We have measured the densities of aqueous solutions of serine, serine plus equimolal HCl, and serine plus equimolal NaOH at temperatures 278.15 <= T/K <= 368.15, molalities 0.01 <= m/mol center dot kg(-1) <= 1.0, and at the pressure p = 0.35 MPa, using a vibrating tube densimeter. We have also measured the heat capacities of these solutions at 278.15 <= T/K <= 393.15 and at the same m and p using a fixed-cell differential temperature-scanning calorimeter. We used the densities to calculate apparent molar volumes VP and the heat capacities to calculate apparent molar heat capacities C-p,C-phi for these solutions. We used our results and values from the literature for V-phi(Tm) and C-p,C-phi(Tm) for HCl(aq), NaOH(aq), and NaCl(aq) and the molar heat capacity change Delta C-r(p,m)(Tm) for ionization of water to calculate Delta C-r(p,m)(T,m) for proton dissociations from protonated aqueous cationic serine and from the zwitterionic form. We integrated these results in an iterative algorithm using Young's rule to account for the effects of speciation and chemical relaxation on the observed V-phi(Tm) and C-p,C-phi(Tm) of the solutions. This procedure yielded parameters for V-phi(Tm) and Cp,(phi)(T,m) for serinium chloride {H(2)Ser(+)Cl(-)(aq)} and for sodium serinate {Na(+)Gly(-) (aq)} which successfully modeled our observed results. We have then calculated Delta C-r(p,m), Delta(r),H-m, Delta rV(m) and pQ(a) for the first and second proton dissociations from protonated aqueous serine as functions of T and m. (C) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.