Intergovernmental policy is targeting public ocean literacy to help achieve the societal changes needed reach a sustainable agenda within 10-year timeframe. To create culture of care for ocean, which under threat from Anthropocentric pressures, informed citizens are central upholding meaningful actions and best practices. This research focuses on recreational users, specifically surfers how the...

Since the release of its home console, "Wii," Nintendo had fought mostly successfully off competition in gaming market by using a blue ocean strategy. The strategy is idea to create new space with no or minimal through differentiation, low cost, and innovation. It not compete against but demand make irrelevant instead. Nintendo's first step pursuing was get out Red Ocean, where there none befor...

Marine Synechococcus has successfully adapted to environments with different light colors, which likely contributes to this genus being the second most abundant group of microorganisms worldwide. Populations of Synechococcus that grow in deep, blue ocean waters contain large amounts of the blue-light absorbing chromophore phycourobilin (PUB) in their light harvesting complexes (phycobilisomes)....

In the Southwestern Indian Ocean, one year of continuous acoustic data from calibrated hydrophones maintained by the International Monitoring System provided data on blue whale calls from two subspecies Antarctic and pygmy blue whales. Using an automatic detection method with a fixed threshold, both call types were detected and received levels were measured for each detected call. By using a pa...

Interannual variability in the abundances of blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) in populations along the U.S. east coast is well documented, but the mechanisms driving these fluctuations remain poorly understood. Using principal component analysis and dynamic factor analysis we quantified the patterns in variability and the degree of synchrony among blue crab populations along the U.S. east coast ...

Climate change and ocean management are significant challenges for small island developing states (SIDS). Compounding these challenges, research suggests that the ability of SIDS to enact environmental governance, their mobilise international support, remain constrained by resource limitations broader geopolitical discourses marginality. However, Seychelles’ Government has challenged imaginarie...

Blue (Balaenoptera musculus) and fin whales (B. physalus) produce high-intensity, low-frequency calls, which probably function for communication during mating and feeding. The source levels of blue and fin whale calls off the Western Antarctic Peninsula were calculated using recordings made with calibrated, bottom-moored hydrophones. Blue whales were located up to a range of 200 km using hyperb...

An ocean general circulation model (OGCM) with wetting and drying (WAD) capabilities removes the vertical-wall coastal assumption and allows simultaneous modeling of open-ocean currents and water run-up (and run-down) across movable land–sea boundaries. This paper implements and tests such a WAD scheme for the Princeton Ocean Model (POM) in its most general three-dimensional setting with strati...

Recent research has found a high spatial and temporal correlation between certain baleen whale vocalizations and peak herring spawning processes in the Gulf of Maine. These vocalizations are apparently related to feeding activities with suggested functions that include communication, prey manipulation, and echolocation. Here, the feasibility of the echolocation function is investigated. Physica...

John Wiedenmann Implications of Climate Change for Antarctic Krill and Their Cetacean Predators Antarctic krill are the dominant prey for many predators in the Southern Ocean. A changing climate may affect the biomass of krill available to both predators and the fishery, and being able to predict such changes, and subsequent impacts on krill predators is essential for the effective management o...