Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Dynamics and Control of Marine Mechatronics

edited by

submission deadline 1 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1943 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine mechatronics; dynamics modeling; advanced control; AI-driven solutions; energy-efficient actuation; marine energy harvesting; marine robot; intelligent system

(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 1599 | 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 1063 | 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 1024 | 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 829 | 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 14770 | 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 7741 | 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 3345 | 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 176 | 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 101 | 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 11355 | 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 7218 | 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 6321 | 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 451 | 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)

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 307 | 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)

Design and Analysis of Ship Structure

edited by

Jang Hyun Lee

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 128 | 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)

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 13423 | 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 10877 | 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 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10326 | 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)

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 1971 | 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

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 1935 | 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)

Research and Development of Green Ship Energy

edited by

Simona Di Micco

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 771 | 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 133 | 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 100 | 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 14128 | 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)

Theories and Techniques in Intelligent Digital Twins in Marine Science and Engineering

edited by

Junyu Dong

,

Hui Yu

, Shu Zhang and Hongjie Ma

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9876 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital twin; 3D reconstruction; intelligent computing; ocean data; underwater intelligence; multi-modal data; deep learning; visual computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Advances in Wireless Communication Technology in Oceanic Turbulence

edited by

Dajun Liu

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3506 | Submission Open

Keywords: underwater optical wireless communications; oceanic turbulence; partially coherent beam; vortex beam; structured light; OAM; BER; outage probability; beam propagation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

New Trends in Engineering and Operational Research on Container Supply Chain Management for Resilience, Digitalization, Intelligence and Sustainability

edited by Hongtao Hu,

Tingsong Wang

, Yiwei Wu and Shuai Jia

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2776 | Submission Open

Keywords: container logistics; maritime shipping; sustainable supply chain; emerging technologies; disruptions and emergencies; operations and management; mathematical programming; combinatorial optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Machine Learning in Coastal Engineering

edited by

Paulo Jorge Rosa-Santos

,

Victor Ramos

and

Daniel Clemente

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 596 | Submission Open

Keywords: wave field prediction; sea level variations; morphological changes; supervised and unsupervised learning; machine learning; coastal engineering; data-driven models; artificial neural networks (ANNs); support vector machines (SVMs); Bayesian networks (BNs); decision trees (DTs); wave prediction; water level fluctuation; morphology change; sediment transport; coastal erosion; model validation; multidisciplinary studies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)

Marine Propulsion Systems: Hydrodynamics, Numerical Simulation, and Intelligent Control

edited by Gregory Grigoropoulos

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 204 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine propulsion; hydrodynamics; optimization; operational efficiency; novel propulsion systems; electrical propulsion; numerical simulation; intelligent control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Offshore Pipes and Energy Equipment

edited by

Jie Zhang

,

Dejan Brkić

and

Bruno Brunone

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 134 | Submission Open

Keywords: pipe integrity; offshore platform; storage and transportation equipment; oil and gas extraction equipment; offshore power generation; hydrogen production from seawater; offshore photovoltaics; clean energy equipment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Development of Theories and Systems in Underwater Communications and Networks

edited by Jiang Zhu, Lei Wan and

Yishan Su

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5575 | Submission Open

Keywords: underwater communications; underwater networks; mud pulse telemetry; development of underwater information systems; experimental results

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Marine Fuel Cell Technology: Latest Advances and Prospects

edited by

Daan Cui

and

Yulong Ji

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5137 | Submission Open

Keywords: design and optimization of maritime fuel cell system; impact of the marine environment on marine fuel cells; fuel cell materials and catalysts; fuel cell system integration and testing; life cycle assessment; energy management; PEMFC; SOFC

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Abundance and Diversity of the Sea Fish Community

edited by

Alen Soldo

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3963 | Submission Open

Keywords: feeding; migrations; spawning; hydroacoustic; tagging; underwater observations; captive and wild fish

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)

Underwater Robots

edited by Qinghua Jiang and Dong Zhang

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2834 | Submission Open

Keywords: design and optimization methods; new-concept and multimodal underwater robots; trans-media vehicles; robots with biomimetic propulsion; hydrodynamics; future perspectives related to underwater robots

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Ship Performance and Emission Prediction

edited by

Kayvan Pazouki

and

Rosemary Norman

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 528 | Submission Open

Keywords: ship performance and efficiency; alternative fuels and propulsion arrangements; ship’ s emission assessment and indicators; sustainable shipping; energy saving technologies; emission prediction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs): Technology, Applications and Regulatory Landscapes

edited by Antonio Carlos Fernandes and Joel Sena Sales Junior

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 298 | Submission Open

Keywords: unmanned surface vessel; autonomous surface vessel; autonomous vehicle; unmanned vehicle; maritime autonomy; maritime vehicles; autonomous navigation; intelligent control; unmanned system

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Bioprospecting for Marine Organisms: From Genes to Compounds

edited by

Chiara Lauritano

and

Eleonora Montuori

submission deadline 25 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 89 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine organisms; bioprospecting; secondary metabolites; marine compounds; gene pathways; transcriptomes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)

Ocean Internal Waves and Circulation Dynamics in Climate Change

edited by

Shuqun Cai

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4496 | Submission Open

Keywords: internal wave; circulation/eddy; mixing; observation or modeling; case studies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)

Marine Modelling and Environmental Statistics in Honor of Professor Keith Thompson

edited by

Jinyu Sheng

, Harold Ritchie,

Youyu Lu

, Natacha B. Bernier and Michael Dowd

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3883 | Submission Open

Keywords: numerical modelling; data assimilation; environmental statistics; oceanography; prediction; predictability; extreme marine conditions; Madden– Julian Oscillation; atmospheric dynamics; ocean dynamics; coastal waters; tide– surge interaction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)

Marine Equipment Intelligent Fault Diagnosis

edited by Luis F. Mendonça,

Francesc Xavier Martínez De Osés

and

Susana Vieira

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 1431 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; fault diagnosis; deep learning; digital twins; equipment monitoring; radio navigation; AIS; meteodata

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Advances in Marine Geotechnical Engineering and Disaster Prevention Engineering

edited by

Ahmed Benamar

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 137 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine geotechnical engineering; disaster prevention engineering; soil– structure interaction; multi-hazard risk assessment; fluid– structure interaction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Ocean Observations, Second Edition

edited by Chung-Ru Ho

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 106 | Submission Open

Keywords: ocean observation; maritime safety; marine engineering; maritime planning; maritime construction; ocean observation instruments and technology; battery capacity; data storage; ocean energy; ocean observation systems; ocean observation results; ocean observation applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Parasitology of Marine Animals

edited by

Sónia Rocha

and

Alexandre Lobo-da-Cunha

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 153 | Submission Open

Keywords: parasite diversity; taxonomy; evolution; life cycles; pathology; ecology; host– parasite interactions; aquaculture; diagnostics; conservation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)

Recent Advances in Marine Bioacoustics

edited by Valentina Zaffaroni-Caorsi,

Giovanni Zambon

and

Roberto Benocci

submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11573 | Submission Open

Keywords: bioacoustics; soundscape; marine; underwater; anthropogenic; conservation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)

Sediment Geochemical Proxys and Processes in Paleomarine Ecosystems

edited by

Slobodan Miko

submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2850 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine sediments; inorganic proxies; organic proxies; biomarkers; paleoproductivity; provenance; isotopes; redox; sea surface temperature (SST)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Geological Oceanography)

Underwater Acoustic Field Modulation Technology

edited by Bin Wang

submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1691 | Submission Open

Keywords: sound cloaks; acoustic gradient materials; materials with special acoustic parameters; the topology of special acoustic parameters; multi-mode materials; acoustic coding

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Advances in the Decision-Making and Control of Autonomous Marine Vehicles

edited by

Amirmehdi Yazdani

, Oleg Yakimenko and Somaiyeh MahmoudZadeh

submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 199 | Submission Open

Keywords: autonomous marine vehicles; autonomous underwater vehicles; autonomous surface vehicles; intelligent control; marine robotics; path planning; decision-making; AI for marine systems; multi-agent coordination; resilient autonomy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Coral Reefs in a Changing World: Disturbance, Recovery, and Resilience

edited by

Enrico Montalbetti

,

Yohan Didier Louis

and

Davide Seveso

submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 165 | Submission Open

Keywords: coral reefs; disturbance ecology; ecosystem resilience; climate change; reef recovery; marine biodiversity; anthropogenic stressors; benthic community dynamics; thermal stress; reef degradation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Ecology)

Hydrodynamic Response to the Effect of Current Loads on Floating Offshore Platform

edited by

Sarat Chandra Mohapatra

and

Kostas Belibassakis

submission deadline 5 Nov 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 14580 | Submission Open

Keywords: theoretical model for floating offshore platforms; interconnected floating platforms under current loads; hydroelastic response of floating offshore platforms; experiments on floating platforms; dynamics of moored platforms; interconnected circular floating platforms; offshore wind turbine platforms; offshore aquaculture bases; effect of seabed topography

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

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