Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Advanced Research in Shipping Informatics and Communications—2nd Edition

edited by

and

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 34537 | Submission Open

Keywords: maritime digitalization; remote monitoring and advanced analytics; maritime cyberphysical security; autonomous and unmanned vessels; cybersecurity training; cybersecurity standards and directives; additive manufacturing in shipping; 5G implementation in shipping; E-navigation technologies in shipping

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Structural Analysis and Failure Prevention in Offshore Engineering

edited by

Selda Oterkus

and

Erkan Oterkus

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12067 | Submission Open

Keywords: offshore renewable energy devices; offshore platforms; subsea pipelines; marine structures; fracture mechanics; corrosion; structural health monitoring; ice-structure interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)

Autonomous Marine Vehicle Operations—3rd Edition

edited by

Xiao Liang

,

Rubo Zhang

and

Xingru Qu

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5965 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous operations; surface and underwater applications; perception; decision-making; control; coordination and game; safety and efficiency

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Energy Efficiency Optimization Technologies for Shipping Decarbonization

edited by

Kai Wang

and

Nikos Themelis

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2830 | Submission Open

Keywords: ship energy efficiency modeling; ship energy consumption prediction; intelligent energy efficiency optimization; voyage optimization technology; clean energy hybrid power system; marine alternative fuel application technology; AI enabling energy efficiency optimization; advanced energy-saving technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Marine Geotechnical Applications in Marine Structures

edited by

Sung-ha Baek

and

Jaehyun Kim

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2510 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine geotechnical engineering; soil– structure interaction; physical modelling; numerical modelling; marine structure design; site investigation; geotechnical property; coastal engineering; marine geophysics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Advances in Intelligent Situation Awareness, Decision-Making and Control for Autonomous Ships

edited by

Mingyang Zhang

and

Wengang Mao

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 194 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous ships; situation awareness; intelligent decision-making; control and maneuvering; machine learning; deep learning models; AI

Advances in the Study of Coastal Processes and Wave Hydrodynamics across Multiple Scales

edited by

Márcia Lima

,

Francisco Sancho

and Alec Torres-Freyermuth

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8017 | Submission Open

Keywords: numerical modeling; run-up; swash; non-linear wave dynamics; wave– current interactions; cross-shore and alongshore transport; wave– current– sediment– morphology interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)

Recent Developments and Advances in Geological Oceanography and Ocean Observation in the Pacific Ocean and Its Marginal Basins—2nd Edition

edited by

Entao Liu

,

Qiangtai Huang

and Jiangong Wei

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 6665 | Submission Open

Keywords: sedimentary evolution; hydrocarbon exploration; tectonic evolution; ocean observation; marine chemistry; Pacific Ocean; oil and gas exploration; source to sink; numerical simulation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Geological Oceanography)

Recent Advances in Maritime Safety and Ship Collision Avoidance

edited by

Pengfei Chen

,

Junmin Mou

and Lei Du

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4964 | Submission Open

Keywords: maritime safety; risk analysis; collision avoidance; decision making; AIS; artificial intelligence; autonomous ship

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Coastal Geochemistry: The Processes of Water–Sediment Interaction

edited by

Aijun Wang

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1707 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal geochemistry; water– sediment interaction; biogeochemical cycling; nutrient dynamics; pollutant transformation; contamination evaluation; ecosystem risk; blue carbon; anthropogenic pressure; climate change impacts

(This special issue belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)

Advances in Marine Natural Products

edited by

Pere Ferriol

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 213 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine natural products; bioactivity; marine biotechnology; drug discovery; sustainable extraction; marine metabolomics; marine symbiosis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)

Numerical Model, Design, and Performance of Ocean Wave Energy Converters

edited by Guilherme Moura Paredes and Claes Eskilsson

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 146 | Submission Open

Keywords: wave energy converters; numerical modeling and optimization; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); extreme ocean conditions; performance assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Plankton Community in Marine Ecological Environment: Latest Advances and Prospects

edited by

Yongsik Sin

and

Genuario Belmonte

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7242 | Submission Open

Keywords: bio-indicators; planktonic interaction; molecular; stable isotope; ecological modeling; marine food webs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Ecology)

Environmental Radioactivity and Its Applications in Marine Areas

edited by Viena Puigcorbé, Olivier Radakovitch,

Georgios Eleftheriou

and Maxi Castrillejo

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4450 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean tracers; radionuclides; environmental radioactivity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Environmental Science)

Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Adaptation

edited by

Massimiliano Marino

and

Pushpa Dissanayake

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 283 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal restoration; climate change mitigation; flood risk reduction; coastal erosion; carbon sequestration; coastal protection; green infrastructures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Environmental Science)

Analysis of Strength, Fatigue, and Vibration in Marine Structures

edited by

Joško Parunov

and

Yordan Garbatov

submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 215 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine structures; ships; floating and fixed offshore structures; submarines; fish farms; renewable energy devices; multi-physics and multi-scale simulations; static and dynamic analyses

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Advanced Research on the Sustainable Maritime Transportation (2nd Edition)

edited by

Xianhua Wu

,

Jian Wu

and

Lang Xu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 15 articles | Viewed by 25812 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable maritime transportation; green shipping; energy efficiency; alternative fuels; emission reduction; maritime safety; maritime accident; port; environmental impact; feasibility study

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Recent Research on the Measurement and Modeling of Sea Ice

edited by

Mark D. Orzech

, David A. Hebert and

Aleksey Marchenko

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10632 | Submission Open

Keywords: sea ice; cryosphere; forecasting; measurement; climate change; marginal ice zone

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)

Cavitation Control in Marine Engineering: Modelling and Experiment

edited by

Ebrahim Kadivar

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9820 | Submission Open

Keywords: cavitation control; cavitation exploitations; cavitation control around hydrofoils and propellers; cavitation passive control methods; cavitation active control methods; cavitation control in internal flows; control of partial and cloud cavitation; control of underwater radiated noise; control of cavitation-induced erosion; control of cavitation-induced vibration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Advanced Control Strategies for Autonomous Maritime Systems

edited by Hossein Nejatbakhsh Esfahani, Arash Bahari Kordabad and

David Moreno-Salinas

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7108 | Submission Open

Keywords: unmanned surface and underwater vehicles; guidance; navigation and control (GNC) algorithms; path planning and collision avoidance; robust and adaptive nonlinear control; intelligent and learning-based control; reinforcement learning methods and optimal control; advanced model predictive control schemes; cooperative and networked control; risk-aware and safety-critical control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Developments in Zero-Carbon Fuels for Smart, Safe, and Reliable Waterborne Applications

edited by

Gerasimos Theotokatos

,

Evangelos Boulougouris

and Panagiotis Karvounis

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4781 | Submission Open

Keywords: zero-carbon fuels; maritime decarbonization; alternative fuels; sustainable shipping; smart maritime systems; safe fuel technology; hydrogen fuel cells; hydrogen fuel; ammonia fuel; emission reduction; fuel safety standards; marine environmental sustainability; electrification; autonomous waterborne systems; marine fuel supply chains; fuel efficiency; fuel cell technology in marine applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Application of Remote Sensing Technology in Marine and Water Resources Observation

edited by

Virginia Zamparelli

and

Simona Verde

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 988 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean winds; wave; currents; and bathymetry; ecological applications: water quality; oil spill; and algal blooms; radar; remote sensing; ocean and coastal monitoring; coastal areas safety and protection; synthetic aperture radar; PolSAR; InSAR; and change detection techniques; optical data

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Environmental Science)

Advancements in Marine Hydrodynamics and Structural Optimization

edited by Zhi Zong

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 538 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrodynamics; structure optimization; marine vehicles; multi-hulled ships; water entry and exit; cross-medium; high speed; autonomous

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Selected Feature Papers in Marine Environmental Science

edited by

Ramūnas Povilanskas

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 153 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine environmental science; coastal and marine resource management; environmental aspects of oceanography; fisheries science; marine biotechnology; marine ecosystem; marine pollution and environmental toxicology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Environmental Science)

Design and Analysis of Mooring System for Floating Offshore Structures

edited by

Dongsheng Qiao

,

Zhen Guo

and Liqin Liu

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9305 | Submission Open

Keywords: mooring system; anchor foundation; floating structures; offshore platform; wind turbine; wave energy converter; photovoltaic power station; submerged floating tunnel; motion analysis and control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Numerical Modeling of Fluid-Structure Interactions in Ocean Engineering

edited by Ole Andreas Hermundstad

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8044 | Submission Open

Keywords: wave and current loads; seakeeping; maneuvering and added resistance; slamming; hydroelasticity; marine operations; air gap; moorings; vortex-induced vibrations (VIV); vortex-induced motions (VIM)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Ship Behaviour in Extreme Sea Conditions

edited by

Jialong Jiao

and

Shan Wang

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1677 | Submission Open

Keywords: ship hydrodynamics; water waves and floating bodies; fluid-structure interaction; extreme sea conditions; freak waves; irregular waves; ship resistance and propulsion; ship maneuverability; ship seakeeping; structural loads and responses; slamming and whipping; green water on deck; tank sloshing; hydroelasticity; sea trial

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Mesozooplankton Ecology in Marine Environments

edited by

Maria Protopapa

and Inma Herrera

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1198 | Submission Open

Keywords: mesozooplankton; biomarkers; pollution; climate change; diversity; trophic interactions; anthropogenic stressors; heatwaves

Ecological Risk Assessments in Marine Pollutants

edited by Hua Tian

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1153 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine pollution; environmental pollutants; ecological risk assessment; bioaccumulation; biomagnification; marine ecosystem; marine biodiversity; marine food web

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Pollution)

Growth, Nutrition, Health, and Immunity of Marine Aquaculture of Fish and Shrimp

edited by

Kangle Lu

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 935 | Submission Open

Keywords: fish; shrimp; aquaculture; nutrition; metabolism; health; immunity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Aquaculture)

Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications in Intelligent Ship Navigation

edited by

Chenguang Liu

,

Jialun Liu

, Xiumin Chu and

Xiao Lang

submission deadline 5 Oct 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 16060 | Submission Open

Keywords: ship intelligent perception; deep learning network for navigation; ship navigation behavior analysis; navigation situation awareness; human– machine cooperative navigation; autonomous collision avoidance; reinforcement learning for motion planning; ship sailing and berthing control; shore-based remote control; testing of intelligent navigation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Sustainable Maritime Transport and Port Intelligence

edited by

Chao Mi

and

Guangnian Xiao

submission deadline 5 Oct 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 8531 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable maritime transport; port management; digital technology; artificial intelligence; smart operations management; intelligent equipment; maritime logistics; automation in ports; environmental sustainability; maritime industry innovations

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

The Control and Navigation of Autonomous Surface Vehicles

edited by

Defeng Wu

,

Zhiming Yuan

and

Haitong Xu

submission deadline 5 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3635 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous surface vehicles (USVs); autonomous positioning and navigation; intelligent decision-making; adaptive control; collaborative control; sensing technology; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Ship Structural Design and Analysis

edited by

Md Jahir Rizvi

submission deadline 5 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 220 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural design and analysis; mooring system analysis; local strength analysis; hydroelastic analysis; structural health monitoring and conditions assessment; reliability and risk analysis; fluid– structure interactions; structure– soil interactions; transportation and installation analysis of ship structures; fire and explosion analysis; fatigue and fracture analysis; life cycle assessment and recycling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Submarine Unfavorable Geology and Geological Disasters

edited by

Youkou Dong

, Dengfeng Fu and Xiaowei Feng

submission deadline 5 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 141 | Submission Open

Keywords: geological hazard; submarine landslide; submarine earthquake; submarine engineering; controlling factors; soil– structure interaction; disaster identification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Geological Oceanography)

Wave Loads on Offshore Structure

edited by Piguang Wang and

Kai Wei

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11869 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Models and Simulations of Ship Manoeuvring

edited by

Lúcia Moreira

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7591 | Submission Open

Keywords: ship manoeuvring; guidance navigation and control systems; ship model tests; ship full-scale trials; maritime autonomous vessels; path-following; navigation systems; autopilot; berthing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

New Biomonitoring Methodologies for Key Coastal and Estuary Species and Habitats

edited by

Sofia Duarte

,

María del Pilar Cabezas

and Luis Machado

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6685 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal and estuarine habitats; ecosystem assessment health; global change; key species; DNA-based tools; remote sensing; machine learning algorithms; acoustic assessments; photographic assessments; biosurveillance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Ecology)

Wave Hydrodynamics in Coastal Areas

edited by

Germán Rodríguez

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 518 | Submission Open

Keywords: wind-generated surface gravity waves; ocean wave measurements; wave climate variability; probabilistic wave analysis and modeling; time-frequency analysis of waves; numerical wave modelling; extreme wave events; wave prediction; wave propagation simulation; wave-driven coastal processes; wave energy resource assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)

Design and Analysis of Ship Structure

edited by

Jang Hyun Lee

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 500 | Submission Open

Keywords: ship structural design; electric vessels and fuel cell-powered vessels; LNG; LCO2; LH2 carrier structures; cryogenic insulation and boil-off gas (BOG) control; fatigue; collision; and ultimate strength analysis; fluid-structure interaction (FSI); digital twin and structural health monitoring (SHM); AI-based structural design and analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Wave Excitation Loads and Structural Assessment in Maritime and Offshore Engineering

edited by

Arun Dev

,

Giuliano Vernengo

and

Ling Qian

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 344 | Submission Open

Keywords: wave– structure interaction; hydrodynamic loads; structural assessment; fatigue and fracture; maritime and offshore engineering; marine and offshore structures; computational modeling and experimental validation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Theory, Method and Engineering Application of Computational Mechanics in Offshore Structures II

edited by

,

,

,

and Zhixun Yang

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13999 | Submission Open

Keywords: offshore oil engineering; subsea production system; offshore platform; marine risers and pipelines; intelligent design and manufacture of marine equipment; structural safety and reliability; intelligent monitoring and operation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)

Development and Utilization of Offshore Renewable Energy

edited by

Mario López Gallego

,

Rodrigo Carballo Sánchez

,

Carlos Pérez-Collazo

,

Iván López Moreira

and

Victor Ramos

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 12123 | Submission Open

Keywords: renewable energy; ocean energy; marine technology; wave energy; tidal energy; offshore wind; floating photovoltaics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Energy)

Sustainable and Efficient Maritime Operations

edited by

Jiaguo Liu

and Jun Ye

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 12112 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable maritime industry; digitalization in maritime operations; green shipping technologies; low-carbon shipping; smart ports; AI in maritime logistics; autonomous shipping; maritime network optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Safety Evaluation and Protection in Deep-Sea Resource Exploitation

edited by

Wanhai Xu

and Yexuan Ma

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2542 | Submission Open

Keywords: prediction of extreme environmental loads; dynamics of marine structures in extreme conditions; marine structural safety design theory; fatigue damage of marine structures; risk and reliability of marine structures; health monitoring of marine structures; vibration control of marine structures; development of protective equipment technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Particle Capture, Bioenergetics, and Ecological Role of Filter-Feeding Marine Invertebrates

edited by

Hans Ulrik Riisgård

and Florian Lüskow

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2150 | Submission Open

Keywords: filter feeding in marine invertebrates (planktonic and benthic species); bioenergetics (food uptake; assimilation; respiration; and energy budgets); biological filter pumps (design; function; and energy cost); particle capture (mechanisms and retention efficiency); population grazing impact of filter feeders; predation impact of jellyfish

Research and Development of Green Ship Energy

edited by

Simona Di Micco

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 905 | Submission Open

Keywords: maritime sector decarbonization; zero-emission vessels; hybrid propulsion systems; fuel cell technologies; hydrogen and hydrogen carriers; zero-carbon fuels; on-board feasibility installation assessment; powertrains modelling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Dynamics and Ecological Function of Marine Microbial Communities

edited by

Hongyue Dang

, Chunxiang Ai,

Ruiyong Zhang

and Xin Liu

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 144 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine microbial ecology; microbial community dynamics; microbial community functioning; marine biogeochemical cycling; mariculture microbiology; marine biocorrosion; microbial bioremediation; microbial engineering; microbial geoengineering; effects of climate change on microbiology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Ecology)

Advances in Sedimentology and Coastal and Marine Geology, 3rd Edition

edited by

Gemma Aiello

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 128 | Submission Open

Keywords: morpho-bathymetry; facies analysis; volcano-tectonic processes; caldera uplift; bradyseism; gas emissions and earthquakes; stratigraphic architecture of continental margins; tectonic and eustatic controls on stratigraphic sequences; submarine canyons

(This special issue belongs to the Section Geological Oceanography)

Biodiversity and Population Ecology of Marine Invertebrates

edited by

Alexios Lolas

and

Dimitris Klaoudatos

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 15032 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity hotspots; population dynamics; ecological interactions; habitat diversity; biogeography; environmental impact; ecosystem engineers; biodiversity indices

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)

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