Marine plastic debris floating on the ocean surface is a major environmental problem.
However, its distribution in the ocean is poorly mapped, and most of the plastic waste …

Surface drifting buoys, or drifters, are used in oceanographic and climate research, oil spill
tracking, weather forecasting, search and rescue operations, calibration and validation of …

Ocean eddies (with a size of 100–300 km), ubiquitous in satellite observations, are known to
represent about 80% of the total ocean kinetic energy. Recent studies have pointed out the …

Reliable forecasts for the dispersion of oceanic contamination are important for coastal
ecosystems, society, and the economy as evidenced by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in …

Satellite observations of the last two decades have led to a major breakthrough emphasizing
the existence of a strongly energetic mesoscale turbulent eddy field in all the oceans. This …

Frontogenesis and frontal instabilities in the mixed layer are known to be important
processes in the formation of submesoscale features. We study the seasonality of such …

Following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident of a massive blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico,
scientists from government, industry, and academia collaborated to advance oil spill …

Concern about marine litter has been rising in the last decades, triggered by the discovery of
the great mid-ocean garbage patches. The Mediterranean Sea is strongly affected by the …

Abstract The Gulf of Mexico ecosystem is a hotspot for biological diversity and supports a
number of industries, from tourism to fishery production to oil and gas exploration, that serve …

Visual ship transect surveys provide crucial information about the density, and spatial
distribution of floating anthropogenic litter in a basin. However, such observations provide a …