Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

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Underwater Photogrammetry

edited by

Francesco Rende

submission deadline 15 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 13 | Submission Open

Keywords: underwater photogrammetry; marine benthic habitat; shipwreck mapping; refraction modeling; turbidity and backscatter mitigation; underwater color restoration; SfM/MVS reconstruction; SLAM and real-time mapping; gaussian splatting; sensor fusion (sonar; LiDAR; IMU/RTK); FAIR datasets and benchmarks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)

Advancing the Ultimate Strength of Offshore Structures for Sustainable and Resilient Marine Energy Systems

edited by

Baiqiao Chen

Jonas W. Ringsberg

and

Bin Liu

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 983 | Submission Open

Keywords: ultimate strength; offshore structure; FOWT; FPV; WEC; structural reliability; failure mechanism; machine learning; digital twin; corrosion; fatigue; arctic and ice-resistant structure; sustainable material; life-cycle engineering; mooring system; dynamic power cable

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Ship Structural Vibrations and Underwater Acoustics

edited by Tiangui Ye and Yukun Chen

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 459 | Submission Open

Keywords: analytical and semi-analytic modeling methods; deep learning and data-driven methods; numerical prediction and evaluation technology; active vibration and acoustic radiation control; passive vibration and acoustic radiation control; fluid– structure coupling vibration and sound radiation; transient noise simulation; high-frequency structure vibration problems; nonlinear aspects of vibration and acoustic radiation

Oil Transport Models and Marine Pollution Impacts

edited by

Daniel Constantino Zacharias

Georgios Sylaios

Yang Song

and Angelo Teixeira Lemos

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 82 | Submission Open

Keywords: oil spill model; oil dumping; oil weathering models; marine environmental impacts; response planning; transport and fate models; applications of machine learning in oil spills; remote sensing and validation; applications of AI in decision-support systems; coastal and offshore monitoring

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

New Technologies in Autonomous Ship Navigation

edited by Jiqiang Li,

Guoqing Zhang

Antonio M. Pascoal

and

Weidong Zhang

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 27 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine surface vehicles; sensor-fusion navigation technology; autonomous ship navigation; optimal path planning; dynamic positioning; cooperative control; intelligent control for multiple vehicles

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Advanced Ship Trajectory Prediction and Route Planning

edited by

Nam-kyun Im

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 19 | Submission Open

Keywords: maritime autonomous surface ships (MASSs); AIS-based traffic analysis ; ship maneuvering dynamics ; route planning ; ship trajectory prediction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Wave-Seabed-Structure-Interaction (WSSI) Analysis of Coastal and Offshore Structures

edited by Hongyi Zhao,

V.S. Ozgur Kirca

and

Dong-Sheng Jeng

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 9 | Submission Open

Keywords: wave (current)-seabed interactions; stability and design of marine infrastructures; seabed response and liquefaction; scour; morphodynamics and sediment transport; solute transport in marine environment; marine geohazard and resilience; cyclic loading including waves; current and earthquakes; application of artificial intelligence in marine geotechnics; offshore renewable energy infrastructure

(This special issue belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)

Advances in Marine Electric Propulsion: Technologies, Systems Integration and Sustainable Maritime Transportation

edited by

Mohamad Issa

submission deadline 25 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 181 | Submission Open

Keywords: marine electric propulsion; maritime electrification; hybrid propulsion; energy storage; power management; sustainable shipping; electric motors; battery systems; fuel cells; green maritime

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Multi-Source Data Supported Maritime Traffic Knowledge Discovery for Autonomous Ship Navigation

edited by

Xinqiang Chen

, Huafeng Wu, Dezhi Han and

Octavian Postolache

submission deadline 25 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 28 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart ship; autonomous ship navigation; maritime traffic knowledge discovery; large language model; embodied intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Advances in Altimetry Technologies in Marine Observation

edited by

Kamil Kowalczyk

submission deadline 25 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 6 | Submission Open

Keywords: global and local sea level rise; ocean currents; mesoscale and submesoscale dynamics; coastal ocean; satellite hydrology; altimetry retrackers; tropospheric corrections (e.g.; GPD+); radar interferometry (KaRIn); altimetry calibration and validation; L2/L4 products (multimission analyses)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Reef Ecosystems and Community Invasion Ecology

edited by

Dan Tchernov

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 6 | Submission Open

Keywords: reef ecosystems; community invasion ecology; climate change and ocean warming; ocean acidification; biodiversity shifts; mesophotic and deep-sea reefs; adaptation and resilience; restoration and aquaculture; biogeochemistry

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Ecology)

How Marine Environment Changes Affect Marine Organism's Responses

edited by

Marco Munari

and

Patrizia Stipcich

submission deadline 5 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 36 | Submission Open

Keywords: acclimation; acidification; adaptation; climate change; ocean warming; plasticity; resilience; restoration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)

Wave–Ice Interactions in Oceans: Observations, Modeling, and Dynamics

edited by

Takehiko Nose

and

Joey Voermans

submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 170 | Submission Open

Keywords: wave– ice interactions; wave dynamics under ice cover; sea ice dynamics and thermodynamics under wave action; polar ocean processes; coupled wave– ice models; operational sea ice models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)

Assessment and Monitoring of Coastal Water Quality

edited by

Saša Marcinek

Vlado Cuculić

and

Dario Omanović

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 118 | Submission Open

Keywords: coastal water quality; water pollution; environmental monitoring; anthropogenic impact; bioindicators; trace metals; organic pollutants; eutrophication; emerging contaminants; coastal management

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

Marine Ecological Ranch, Fishery Remote Sensing, and Smart Fishery

edited by

Min Xu

Tingbing Zhu

and

Teruhisa Komatsu

submission deadline 15 May 2026 | Viewed by 179 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial underwater engineering; fisheries resources; seafood; marine ecological ranches; climate change; habitat; over-fishing; remote sensing; artificial intelligent; smart fisheries

(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Ecology)

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