Carbonate Chemistry

Fun fun fun..

  • CO2sys.M. The most up-to-date version of CO2sys for MATLAB. Carbonate system calculator extraordinaire. Check current best practices for guidelines about selections of constants. However, bear in mind this guide was written before the most up-to-date boron-chlorinity relationship was available, so would suggest using the parameterisation of Lee et al. (2010) rather than the default Uppström (1974).
  • Markus Raitzsch has created this excellent R extension that integrates the MyAMI constants (fixed after the comment and reply with Zeebe and Tyrrell) into seacarb... see 10.5281/zenodo.4432146.
  • CO2Calc. This used to be great if you ever found yourself in a meeting (or indeed, at the pub) and in need of some rapid carbonate system calculations: CO2calc. It was a free app for Mac OSX and iOS, however, I don't think it is compatible with the most recent iOS and MacOS versions - schade!

    • Statistics

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    Writing and Typesetting

    Referencing and TeX Links
  • LaTeX Thesis Template. Word can be a nightmare for writing a thesis.. Writing in LaTeX is a lot easier, and eliminates a lot of faff with regards linking Figure, Equation and Table Numbers, updating references, etc. However, if you've not used LaTeX before, writing something as big as a thesis can be a daunting task. On the suggestion of a good friend, I used the excellent thesis template written by Sunil Patel. It's a great template to start from, and makes thesis writing a lot less painful. I can't recommend it enough. You can download it from here.
  • Zotero. There are lots of tools out there for reference management, but Zotero has always been good to me. It's a free open-source reference manager, with a great community of people behind it, and citation/bibliography styles uploaded for a huge range of journals. It can be used as either a standalone program, just like EndNote, or alternatively you can use it as a built in component of Firefox. A handy button appears in the address bar when you navigate to a paper, and you just click it to import into your Zotero library. In combination with the Zot2Bib Firefox add-on, you can automatically export to both your Zotero library (for use in Microsoft Word) and your BibTex library (for use in LaTeX).