Aeromonas spp., opportunistic pathogens of humans and fish, are ubiquitous in the aquatic environment. Aeromonas hydrophila and Aeromonas caviae have increasingly been isolated from patients with gastroenteritis and superficial wound infections and the former also has been associated with hemorrhagic septicemia in fish. This is the first study to report Aeromonas occurrence and frequency of vir...

It is highly likely that coastal erosion due to long-term sea level rise associated with global warming will have a significant impact on Australia’s coastal systems, and any associated infrastructure, over the next century. Long-term coastal erosion is thought to occur largely through sudden-onset storm events. Therefore, attempting to quantify this natural hazard is critical to future develop...

The coastal zone is a complex environment in which a variety of forcing factors interact causing shoreline evolution. Coastal managers seek to predict coastal evolution and to identify regions vulnerable to erosion. Here, a Bayesian network is developed to identify the primary factors influencing decadal-scale shoreline evolution of European coasts and to reproduce the observed evolution trends...

Introduct ion Data assimilation is the process of combining our knowledge of a system, including both observations and dynamics, to produce estimates of the state of a system. The state of a system, or state variable, describes the physical, chemical, or biological environment. Real, four-dimensional systems are generally under-sampled. This is particularly true in the coastal marine environmen...

1 Department of Geography and Environment, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA, USA, 2 Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, NY, USA, 3 Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, Eastern Marine and Coastal Resources Research Center, Rayong, Thailand, 4 Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ...

Citation: Ozbay G, Chintapenta LK, Cannon A and Hannum K (2017) Effects of Microbial and Heavy Metal Contaminants on Environmental/Ecological Health and Revitalization of Coastal Ecosystems in Delaware Bay. Front. Environ. Sci. 5:26. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2017.00026 Effects of Microbial and Heavy Metal Contaminants on Environmental/Ecological Health and Revitalization of Coastal Ecosystems in Dela...

Considering the strategic importance of coastal areas from various aspects, their protection against waves is a coast management necessity. Since long ago, strong coastal structures have protected coasts, but since they disturb the coastal ecosystem balance, effort has been made to use them less or make them more compatible with the coast. This research is specifically aimed to estimate the eff...

1 Department of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases), University of British Columbia, Faculties of Medicine and Science, and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2 Department of Microbiology and Immunology (Division of Infectious Diseases), University of British Columbia, Faculties of Medicine and Science, and Vancouver Coastal Health R...

Given incontrovertible evidence that humans are the most powerful agents of environmental change on the planet, research has begun to acknowledge and integrate human presence and activity into updated descriptions of the world’s biomes as “anthromes”. Thus far, a classification system for anthromes is limited to the terrestrial biosphere. Here, I present a case for the consideration and validit...

Since the liberation of Kuwait in 1991 research and environment institutions have investigated the impact of war on the environment of Kuwait. The information acquired on the environment and soil has been large in magnitude and comprises of many components relating to soil characteristics; terrestrial, marine and coastal environments; public health; and ground water. Most of the research studie...