Quantitative approaches to groundwater geochemistry problems. Equilibrium thermodynamics, complexation, oxidation-reduction, cation exchange, sorption and partitioning of organics. 

Physical, chemical, and biological processes in the ocean and their interaction with climate and marine food-webs.

Continuous and discrete Fourier transforms, correlation and convolution, spectral estimates, optimum least-squares filters, deconvolution and prediction, frequency-wave number filtering. A practical course on computer techniques applied to the analysis of a wide range of geophysical phenomena.

Introduction to tensor calculus and continuum mechanics. Stress, strain and strain-rate tensors. Mass, momentum and energy balance. Applications to problems of geophysical heat transport, elasticity and fluid dynamics. [3-0-0] Prerequisite: One of EOSC 250, MATH 317.