Chemical oceanography and the marine carbon cycle reflects the two authors wealth of research and teaching experience and the community is fortunate that steve emerson was able to complete this major effort following john hedges untimely death in 2003 this book is a compilation of many years worth of notes used by the authors professors of oceanography at the university of washington for teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Chemical oceanography and the marine carbon cycle mass balances in a complex system like the ocean the discussion of the limita tions of the mackenzie and garrels model leads into the discovery of hydro thermal vents and their importance to global chemical mass balances this section includes the methods used to. Chemical oceanography and the marine carbon cycle theprinciplesofchemicaloceanographyprovideinsightintotheprocesses regulating the marine carbon cycle these topics are essential to under standing the role of the ocean in regulating the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere and climate on both human and geological time scales. The principles of chemical oceanography provide insight into the processes regulating the marine carbon cycle the text offers a background in chemical oceanography and a description of how