The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) is the leading mode of North Pacific sea-surface temperature variability and exerts a profound influence on marine fisheries. Focusing on Larimichthys polyactis in the East China Sea (ECS), our analysis reveals a...
Recent offshore hydrocarbon discoveries along the Senegalese–Mauritanian margin increase the need to quantify oil-spill risk under the highly dynamic circulation of the southern Canary Current upwelling system. We investigate seasonal pollutant...
In the western subarctic Pacific, zooplankton biomass is dominated by large copepods such as Neocalanus spp. and Eucalanus bungii, whereas small copepods dominate numerically. To evaluate how mesh size affects long-term monitoring, zooplankton were c...
This study evaluated the spatial distribution, source apportionment, and equivalent ecological risk of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in 18 surface sediments across four Kenyan coral reef ecosystems (Malindi, Watamu, Kilifi, and Mombasa-Nyal...
High-resolution regional ocean models are typically nested within coarser parent models, with resolution ratios limited to avoid spurious artefacts. Consequently, a telescopic grid-nesting strategy is commonly adopted for very high-resolution applica...
The Thai-Malay Peninsula is an important marine biodiversity hotspot at the boundary between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Yet, phylogeographic understanding of macroalgae along the Andaman Sea coast of Thailand remains limited relative to other ben...
Marine mammal tourism (MMT) in Aotearoa/New Zealand operates under one of the world’s most established environmental protection regimes, centred on the Marine Mammals Protection Act 1978 (MMPA) and Marine Mammals Protection Regulations 1992 (MM...
Natural history collections are increasingly being digitised to improve accessibility, preserve valuable specimens, and expand opportunities for biological research. While three-dimensional (3D) imaging techniques such as micro-computed tomography ha...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly able to infer apparent fishing activity, vessel type, encounters, non-cooperative or otherwise low-visibility vessel presence, and other maritime patterns from Automatic Identification System (AIS), vessel...
Understanding how landings and prices of commercially important species co-vary through time is relevant to managing Mediterranean coastal fisheries, yet few studies have examined both jointly across multiple species, markets and years in the eastern...
International marine environmental law increasingly depends on scientific information, but the legal consequences of new monitoring technologies remain underexplored. This article asks when environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring may affect what states k...
Mastigias jellyfish (“tako kurage”) have been reported throughout littoral Japan for over a century, historically identified by morphology alone as Mastigias papua. Molecular resolution of the genus in 2018 revealed three geographically s...
Epigenetic regulation has transformed our understanding of how fish adapt to changing environments by modulating gene expression without altering the underlying DNA sequence. This review explores the “dark mastery” of fish epigenetics by...
This study evaluated the influence of Pseudocnus dubiosus density on the bioremediation of organically enriched marine sediments collected from El Ferrol Bay (Áncash, Peru). A laboratory experimental design was applied, comprising one control...
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are central to global ocean conservation, yet the latent thematic organization of three decades of MPA research has not been systematically characterized. This study applies BERTopic, a transformer-based neural topic mod...
Marine pollution in the Philippine archipelago poses increasing threats to biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health due to rapid urbanization, population growth, and inadequate waste management. As a core region of the Coral Triangle, the P...
As the morphology of a tidal estuary evolves, the overall rate of energy dissipation changes as adjustments occur to channels, meanders and shoals. This occurs in accordance with the principle of increasing entropy production as evolving seabed featu...
During roll-on load-out of a semi-submersible barge, ballast-water regulation directly affects floating-state accuracy, operational safety, and longitudinal structural response. Conventional ballasting relies heavily on predefined plans and operator...
Near-bed mean-flow structure is important to bottom-boundary-layer exchange and sediment-related processes in shallow coastal waters, but vertically resolved observations often require costly acoustic instrumentation. This proof-of-concept study eval...
The Moroccan littoral stretches on 3500 km, including 500 km on the Mediterranean side; this explains the considerable extent of the country’s coastal wetlands. The great variability in the geology and morphology of these littorals has led to a...
The potential benefits of deep sea mining for the International Seabed Authority members and the wider world economy are explained. However, deep sea mining is controversial because of its uncertain effects on deep sea ecology, with severe negative e...
A series of physical model tests of a semi-braceless floating wind turbine foundation (FOWT) under freak waves was conducted in the present work. The extreme wave run-up phenomenon on the FOWT columns was reported and investigated. The back column ex...
Whale shark aggregations in tropical coastal systems are linked to environmental variability and prey dynamics, yet the drivers of surface sightings remain poorly understood. In Nosy Be, Madagascar, a seasonal aggregation of immature whale sharks occ...
Glass sponges (Porifera: Hexactinellida) have been the subject of scientific investigation for over two centuries, yet the temporal and thematic structure of this research effort has never been quantitatively evaluated. Here, we assessed taxonomic ac...
Submesoscale processes in marginal seas are central to the ocean’s energy cascade, mixed-layer dynamics, and biogeochemical exchanges and are typically driven by complex mechanisms influenced by local background currents as well as external for...
Gene editing techniques are well-developed for model microalgae like Chlorella and Chlamydomonas. However, for the high-value species Porphyridium purpureum, its thick cell wall poses a significant barrier to genetic manipulation. Overcoming this cha...
Small pelagic fishes play a crucial role in structuring marine food webs, yet their trophic flexibility and feeding interactions remain poorly understood in highly dynamic, nutrient-rich systems such as upwelling regions. This study combines bulk sta...
This study experimentally investigated the wave transmission and setup characteristics of biomimetic submerged structures as Nature-based Solutions (NbSs) for coastal protection. A non-porous monolithic pillar and a highly porous, multi-branched stag...
Quantitative measurement of macroalgal thallus morphology and its link with epifaunal communities remains largely unexplored in the central Mediterranean. This paper explores the link between thallus morphology and the associated mobile epifaunal ass...
The Guajira Upwelling System (GUS) is located between 10–12.5° N and 61–75.5° W in the Southern–Central Caribbean Sea. This study examines its spatial and seasonal variability using upwelling indices derived from surface dif...
The prediction of ocean wave heights and periods is crucial for reducing maritime accidents. The application of neural networks to predictive modeling eliminates the need for complex parameter schemes that describe specific physical processes, thereb...
To address the lack of compliance with the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs) in conventional timed elastic band (TEB)—based dynamic path planning for autonomous surface vessels (ASVs), this study proposes an i...
Satellite chlorophyll–a (Chla) products are widely used to study coastal productivity, but their performance often degrades in river-influenced and optically complex waters. We evaluated MODIS-Aqua Chla retrievals in the coastal upwelling area...
This work presents new data and several age–depth reconstructions based on distinct approaches to improve previously published age models for sedimentary sequences collected on the Iberian Margin middle shelf: PO287 6-1B, 2G (Porto); PO287 26-1...
Over the past three decades, five satellites have succeeded one another on the reference orbit, building the longest continuous climate record of global sea level measurements. Its continuity is ensured thanks to tandem flights between consecutive sa...
This study outlines a comprehensive analytical methodology applied to a vessel’s operational data to establish a rigorously validated, data-driven baseline for the Marine and Health Usage Monitoring System (MHUMS) algorithmic modules. By correl...
Carukia barnesi is a small tropical Cubozoan that causes painful and potentially fatal stings (Irukandji syndrome) along the north-eastern coast of Australia during the summer monsoonal months between November and May. This research establishes the t...
Accurate prediction of significant wave height (SWH) is essential for fisheries management, coastal socioeconomic activities, and marine ecological conservation. In recent years, deep learning-based bias correction has shown considerable potential fo...
Predicting a ship’s motion trend in waves is crucial for safe navigation and operation. Existing prediction models are mostly based on the assumption of local linear dynamics, which can achieve great performance in idealized ocean environments....
Coastal zones are facing rising exposure to climate-related hazards alongside intensifying human pressures, which highlights the need for robust tools to assess vulnerability. This study uses a GIS-based Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI) to quantify...
To determine the factors influencing juvenile recruitment of the kelp Eisenia bicyclis, a seven-year monitoring survey was conducted in an area affected by seismic subsidence caused by the 2011 earthquake and subsequent breakwater restoration. Juveni...
The Amazon coastal zone exhibits remarkable habitat diversity and species richness, with nutrient-rich estuaries playing a crucial role in local food webs and supporting fish and other aquatic organisms. To examine the distribution of fish larvae and...
Accurately capturing the Kuroshio’s main axis and its multiscale frontal variations remains challenging due to the constraints of traditional fixed-section extraction methods. Here, we develop an adaptive iterative tracking algorithm utilizing...
Wetland landscape classification is fundamental to monitoring changes in ecosystem patterns. This study proposes an ensemble classification approach that integrates Maximum Likelihood Classification (MLC) and Decision Tree (DT) methods with optimized...
Holoplanktonic mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pteropoda) are vital structural and functional components of marine zooplankton communities, characterized by high sensitivity to physicochemical shifts in the water column. Consequently, multidisciplina...
We investigated the autumn-to-winter evolution of water-mass structure and nutrient concentrations in Funka Bay, southwestern Hokkaido, Japan, from October to February (2012–2019). Hydrographic and biogeochemical profiles show a recurrent seaso...
The sound speed profile (SSP) is a core environmental parameter for underwater acoustic detection, navigation, communication, and other applications. However, its accurate acquisition is constrained by the sparsity of observational data and the ill-p...
Port State Control (PSC) inspections play a critical role in enforcing international maritime safety and environmental standards, yet little is known about how compliance behaviour interacts with economic cycles. This study examines the relationship...
Marine oil spills pose critical challenges to environmental sustainability and socioeconomic stability. Taking four pivotal cases as the entry point, this study uses comparative case analysis, semi-structured stakeholder interviews, policy analysis a...
Marine benthic ecosystems along urbanised coastlines face heightened vulnerability due to the cumulative effects of chronic anthropogenic stressors. Climate change intensifies these pressures through more frequent and severe storms, while ongoing coa...
