This paper investigates the seasonal variabilities of the South China Sea isopycnal-surface circulations and of the Kuroshio intrusion through the Luzon Strait using the U.S. Navy’s climatological temperature and salinity dataset (public domain) with 1⁄28 3 1⁄28 resolution by the P-vector method. The representative pattern is a persistent basin-scale cyclonic circulation away from the surface, ...

Introduction: The Cassini spacecraft has been orbiting in the Saturn system since July 2004. Remote sensing instruments have discovered dunes, river beds, lakes, seas, impact craters, mountains and cryovolcanic features [e.g. 1 7]. Titan’s activity is somehow similar to that of Earth with methane and ethane playing the role of water and ice that of silicates. In Titan’s surface condition (P=1.5...

The Ponto-Caspian (Black and Caspian seas) brackish-water fauna represents a special case of the endemic diversification in world's ancient lakes; it also involves a hotspot of continental diversity in the predominantly marine mysid crustaceans. We explored the origins and history of the mysid diversification in a phylogenetic analysis of some 20 endemic Ponto-Caspian species mainly of the genu...

[1] The late Neoproterozoic era, 600–800 Myr ago, was marked by at least two intervals of widespread cold that left glacial deposits at low paleolatitudes. Both ‘‘Snowball’’ solutions with global ice cover and ‘‘Slushball’’ solutions with ice-free tropical oceans have been proposed to explain the paleomagnetic data. The Snowball model is best able to explain the auxiliary geological evidence, p...

Water has several unique physical and chemical properties that have influenced Life as it has evolved. Indeed the very concept of Life on the Earth is dependent on water supply. Although the total volume of fresh water on Earth is only a small fraction of that in the oceans, the biological and environmental role of freshwater systems is considerable. Environmental management of water systems (r...

Article history: Received on: 11/04/2016 Revised on: 09/05/2016 Accepted on: 24/06/2016 Available online: 29/10/2016 Drug resistance in microorganisms is an emerging phenomenon that poses challenges to public health and treatment. The reservoir of drug resistance genes found in the resistome of environmental isolates in aquatic saline systems has been augmenting continuously. The spread of drug...

Insect drift on shore of lakes and seas is a relatively common phenomenon although apparently not frequently reported in the literature. Here we review the worldwide occurrence of insect drift with emphasis on Heteroptera, and speculate on possible causes to explain such phenomenon. The dramatic drift of millions of specimens of the pentatomid Mayrinia curvidens (Mayr) on the shore of the south...

In order to obtain the maximum amount of energy from tidal stream extraction devices, deployment in large arrays should be studied. The area of seabed with favorable conditions is fairly limited; therefore layout spacing has to be optimized. In this paper a feasibility study for a novel experimental facility, suitable for the testing of an array of tidal devices, is presented. To avoid space an...