Concern has increased about the role of man-made noise in the marine environment. To address this, ONR has supported the development of the Effects of Sound on the Marine Environment (ESME) workbench. The initial Graphical User Interface was developed by NRL using Matlab with calls to FORTRAN implementations of acoustic propagation models. The acoustic modeling tools are mostly drawn from ONR’s...

H. Yu, C. Wu, D. Wu, and J. Z. Yu Atmospheric, Marine and Coastal Environment Program, Division of Environment, Hong Kong University of Science&Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China Atmospheric Research Center, HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School, Nansha, Guangzhou 511458, China Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Guangzhou 510058,...

Citation: Hardesty BD, Harari J, Isobe A, Lebreton L, Maximenko N, Potemra J, van Sebille E, Vethaak AD and Wilcox C (2017) Using Numerical Model Simulations to Improve the Understanding of Micro-plastic Distribution and Pathways in the Marine Environment. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:30. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00030 Using Numerical Model Simulations to Improve the Understanding of Micro-plastic Distrib...

Four recently completed genome projects on marine Cyanobacteria have started the age of comparative genomics for marine microbes. Cyanobacteria are a group of photoautotrophic bacteria that have traditionally been under-represented in studies of complete genome sequences, as have microbes from the marine environment in general. The new genome information is of crucial importance to understandin...

Citation: Suaria G, Aliani S, Merlino S and Abbate M (2018) The Occurrence of Paraffin and Other Petroleum Waxes in the Marine Environment: A Review of the Current Legislative Framework and Shipping Operational Practices. Front. Mar. Sci. 5:94. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00094 The Occurrence of Paraffin and Other Petroleum Waxes in the Marine Environment: A Review of the Current Legislative Framew...

a Victorian Marine Science Consortium, PO Box 114, Queenscliff, Vic 3225, Australia b Department of Zoology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic 3052, Australia c Arthur Rylah Institute, Department of Sustainability and Environment Victoria, PO Box 137, Heidelberg, Vic 3084, Australia d Marine and Freshwater Fisheries Research Institute, DPI Queenscliff Centre, PO Box 114, Queenscliff, ...

In the terrestrial environment, it is the cadastre and initiatives such as the creation of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) that are facilitating greater decision making in areas of sustainable development. The ability of such tools and initiatives to facilitate effective decision-making and spatial data access mechanisms within the marine environment has given rise to research into a marine ...

petroleum hydrocarbons are important energy resources used by industry and in our daily life, whose production contributes highly to environmental pollution. to control such risk, bioremediation constitutes an environmentally friendly alternative technology that has been established and applied. it constitutes the primary mechanism for the elimination of hydrocarbons from contaminated sites by ...

Knowledge on the effects of pharmaceuticals on aquatic marine ecosystems is limited. The aim of this study was therefore to establish the effect thresholds of pharmaceutical compounds occurring in the Belgian marine environment for the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum, and subsequently perform an environmental risk assessment for these substances. Additionally, a screening-level risk ass...

Development of microbial biofilms and the recruitment of propagules on the surfaces of man-made structures in the marine environment cause serious problems for the navies and for marine industries around the world. Current antifouling technology is based on the application of toxic substances that can be harmful to the natural environment. For this reason and the global ban of tributyl tin (TBT...