On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on a British Petroleum (BP) Deep Water Horizon platform, and 2 days later, the platform collapsed. Eleven workers were killed, and oil has been gushing out ever since. Although the initial reports were that about 50,000 gal were being released per day, every few weeks, the estimates released to the American public increased, until in early June, the comp...

The MIT Laboratory for Autonomous Marine Sensing Systems (LAMSS) has continued its interdisciplinary research under the GOATS project, initiated in 1998 in collaboration between MIT and NURC, and as such a seamless continuation of the research effort under the previous grant N00014-08-1-0013. The principal objective is to develop, implement and demonstrate real-time, onboard integrated acoustic...

The MIT Laboratory for Autonomous Marine Sensing Systems (LAMSS) has continued its interdisciplinary research under the GOATS project, initiated in 1998 in collaboration between MIT and NURC, and as such a seamless continuation of the research effort under the previous grant N00014-05-1-0255. The principal opjective is to develop, implement and demonstrate real-time, onboard integrated acoustic...

Marine economy plays an important role in the growth of the global economy. With its continuous development in the past years, the driving roll of marine economy in China’s economy has become remarkable. It is of strategic significance for China’s economic sustainable development to strengthen the exploration of marine resources and promote the quality and profit of the marine economy. To explo...

The wide chemical and biological diver extraordinary source of high added value served in the marine environment makes the ocean an nds (HAVC) which can be employed in many applications. d proteins from marine sources have unique features and, found in parts of marine organisms that are commonly of the chief methodo

The innate immune system of fish is the primary defense against acute diseases. The marine medaka Oryzias melastigma has been shown to be a potential marine fish model for ecotoxicology, but little is known about the innate immune system of this small fish. In this study, suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) was used to identify differentially expressed immune genes in the liver of O. me...

Secondary (i.e., heterotrophic or animal) production is a main pathway of energy flow through an ecosystem as it makes energy available to consumers, including humans. Its estimation can play a valuable role in the examination of linkages between ecosystem functions and services. We found that oil and gas platforms off the coast of California have the highest secondary fish production per unit ...

The U.S. Navy’s use of tactical mid-frequency active sonar has been linked to marine mammal strandings and fatalities (NMFS 2001). These events have generated legal challenges to the Navy’s peacetime use of mid-frequency sonar, and have limited the Navy’s at-sea anti-submarine warfare training time. Beaked whales may be particularly sensitive to mid-frequency sonar. A mobile, persistent surveil...

Actinobacteria are prolific producers of thousands of biologically active natural compounds with diverse activities. More than half of these bioactive compounds have been isolated from members belonging to actinobacteria. Recently, rare actinobacteria existing at different environmental settings such as high altitudes, volcanic areas, and marine environment have attracted attention. It has been...