Going green and cold: biosurfactants from low-temperature environments to biotechnology applications

A Perfumo, IM Banat, R Marchant - Trends in biotechnology, 2018 - cell.com
Approximately 80% of the Earth's biosphere is cold, at an average temperature of 5° C, and
is populated by a diversity of microorganisms that are a precious source of molecules with …

Assessment of marine litter through remote sensing: recent approaches and future goals

PM Salgado-Hernanz, J Bauzà, C Alomar… - Marine Pollution …, 2021 - Elsevier
This bibliographic review provides an overview of techniques used to detect marine litter
using remote sensing. The review classified studies in terms of platform (satellite, aircrafts …

[HTML][HTML] Oil spill detection by imaging radars: Challenges and pitfalls

W Alpers, B Holt, K Zeng - Remote sensing of environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Criteria for discriminating between radar signatures of oil films and biogenic slicks visible on
synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of the sea surface as dark patches are critically …

The ocean's vital skin: Toward an integrated understanding of the sea surface microlayer

A Engel, HW Bange, M Cunliffe, SM Burrows… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Despite the huge extent of the ocean's surface, until now relatively little attention has been
paid to the sea surface microlayer (SML) as the ultimate interface where heat, momentum …

An advanced analytical approach to assess the long-term degradation of microplastics in the marine environment

C Maddison, CI Sathish, D Lakshmi… - npj Materials …, 2023 - nature.com
Determining the hazards posed by microplastics (MPs,< 5 mm) requires an understanding of
plastic degradation processes when exposed to environmental weathering forces. However …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring oil spill in Norilsk, Russia using satellite data

S Rajendran, FN Sadooni, HAS Al-Kuwari, A Oleg… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
This paper studies the oil spill, which occurred in the Norilsk and Taimyr region of Russia
due to the collapse of the fuel tank at the power station on May 29, 2020. We monitored the …

Enrichment of perfluoroalkyl substances in the sea-surface microlayer and sea-spray aerosols in the Southern Ocean

G Casas, A Martínez-Varela, JL Roscales… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sea-spray (or sea-salt) aerosol (SSA) formation and their subsequent atmospheric transport
and deposition have been suggested to play a prominent role in the occurrence of ionizable …

[HTML][HTML] The application of satellite image analysis in oil spill detection

P Tysiąc, T Strelets, W Tuszyńska - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, there has been an increasing use of satellite sensors to detect and track oil
spills. The satellite bands, namely visible, short, medium infrared, and microwave radar …

Biological controls on marine volatile organic compound emissions: A balancing act at the sea-air interface

KH Halsey, SJ Giovannoni - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) comprise a vast pool of low molecular weight and
rapidly diffusible chemicals that are emitted from all cells as well as by photolysis of …

The Atlantic Ocean surface microlayer from 50°N to 50°S is ubiquitously enriched in surfactants at wind speeds up to 13 m s−1

B Sabbaghzadeh, RC Upstill‐Goddard… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We report the first measurements of surfactant activity (SA) in the sea surface microlayer
(SML) and in subsurface waters (SSW) at the ocean basin scale, for two Atlantic Meridional …