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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Volume 4, Issue 2

June 2016 - 13 articles

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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,885 Views
15 Pages

Metal Bioaccumulation by Estuarine Food Webs in New England, USA

  • Celia Y. Chen,
  • Darren M. Ward,
  • Jason J. Williams and
  • Nicholas S. Fisher

Evaluating the degree of metal exposure and bioaccumulation in estuarine organisms is important for understanding the fate of metals in estuarine food webs. We investigated the bioaccumulation of Hg, methylmercury (MeHg), Cd, Se, Pb, and As in common...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,911 Views
21 Pages

Sandbar Migration and Shoreline Change on the Chirihama Coast, Japan

  • Masatoshi Yuhi,
  • Masayuki Matsuyama and
  • Kazuhiro Hayakawa

Sandy beaches play a key role in regional tourism. It is important to understand the principal morphological processes behind preserving attractive beaches. In this study, morphological variation on the Chirihama Coast, Japan, an important local tour...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,913 Views
12 Pages

Gene Transcript Profiling in Sea Otters Post-Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: A Tool for Marine Ecosystem Health Assessment

  • Lizabeth Bowen,
  • A. Keith Miles,
  • Brenda Ballachey,
  • Shannon Waters and
  • James Bodkin

Using a panel of genes stimulated by oil exposure in a laboratory study, we evaluated gene transcription in blood leukocytes sampled from sea otters captured from 2006–2012 in western Prince William Sound (WPWS), Alaska, 17–23 years after the 1989 Ex...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,036 Views
21 Pages

Quantitative Estimates of Bio-Remodeling on Coastal Rock Surfaces

  • Marta Pappalardo,
  • Markus Buehler,
  • Alessandro Chelli,
  • Luca Cironi,
  • Federica Pannacciulli and
  • Zhao Qin

Remodeling of rocky coasts and erosion rates have been widely studied in past years, but not all the involved processes acting over rocks surface have been quantitatively evaluated yet. The first goal of this paper is to revise the different methodol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,317 Views
17 Pages

A Conceptual Model for Spatial Grain Size Variability on the Surface of and within Beaches

  • Edith Gallagher,
  • Heidi Wadman,
  • Jesse McNinch,
  • Ad Reniers and
  • Melike Koktas

Grain size on the surface of natural beaches has been observed to vary spatially and temporally with morphology and wave energy. The stratigraphy of the beach at Duck, North Carolina, USA was examined using 36 vibracores (~1–1.5 m long) collected alo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
13,107 Views
27 Pages

Cutting the Umbilical: New Technological Perspectives in Benthic Deep-Sea Research

  • Angelika Brandt,
  • Julian Gutt,
  • Marc Hildebrandt,
  • Jan Pawlowski,
  • Jakob Schwendner,
  • Thomas Soltwedel and
  • Laurenz Thomsen

Many countries are very active in marine research and operate their own research fleets. In this decade, a number of research vessels have been renewed and equipped with the most modern navigation systems and tools. However, much of the research gear...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,295 Views
14 Pages

Recent Advances in the Study of Marine Microbial Biofilm: From the Involvement of Quorum Sensing in Its Production up to Biotechnological Application of the Polysaccharide Fractions

  • Paola Di Donato,
  • Annarita Poli,
  • Valentina Taurisano,
  • Gennaro Roberto Abbamondi,
  • Barbara Nicolaus and
  • Giuseppina Tommonaro

The present review will explore the most relevant findings on marine microbial biofilm, with particular attention towards its polysaccharide fraction, namely exopolysaccharide (EPS). EPSs of microbial origin are ubiquitous in nature, possess unique p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,387 Views
14 Pages

A Floating Ocean Energy Conversion Device and Numerical Study on Buoy Shape and Performance

  • Ruiyin Song,
  • Meiqin Zhang,
  • Xiaohua Qian,
  • Xiancheng Wang,
  • Yong Ming Dai and
  • Junhua Chen

Wave and current energy can be harnessed in the East China Sea and South China Sea; however, both areas are subject to high frequencies of typhoon events. To improve the safety of the ocean energy conversion device, a Floating Ocean Energy Conversion...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,798 Views
10 Pages

Morphological changes during a flood event in July 2010 were observed with X-band marine radar at the mouth of Tenryu River, Shizuoka, Japan. Radar images were collected hourly for more than 72 h from the beginning of the flood and processed into tim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,319 Views
19 Pages

April 20, 2010 marked the start of the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the largest marine oil spill in US history, which contaminated coastal wetland ecosystems across the northern Gulf of Mexico. We used hyperspectral data from 2010 a...

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