Adaptive control methods are suitable for offshore steel structures subject to harmful vibrations, as they employ reference models adapt coastal and nearshore physics. To decrease the dependence on accurate characteristics of platform, a compensating measure containing ocean environment is proposed in adaptive scheme. With incomplete states driving input, external loads approximated using wavel...

Marine birnavirus (MBVs) infect a wide range of fish and shellfish. Yet their mode of transmission is still unclear. To determine marine plankton serve as a vector for MABVs. The marine birnavirus (MABVs) is a member of Aquabirnavirus and an opportunistic pathogenic form among eukaryotic marine organisms and determine the viral presence in zooplankton as a vector, molecular diagnosis can be use...

Cylindrical structures are commonly used in offshore engineering, for example, a tensionleg platform TLP . Prediction of hydrodynamic loadings on those cylindrical structures is one of important issues in design of those marine structures. This study aims to provide a numerical model to simulate fluid-structure interaction around the cylindrical structures and to estimate those loadings using t...

Genomics and metagenomics have revolutionized our understanding of marine microbial ecology and the importance of microbes in global geochemical cycles. However, the process of DNA sequencing has always been an abstract extension of the research expedition, completed once the samples were returned to the laboratory. During the 2013 Southern Line Islands Research Expedition, we started the first...

Across many scientific domains, the ability to aggregate disparate datasets enables more meaningful global analyses. Within marine biology, the Census of Marine Life served as the catalyst for such a global data aggregation effort. Under the Census framework, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System was established to coordinate an unprecedented aggregation of global marine biogeography data....

Marine organisms are constituted by materials with a vast range of properties and characteristics that may justify their potential application within the biomedical field. Moreover, assuring the sustainable exploitation of natural marine resources, the valorisation of residues from marine origin, like those obtained from food processing, constitutes a highly interesting platform for development...

A collaboration has been established between the University of New Hampshire’s (UNH) Joint Center for Ocean Observing Technology and NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) to adapt and deploy an autonomous carbon dioxide measurement system on a moored platform in the coastal Western Gulf of Maine. This buoy provides high-resolution timeseries measurements of atmospheric and ocean...

This paper reviews recent developments in the prediction of the likely future corrosion losses and of the maximum pit depth for steels exposed to marine environments. A robust mathematical model based on corrosion science principles and calibrated for immersion conditions to an extensive range of literature and new data is described. The model has provided explanations for the effects of steel ...

The Saguenay St. Lawrence Marine Park (SSLMP) and the adjacent Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the St. Lawrence Estuary, in Quebec, cover a territory of exceptional biodiversity including 12 species of marine mammals, nearly half of which are considered to be endangered species. Whale-watching trips and other human activities related to commercial shipping, tourism, and recreation generate very ...