Guia docente 2023_24 Facultade de Ciencias do Mar

Methodologies

	Description
Lecturing	Presentation of fundamental contents of the course, supported by graphic material.
Seminars	Using data and scientific articles, specific topics are exlored in detail. Subjects tackled include, amongst others, the ecology and biogeochemical role of diatoms and coccolithophores, the ecological and biogeochemical importance of iron, and ocean acidification.
Problem solving	Practical cases are solved using real data presented numerically and graphically.
Practices through ICT	Numerical modelling of the carbon biogeochemical cycle. Analysis of data on the size-scaling of phytoplankton abundance, biomass and metabolism.