Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Advanced Technologies of Ship Power Plants and Infrastructure of Seaports

edited by

and

submission deadline 10 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12359

Keywords: decarbonization of shipping and maritime ports; energy efficiency indices; advanced technologies; alternative fuels; innovative ship propulsion; parametric optimization; SMART technologies for maritime ports

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Intelligent Measurement and Control System of Marine Robots

edited by Yimin Chen, Zhuo Zhang and

Zhouhua Peng

submission deadline 10 Jul 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7426

Keywords: kinematics and dynamics modeling; image recognition and signal processing; artificial neural networks; trajectory and motion planning; fault identification and detection; navigation and control system; communication systems; multi-sensor fusion and measurement; intelligent control and automation systems; swarm intelligence and evolutionary algorithms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

AI-Empowered Marine Energy

edited by Zhaolong Han,

Jianhua Zhang

and

Zhongqiang Liu

submission deadline 10 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7353

Keywords: AI; artificial intelligence; ocean renewable energy; offshore wind power; energy system optimization; integration of marine energy and resources; comprehensive utilization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Coastal Water Quality Observation and Numerical Modeling

edited by

Marta Rodrigues

submission deadline 10 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1700

Keywords: coastal pollution and land-driven contaminants; climate change impacts and adaptations; coastal eutrophication; microplastics; scenario analyses and simulations; operational modeling; machine learning/deep learning/artificial intelligence; in situ observations; remote sensing; risk assessment

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

Marine Biodiversity and Ecophysiology Under Changing Marine Habitats

edited by

Genuario Belmonte

and

Maria Giulia Lionetto

submission deadline 10 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1329

Keywords: ontogenetic diversity; marine habitats; community dynamics; ecophysiology; physiological diversity; phenotypic plasticity; climate change; habitat stressors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)

Safe Maneuvering, Efficient Navigation and Intelligent Management for Ships

edited by Chunhui Zhou, Yixiong He and

Liang Huang

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 13 articles | Viewed by 15711 | Submission Open

Keywords: ship safety; ship navigation; intelligent shipping; ship maneuvering

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Impact of Ocean Wave Loads on Marine Structures

edited by

Shan Wang

and

Carlos Guedes Soares

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11084 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean wave loads; marine structures; wave– structure interaction; extreme wave loads; wave-induced vibrations; coastal infrastructure

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Advances in Coastal Hydrodynamic and Morphodynamic Processes under a Changing Climate

edited by

Chatzipavlis Antonis

and

Simone Simeone

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6660 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal morphodynamics; beach morphology; coastal hydrodynamics; climate change; extreme sea levels; mean sea level rise; coastal processes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)

Exploitation and Optimization of Ocean Energy Conversion Infrastructure

edited by

Isabel Cristina Gil-Garcia

and

Ana Fernández-Guillamón

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6474 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean energy; conversion infrastructure; renewable energy; offshore wind

(This special issue belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)

Advances in Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration and Development

edited by

Mianmo Meng

,

Wenming Ji

and Guodong Cui

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3652 | Submission Open

Keywords: pore size distribution (PSD); porosity measured by multiple methods; permeability determined by steady-state and pulse-decay methods; pore connectivity; oil occurrence; oil mobility; EOR by imbibition; EOR by CO2; EOR by chemistry; gas hydrate

(This special issue belongs to the Section Geological Oceanography)

Track Planning with Automatic Obstacle Recognition and Avoidance for Maritime Vessels

edited by

Dimitrios V. Lyridis

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2221 | Submission Open

Keywords: optimum routing; path planning; marine vehicles; AI

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Design Optimisation in Marine Engineering

edited by

Giada Kyaw Oo D'Amore

and

Francesco Mauro

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 556 | Submission Open

Keywords: numerical optimisation; neural network; design optimisation; optimisation algorithm; artificial intelligence; marine engineering; marine structure; green shipping; hull efficiency

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems: Anthropogenic Degradation and the Impacts of Restoration Efforts

edited by

Kevin B. Johnson

and

Austin Fox

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7571 | Submission Open

Keywords: pollution sources; climate impacts; loss of biodiversity; restoration and mitigation techniques; ecosystem outcomes for estuaries and coastal zones

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

Underwater Observation Technology in Marine Environment

edited by

Chiranjibi Shah

and

Niamat Ullah Ibne Hossain

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5104 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean observation technologies; detecting objects in underwater settings; underwater vision; underwater image processing; deep learning; underwater detection; underwater classification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Numerical Simulation of Fluid-Structure Interactions by CFD (2nd Edition)

edited by

Giovanni Cannata

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4473 | Submission Open

Keywords: fluid– structure interaction; offshore structures; wave structure; floating structures; computational fluid dynamics; CFD; numerical simulation; ocean wave

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Structural Modelling, Safety Assessment, and Advanced Material Application of Marine Structures

edited by Qingshan Wang and Mengzhen Li

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1394 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural modelling ; vibration and noise ; impact analysis ; ultimate strength ; fatigue analysis ; ship and offshore structures ; composite structure

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Analysis of Ultimate Strength and Fatigue Damage of Offshore Structure

edited by

Menglan Duan

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 166 | Submission Open

Keywords: offshore structures; design criteria; computational method; ultimate strength; buckling; fatigue and fracture; dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Anti-explosion, Anti-impact and Vibration Isolation Advanced Protection Design in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering

edited by Jingxi Liu,

Ying Li

and Wei Chen

submission deadline 25 Jul 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 20334 | Submission Open

Keywords: ship and offshore structure; intelligent/functional/bionic protection design; metamaterial protection design; multiple layer protection design; advanced composite structure design; energy absorb mechanism; structural damage/failure mechanism; vibration isolation mechanism; strength/damage assessment; structural optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Design of Marine Structures against Ice Actions

edited by

Mojtaba Mokhtari

,

Pentti Kujala

and

Bernt J. Leira

submission deadline 25 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11420 | Submission Open

Keywords: ice– structure interaction; ice mechanics; ice load; structural reliability; risk-based design; polar navigation; limit state of arctic marine structures; stochastic models; climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Chemical Biology of Marine Fishes

edited by Hangkyo Lim

submission deadline 25 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3491 | Submission Open

Keywords: communication; environment; ecology; behaviour; physiology; reproduction; aquaculture

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)

Intelligent Solutions for Marine Operations

edited by

Christian Velasco-Gallego

and

Leszek Chybowski

submission deadline 25 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1262 | Submission Open

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; predictive maintenance; Internet of Ships; smart sensors; digital twins; cyber– physical systems; computational fluid dynamics; green maritime technologies; maritime autonomous surface ships; fuel efficiency optimisation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Technical Applications and Latest Discoveries in Seafloor Mapping

edited by

Lukasz Janowski

and Jarosław Nowak

submission deadline 25 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1256 | Submission Open

Keywords: seafloor mapping; remote sensing; underwater acoustics; airborne laser bathymetry; satellite-derived bathymetry; machine learning; marine geology; benthic habitat mapping

(This special issue belongs to the Section Geological Oceanography)

Numerical Efforts for Cleaner Marine Environments: From Ship Hydrodynamics to Ocean Renewable Energy

edited by

Soonseok Song

submission deadline 25 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 119 | Submission Open

Keywords: numerical methods; marine hydrodynamics; ship performance; ocean renewable energy; computational fluid dynamics; marine environment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Innovations in Underwater Robotic Software Systems

edited by

Francisco Rego

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1920 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine multi-agent systems; subsea communication technologies; underwater navigation systems; underwater control algorithms; marine path planning algorithms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Assessment of Marine Microbial Risks from Plastic Pollution

edited by

Gabriella Caruso

,

Carmen Rizzo

and

Monia Renzi

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1229 | Submission Open

Keywords: plastics; vectors; pathogens; bacteria; fungi; toxic phytoplankton; antibiotic-resistant bacteria/genes; virulence factor genes; the microbiome; risk assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Ecology)

Benthic Ecology in Coastal and Brackish Systems—2nd Edition

edited by

Panagiotis D. Dimitriou

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 834 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecological status; ecosystem status; benthic ecology; anthropogenic effects; biological trait analysis; marine biodiversity; marine functional diversity; benthic indicators

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)

Advances in Marine Geotechnical Engineering—2nd Edition

edited by

Hem Bahadur Motra

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 486 | Submission Open

Keywords: offshore infrastructure; geological and geotechnical aspects of marine environments; characterization of variable marine materials; slopes’ stability in marine environments; marine geohazards; hydrodynamic problems in marine environments; protection against high water

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Advanced Analysis and Optimization of Tubular Joints in Marine Structures for Offshore Renewable Energy Applications

edited by

Francisco Taveira Pinto

and

Paulo Jorge Rosa-Santos

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 125 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine structures; tubular joints; hydrostatic and hydrodynamic analysis; renewable energy; probabilistic and reliability analysis; strengthening methods (e.g.; ring; FRP; concrete); offshore wind energy structures; floating and fixed wind turbine structures; design practices for marine structures; dynamics analysis; environmental loads (e.g.; wind; wave; marine growth; current); numerical and experimental methods for marine structures; transportation and installation of offshore structures; cost analysis of marine structures; mooring design and analysis of marine structures; optimization of marine structures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Marine Renewable Energy and the Transition to a Low Carbon Future 2nd Edition

edited by

Eugen Rusu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9165 | Submission Open

Keywords: renewable energy; marine environment; climate change; sustainability; offshore wind floating; solar panels wave and tide energy; emerging technologies; environmental impact

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Energy)

Advanced Research in Guidance, Navigation, and Control for Autonomous Surface Vehicle

edited by Cheng Liu and Yaqing Shu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3272 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous surface vehicle; mathematical modeling; navigation; path planning; berthing control; path following; cooperative control; collision avoidance; trajectory tracking

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Shoreline Sustainability: Addressing Plastic Threats and Implementing Mitigation Strategies

edited by

Michele Arienzo

and

Luciano Ferrara

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 371 | Submission Open

Keywords: sources and flows of plastics in coastal environments; characterization and quantification of plastics; advanced analytical techniques for plastic identification; effects of plastics on marine biota and modelling; current challenges and future solutions for prevention; mitigation strategies; and remediation; biodegradable materials for plastic replacement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical Oceanography)

Advances in Offshore Wind and Wave Energies—2nd Edition

edited by

Pedro Beirão

and

Mário J. G. C. Mendes

submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16351 | Submission Open

Keywords: renewable energy; wind energy; wave energy; offshore wind devices; offshore wave energy converters; modeling; control; wind and wave energy management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Offshore Geotechnics: Offshore Foundations and Soil–Structure Interactions

edited by Joshua Omer

submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2098 | Submission Open

Keywords: offshore platforms; wind turbine foundations; offshore site investigations; soils and rocks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Marine Pollution, Bioremediation and Ecosystem Restoration

edited by

Lucica Barbes

and Elena Stoica

submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1781 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal pollution and anthropogenic impact on oceans; marine biodiversity and water quality management; habitat restoration and sustainable marine practices; marine ecosystem health and conservation; environmental impact and coastal flood risk assessment

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

Applications of Sensors and Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Ships

edited by Jiansen Zhao,

Xinjian Wang

and

Rong Zhen

submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1197 | Submission Open

Keywords: ship detection and tracking; maritime data mining; ship trajectory fusion; navigation awareness enhancement; intelligent ship collision avoidance; intelligent aids in ship navigation; maritime traffic organization; navigational risk assessment and control; maritime traffic supervision; MASS; ship communication; perception

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

New Developments of Ocean Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy

edited by

Mariana Bernardino

and

Liliana Rusu

submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 372 | Submission Open

Keywords: offshore renewable energy; wave and tidal energy; environmental impact assessment; climate resilience; AI in ocean energy; renewable energy; offshore wind farms; marine ecosystems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Energy)

Ship Performance in Actual Seas

edited by

Simone Mancini

and

Abbas Dashtimansh

submission deadline 5 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5666 | Submission Open

Keywords: ship performance and propulsion; ship hydrodynamics in wind and waves; ship scale effects; machine learning (ML); supervised and data-driven algorithms; artificial neural networks (ANN); computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations; semi-empirical model; CII and EEXI

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Motion Control and Path Planning of Marine Vehicles—3rd Edition

edited by

Bing Li

and

Bowen Xing

submission deadline 5 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5603 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine vehicle; unmanned ocean vehicle; deep-sea mining system; new energy ships; arctic vessel; unmanned marine vehicle swarm; motion control; path planning; autonomous; learning and AI; cooperation and coordination

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Advanced Research in Marine Environmental and Fisheries Acoustics

edited by Shima Abadi,

Kyounghoon Lee

and Dezhang Chu

submission deadline 5 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2745 | Submission Open

Keywords: underwater acoustics; marine bioacoustics; acoustic monitoring systems; underwater soundscapes

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

Intelligent Systems for Marine Transportation

edited by

Hsuan-Shih Lee

submission deadline 5 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2723 | Submission Open

Keywords: maritime autonomous surface ships (MASSs); sustainable marine transportation; marine transportation technology; digital twin bridge/engine (DTB/E) monitoring; intelligent port logistics; big data platform in marine transportation; intelligent logistics management; performance evaluation on marine transportation; environmental performance in marine transportation; AI in marine transportation; data analytics in marine transportation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Advances in Maritime Shipping

edited by

Chuanxu Wang

submission deadline 5 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 1151 | Submission Open

Keywords: green shipping; intelligent shipping; digital technology; low carbon; operations management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Advances in Ships and Marine Structures—Edition II

edited by

Erkan Oterkus

submission deadline 5 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 217 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine structures; fracture mechanics; corrosion; structural health monitoring; marine composites; ice– structure interactions; machine learning; digital twins

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Theoretical Research and Design of Subsea Pipelines

edited by Ahmed M. Reda

submission deadline 5 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open

Keywords: subsea pipeline design; computational modeling and simulation; pipeline integrity management; hydrodynamic interactions; corrosion-resistant alloys; structural health monitoring; deepwater energy transportation; failure analysis and defect assessment; flow assurance and transport phenomena; sustainable offshore pipeline infrastructure; pipe– soil interaction; seabed stability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Application of CFD Simulations to Marine Hydrodynamic Problems (2nd Edition)

edited by

Peng Du

and

Abdellatif Ouahsine

submission deadline 10 Aug 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9257 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine hydrodynamics; fluid– structure interaction; computational fluid mechanics; environmental fluid mechanics; coastal engineering; ocean engineering; ship waves; waterway; waves hydrodynamics; naval hydrodynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Advances in Marine Mechanical and Structural Engineering—2nd Edition

edited by

Chenfeng Li

,

Kun Liu

and

Bin Liu

submission deadline 10 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7391 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine structure; strength assessment; structural design; advanced material and structure; structural optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Adaptation to Global Change in Fisheries Resources and Associated Marine Ecosystems

edited by

Jésus M. Falcón

,

Juan Pérez-Rubín

and

Pablo Martin-Sosa

submission deadline 10 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5128 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean and Global Climate)

Health Monitoring and Reliability Assessment of Marine and Offshore Structure

edited by Jian Zhang and

Yi Zhang

submission deadline 10 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2159 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean engineering; civil engineering; structural health monitoring; reliability assessment; uncertainty quantification; surrogate modeling; artificial intelligence algorithm; data-driven; reduced-order model

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Advancements in Hybrid Power Systems for Marine Applications

edited by

Peilin Xie

,

Sen Tan

and

Rosemary Norman

submission deadline 10 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 642 | Submission Open

Keywords: renewable energy; maritime power systems; electrical propulsion systems; fuel cells; power management systems; energy management systems; energy storage systems; green hydrogen; hydrogen-fueled ships

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Diversity and Complexity of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter’s Molecular Composition

edited by Teresa S. Catalá

submission deadline 10 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 78 | Submission Open

Keywords: Marine Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM); Molecular Complexity; Structural Diversity; ; Microbial Ecology; Ultra-High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry (HRMS); Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy; Novel Computational Approaches

(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical Oceanography)

Research Progress on Ocean Observations Technology and Information Systems

edited by

Christos Tsabaris

and

Gabriele Pieri

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10843 | Submission Open

Keywords: Ocean observation systems; fixed platform; mobile platforms; sensors’ integration; ocean networks; Marine Information Systems; environmental monitoring; maritime data processing and modelling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

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