Vol.
28 No. 6
November-December 2006
GEOTRACE — Chemistry Takes Center Stage in Marine Science
by
David Turner
The
enormous breadth and range of applications of modern chemistry
are reflected in the wide range of activities within IUPAC.
As a result, individual chemists can often feel that their
own (all important!) specialization is under represented in
IUPAC ’s work. As a marine chemist, I am not immune to
those feelings, but can at the same time point to some significant
IUPAC contributions to marine science from the Analytical
Chemistry Division (V) and the Chemistry and the Environment
Division (VI). Much of the work of Division V on critical
evaluation of stability constants and on chemical speciation
modelling has been relevant to seawater systems, and in some
cases specifically directed at seawater. Division VI has also
contributed to marine sciences through books published in
the “IUPAC
Series on Analytical and Physical Chemistry of Environmental
Systems.”
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