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Healthy Ocean and Marine Pollution, Water Quality Monitoring Challenges and Solutions

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 4404

Special Issue Editors

EIGSI Engineering School, La Rochelle Casablanca, 17041 La Rochelle, France
Interests: oil spills; chronic and accidental pollutions; numerical modeling; statistical analysis; contingency planning; coastal risks
EIGSI Engineering School, La Rochelle Casablanca, 17041 La Rochelle, France
Interests: oceanography; oil and chemical spills; chronic and accidental pollutions; numerical modelling; plankton; hydrodynamics
LIENSs, CNRS – La Rochelle University, 17000 La Rochelle, France
Interests: inorganic pollutions; toxicology; immunology; biomarkers; DNA damage; oxidative stress; metabolism; environmental status; sentinel species
LIENSs, CNRS – La Rochelle University, 17000 La Rochelle, France
Interests: biology and medicine; persistent organic pollutants; biomarkers; ecotoxicology; trace elements; biological status; normalized tools and guidelines

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The growth of emerging substances and the risk of chronic and accidental pollutions has led to a large concern regarding marine ecological status, especially implication on societal dimension with food web contamination and consequently human health. Over the last few decades, ecotoxicological and mechanical tools based on sentinel species and numerical models to evaluate the contamination or contain marine pollutants have been proposed and efficiently included in ecological assessment and contingency plans. Large efforts have been made principally for modeling pollution fate and standardizing water quality control in different coastal areas. Nevertheless, advanced knowledge is required to innovate and assess new protocols, methods and equipment for coastal zones and harbor waters suffering from oil spills or trace elements.

This Special Issue will concern recent scientific and socioeconomic works on the numerical modeling and biological analysis of chronic and accidental marine pollutions, both for operational and research tools at oceanographic basin and local dimensions. Novel protocols and high-quality papers related to numerical modeling, data analysis, contamination assessment of inorganic pollutions and oil spills, and integration in contingency planning with communication purposes to stakeholders and novel trace elements, pharmaceuticals, and microplastics are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Frédéric Muttin
Dr. Rose Campbell
Prof. Dr. Hélène Thomas-Guyon
Dr. Marine-Paomia Breitwieser
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • oil and chemical spills
  • organic and inorganic pollutions
  • numerical modelling and statistical analysis
  • socioeconomic study
  • human health
  • experiments and protocols
  • stakeholder communication and integration in response plan
  • harbors and costal zones
  • ecological status of coastal and marine waters
  • biomarkers
  • oxidative stress
  • zooplankton
  • regional analysis and case study
  • operational tools
  • guidelines

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Characterization of Seasonal Phytoplankton Pigments and Functional Types around Offshore Island in the East/Japan Sea, Based on HPLC Pigment Analysis
by Minji Lee, Yun-Bae Kim, Chan-Hong Park and Seung-Ho Baek
Sustainability 2022, 14(9), 5306; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14095306 - 28 Apr 2022
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In this study, we investigated the seasonal phytoplankton community and phytoplankton functional types (PFTs) in the vicinity of Dokdo Island, located in the East/Japan Sea, in 2019. With strong seasonal winds, the water column was well mixed in winter. In spring and autumn, [...] Read more.
In this study, we investigated the seasonal phytoplankton community and phytoplankton functional types (PFTs) in the vicinity of Dokdo Island, located in the East/Japan Sea, in 2019. With strong seasonal winds, the water column was well mixed in winter. In spring and autumn, the upper mixed layer depth (MLD) was relatively deep, and the Subsurface Chlorophyll Maximum (SCM) formed in the middle layer. Small phytoplankton were dominant in the summer, which is a time of high water temperatures and strong stratification associated with a shallower MLD. Based on CHEMTAX analysis, in spring, the high phytoplankton biomass was mainly derived from cyanobacteria, diatoms, and dinoflagellates. In summer, >73.2% of the surface biomass was comprised of cyanobacteria. In autumn, pelagophytes accounted for the highest proportion of the biomass. The fraction of microphytoplankton (fmicro) was highest in winter and spring, whereas the fraction of nanophytoplankton (fnano) was highest in autumn and summer. A high fraction of picophytoplankton (fpico) was evident in the surface layers in summer. Values for both the photoprotection index (PI) and the ratio of photoprotective carotenoids (PPC) to photosynthetic carotenoids (PSC) indicate that this study area had high primary productivity in 2019. In order to predict long-term changes in marine food webs due to climate change, it is important to evaluate the size and composition of phytoplankton. Full article
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The Sustainable Development Path of the Gold Exploration and Mining of the Sanshan Island-Jiaojia Belt in Laizhou Bay: A DID-SVAR Approach
by Sheng Zhang, Guoxiang Han, Ran Yu, Zuhui Wen, Meng Xu and Yifu Yang
Sustainability 2021, 13(21), 11648; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132111648 - 21 Oct 2021
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Gold is a vital strategic resource, and it plays an irreplaceable role in maintaining national financial security, enhancing currency guarantee capabilities, and serving as a country’s last means of payment. Gold plays an essential role in several fields that are vital to sustainable [...] Read more.
Gold is a vital strategic resource, and it plays an irreplaceable role in maintaining national financial security, enhancing currency guarantee capabilities, and serving as a country’s last means of payment. Gold plays an essential role in several fields that are vital to sustainable development. In 2020, an ultra-large-scale gold deposit spanning land and sea was discovered in Sanshan Island-Jiaojia Belt, Laizhou Bay, China. Its owner, Shandong Gold Group, also established Sanshan Island as a new ecological mine model. Applying a difference in differences-structural vector autoregression (DID-SVAR) approach, our research found that the whole biodiversity of Laizhou Bay decreased by 0.27% purely due to gold exploration in Sanshan Island-Jiaojia. In the long run, gold mining will have an apparent 2.9% adverse effect on marine products, and fishing for marine products will have a 2.1% adverse effect on marine products themselves. Full article
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