Marine Isotope Chemistry
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this advanced course on marine isotope geochemistry, covering how isotopes trace ocean processes and history within the broader earth system. The curriculum is organized into four sections: nuclear systematics, Earth formation and evolution, stable isotopes, and applications to ocean chemistry. Materials include lecture notes and problem sets that build both theoretical understanding of isotope systems and practical skills for working with them. The course suits students with a background in chemistry or earth science who want to understand how isotopic signatures reveal ocean circulation, mixing, and long-term geochemical cycles. As with other MIT OCW offerings, all materials are free to access online under a Creative Commons license, with no certificate offered, since this is a self-study archive of an actual MIT course rather than an interactive platform.