A program that focuses on the scientific study of the chemical components, mechanisms, structure, and movement of ocean waters and their interaction with terrestrial and atmospheric phenomena. Includes instruction in material inputs and outputs, chemical and biochemical transformations in marine systems, equilibria studies, inorganic and organic ocean chemistry, oceanographic processes, sediment transport, zone processes, circulation, mixing, tidal movements, wave properties, and seawater properties

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Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers Hydrologists Natural Sciences Managers