2026 March-1 - 114 articles
Limestone corrosion and coastal karst cave (flank margin cave) enlargement are closely related by the mixing zone between meteoric and seawater, yet quantitative data on corrosion rates in these environments remain scarce. Recent speleodiving explora...
Several shale oil intervals, including those in offshore China, were deposited in paralic lacustrine basins that experienced marine incursions. Marine incursions could be either favorable or unfavorable for the accumulation of organic matter (OM) and...
Unconfined coastal karst aquifers are highly susceptible to contamination from anthropogenic activities, particularly in regions lacking adequate wastewater treatment. Their open hydrological structure facilitates the input and dispersion of contamin...
Human-driven soil erosion is a signal of the widely debated “Anthropocene”. There is widespread controversy regarding the time consistency and time transgression of human-driven soil erosion in the Late Holocene. In this study, three well...
Dynamic positioning (DP) systems are essential to maritime operations, as they ensure precise station keeping. Yet human error remains a major contributor to DP incidents, often interacting with technical failures and environmental conditions. This s...
Vessel trajectory prediction is pivotal for maritime traffic safety and autonomous collision avoidance. However, existing studies predominantly rely on massive public AIS (Automatic Identification System) datasets, often overlooking the challenges of...
In the rapidly advancing field of geological oceanography, the Pacific Ocean and its marginal basins—encompassing key regions like the Sea of Japan, Bohai Bay Basin, South China Sea, and western Pacific seamounts—serve as a critical arena...
International shipping is indispensable to global commerce, yet it remains a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Although waste heat recovery has been applied in other industries, its performance and economic viability in shipping ar...
Reactive power compensation (RPC) in ships is critical for the stability, efficiency, and safety of the electric power system. It ensures voltage stability, reduces generator and alternator load, and adapts to dynamic and variable loads. This study e...
This study proposes a health-aware energy management strategy based on the twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient (TD3) algorithm for hybrid fuel cell/battery-powered ships. Unlike traditional approaches that treat multiple fuel cell stacks...
Accurate knowledge of seawater optical properties is essential for underwater imaging, sensing, and optical communication, particularly in coastal and shallow-water environments where geometric light propagation effects can influence measurement accu...
In the dynamic landscape of geological oceanography, the Pacific Ocean and its peripheral basins have served as pivotal arenas for researchers striving to decipher the intricate interplay between geological dynamics and marine ecosystems [...]
The suction pile–gravity hybrid foundation (SPGH) has emerged as a novel foundation for floating wind turbines (FWTs) due to its superior bearing mechanism. In harsh marine environments, offshore wind turbine structures endure multidirectional...
Under extreme heterogeneous loading conditions in the deep sea, obtaining well-preserved and stratigraphically coherent cores is a critical challenge that requires urgent resolution. Current methods cannot directly determine the preservation of core...
Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) equipped with multibeam forward-looking sonar are widely used for underwater object search in environments where visibility is limited. Ensuring complete three-dimensional (3D) scan coverage within a bounded mission...
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) models in maritime and coastal engineering has gained increasing relevance, demonstrating performance comparable to traditional approaches in wave climate analysis and propagation. However, their use in...
The advancement of large-scale marine infrastructure demands increasingly accurate prediction of settlement in deep-water foundations. The caisson is an important type of deep-water foundation whose additional settlement induced by superstructure con...
The ocean archives massive, stable remote sensing datasets, and leveraging these data to achieve intelligent real-time recognition of marine organisms has become a core task in the field of marine remote sensing. However, in complex seabed environmen...
To meet the global climate change challenge and the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) greenhouse gas emission reduction strategy, and promote the shipping industry’s transition to clean energy, this study focuses on the 6S35 2-s...
Tight-formation control is a key technology for unmanned surface vehicle (USV) swarms in harbor navigation, cooperative berthing, and operations in hazardous environments, yet achieving reliable obstacle avoidance while maintaining formation stabilit...
A novel group-drag-anchor system (GDAS), comprising a Delta anchor and a four-tooth anchor, was developed to enhance mooring capacity for floating offshore wind turbines in soft clay seabeds. This study focuses on the influence of the installation me...
With the expansion of water transportation networks and increasing traffic intensity, maritime accidents have become frequent, posing significant threats to safety and property. This study presents a knowledge graph-driven framework for maritime acci...
The Arctic region is rapidly emerging as a strategic frontier due to its vast untapped oil and gas reserves—estimated to contain about 30% of the world’s undiscovered natural gas and 13% of its undiscovered oil resources—as well as...
The residual current is the ocean current after the tidal component has been removed. Understanding the spatiotemporal distribution characteristics of sea surface residual currents is key to revealing the local current field evolution and typical phy...
This work focuses on evaluating the fatigue characteristics of a 66 kV wet-type submarine cable. The analysis incorporates realistic offshore environmental conditions and considers installation through a flexible pull-in system. The target system was...
The disappearance of the trawler Ravenel in January 1962, resulting in the loss of fifteen men from the Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon archipelago, has long remained unresolved. This study integrates archival documentation, eyewitness testimony, atmospher...
The rapid expansion of offshore wind energy in Korea has raised concerns among coastal fishing communities about potential changes in fish assemblages. We conducted a summer 2022 survey at the Tamra Offshore Wind Farm (Jeju, Korea), comparing turbine...
To explore the influence of inter-formation variables on swimming performance during fish schooling, this paper adopts the sharp interface immersed boundary method based on virtual cells to conduct numerical research on the swimming of three-fish and...
Modern oceanographic studies demonstrate that marginal seas and semi-restricted marine environments, including epicontinental seas and carbonate platforms, are highly sensitive to changes in circulation, freshwater input, stratification, and redox co...
Late Permian paleoenvironmental instability and recurrent biotic crises coincided with enhanced marine organic-carbon burial, yet ocean-circulation dynamics have remained underappreciated as a key driver. In particular, for the Wuchiaping Formation a...
Accurate typhoon inflow characterization is essential for offshore wind turbine safety in typhoon-prone regions. This study presents a physics-informed WRF–TurbSim framework that reconstructs rotor-relevant, stage-aware inflow fields for Typhoo...
The organic-rich shales of the Upper Ordovician–Lower Silurian Renheqiao Formation in Yunnan, China, represent a valuable target for understanding marine hydrocarbon systems and offshore oil and gas exploration. To decipher its organic matter (...
With the advancement of autonomous driving technologies, automated container terminals (ACTs) are transitioning toward mixed-traffic operations involving unmanned internal container trucks (ITs) and manned external container trucks (ETs). However, th...
This paper applies the reliability-based robust optimization (RBRO) technique to investigate the probabilistic structural design characteristics of the Fairlead Chain Stopper (FCS), a newly developed detachable mooring apparatus for installation on a...
Accurate wave prediction in coastal waters is essential for marine safety and engineering, yet it is significantly influenced by uncertainties in wind forcing and dissipation parameterization. This study evaluates the sensitivity of the SWAN model ar...
Accurate identification of hydrodynamic parameters is essential for high-fidelity modeling and control of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). Compared with towing tank experiments and computational fluid dynamics simulations, system identification b...
Maritime vessel detection in nearshore waters is a fundamental capability for artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled maritime transportation systems, including coastal monitoring, traffic management, and digital maritime services. Although attention me...
Underwater wireless power transfer (UWPT) technology can improve the endurance of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). The stability and efficiency of UWPT depend on the success rate of UUV docking. A novel detection model, TFDF-YOLO, is proposed for...
Climate change poses significant risks to Mediterranean aquaculture, with sea surface temperature (SST) identified as a critical stressor affecting cultivated species. This study aims to assess climate-related risks for coastal aquaculture in the Val...
The decarbonization of large cruise ships is challenged by their extreme and tightly coupled electrical, thermal, and cooling demands. This study investigates a liquid hydrogen (LH2)-based tri-generation system for cruise ships that simultaneously su...
Using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) coupled with the volume of fluid (VOF) method, we developed an analytical framework to quantify free-surface suction around ship hulls. The DTMB 5415 benchmark hull was employed to investigate the mechanisms b...
Over the past few decades, with the continuous expansion of offshore oil and gas resource development into deepwater and ultra-deepwater environments, slender structures such as flexible risers, subsea pipelines, mooring cables, and underwater cables...
Marine geohazards encompass a wide variety of processes, including submarine landslides, canyon morphodynamics, turbidity currents, gas hydrates, seafloor fluid emissions, and the impacts of internal solitary waves on sediments [...]
Models and simulations of ship manoeuvring are fundamental tools for predicting and controlling vessel motion under real operational conditions [...]
A two-layer control framework for unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) navigation is proposed, combining a lower-layer active disturbance rejection controller (ADRC) with an upper-layer safe reinforcement learning (RL) policy for obstacle-avoidance navi...
Trade imbalances and equipment shortages are making it increasingly important to coordinate container slot allocation with empty container repositioning on liner services. This paper develops an integrated bi-objective mixed-integer model for voyage-...
The increasing global demand for energy has accelerated the depletion of identified conventional resources, highlighting the need for sustainable alternatives. Geothermal energy, a renewable resource derived from the Earth’s internal heat, offe...
CO2-assisted steam huff and puff is an effective method to improve oil recovery and store CO2 in heavy oil reservoirs. However, few studies focused on complex geological formations, such as bottom water. The bottom water condition not only complicate...
Robust visual perception of Aids to Navigation (AtoN) is essential for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) operating in restricted navigational waters, where estuarine clutter, fog, glare, and dense traffic can severely degrade detection reliabi...
The increasing regulatory pressure on the maritime sector to decarbonize, driven in part by market-based mechanisms at the European level, is accelerating the development of onboard carbon management and energy-efficiency solutions. In this context,...
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