This course is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in chemical oceanography and geochemistry. It provides details about the principles and applications of different elements and their isotope tracers in chemical oceanography. The subjects range from fundamental concepts in aquatic chemistry to more complex oceanography questions, such as chemical tracers in biogeochemical cycles and ocean circulation. The course describes biogeochemical cycling within the oceanic water column and sediments, emphasizing the roles played by the formation, transport, and alteration of oceanic particles and the effects that these processes have on seawater composition. The course also introduces the applications of box and advection-diffusion models in chemical oceanography.

理論海洋化學課程是針對已具備基礎海洋化學知識的大學部或研究生而設計，課程核心的基本內如包含了提供有關不同元素及其同位素在化學海洋學中的示蹤劑原理和應用以及相關的詳細資訊。主題會從水化學的基本概念到較為複雜的海洋學類問題，例如生物地球化學循環和海洋環流中的化學示蹤劑的問題與應用。這個課程除了會介紹海洋水中沈積物和生物地球化學循環之外，也會強調海洋顆粒的形成、運輸和改變所引起的作用以及這些過程對海水成分的影響。本課程也會介紹箱模型和對流擴散模型在化學海洋學中的應用。