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Chapter 1: Introduction
Why are elements not distributed evenly in the ocean? Why are the concentrations of some elements many thousand times lower in seawater in comparison to their concentration in the inflowing rivers? Dynamic versus equilibrium control of ocean chemical concentrations.

Chapter 2: Ocean Transport
Overview of large-scale ocean circulation. Wind-driven circulation, Sverdrup balance, Stommel gyre, thermohaline circulation, mixing, geostrophy, circulation tracers, interannual variability.

Chapter 3: Air-sea interface
Solubility and physics of air-sea gas exchange

Chapter 4: Organic matter production
Primary production in the ocean, primary producers, functional groups, light and nutrient limitation, grazing, seasonal cycle, spring bloom, nitrogen fixation.

Chapter 5: Organic matter export and remineralization
Zooplankton grazing, respiration, bacterial breakdown, denitrification, dissolved organic carbon.

Chapter 8: Carbon cycling
Apply the concepts presented in the earlier chapters to carbon. Follow the "grand cycle" from the surface to the sediments, including the cycling of mineral carbonates. Carbon chemistry, carbon cycling, seasonal variability, carbonate production, export, dissolution and diagenesis.