有机地球化学

This 64-credit-hours postgraduate level course, to be delivered viaregular online and/or offline lectures and laboratory practicum will enable theattendees to have: 1) a deeper and holistic understanding of the origin oforganic matter in the ocean, and its preservation, migration and degradation(natural attenuation) processes and how such processes are embodied in carboncycles on various temporal and spatial scales; 2) to utilize a combination ofpretreatment techniques to efficiently and reliably isolate target molecules ofinterest from ocean matrices, and to structurally and isotopically characterizethe target molecules effectively with a range of analytical instrumentations,and 3) to apply the structural and isotopic fingerprints of marine organicmolecules to the elucidation of biosynthetic pathways, mechanisms of metabolicreactions, extraction of environmental and climatic signals, and to predict thefate of marine organic molecules in the context of oil and gas generationpotential and environmental consequences.