle modeling (Chapter 9, Fasham)

Activities:
• Activity 1: Exploring CTD Data Using Google Earth
  - Download the instructions and Google Earth Virtual Field Trip (kmz file) to begin
  - Data File (Excel spreadsheet)
• Activity 2: Primary Production and Nutrients
  - Instructions
  - Data files
• Activity 3: Primary Productivity
  - Instructions
  - Supplementary material:
      - daylength calculator
  
• Activity 4: Box Model
  - Instructions
  - Box Model
  

Websites:
• Download Google Earth at earth.google.com