The world's oceans are governed as a system of over 150 sovereign exclusive economic zones (EEZs, ∼42% of the ocean) and one large high seas (HS) commons (∼58% of ocean) with essentially open access. Many high-valued fish species such as tuna, billfish, and shark migrate around these large oceanic regions, which as a consequence of competition across EEZs and a global race-to-fish on the HS, ha...

for the 18 Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas Conference, 2016 Net sediment transport by tidal asymmetry in the hyper-turbid Ems River J.C. Winterwerp, J. Vroom, Z.-B. Wang and M. Krebs

Deep seas cover more than half the planet and depend due to their lack of light on inflow of nutrients from above. Viruses play a critical role for the trophic supply of the deep-sea environments.