Genotoxic effects of marine pollutants on coastal meso-zooplankton populations–A mini-review

S Thirunavukkarasu, JS Hwang - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2024 - Elsevier
Meso-zooplankton plays a vital role in maintaining healthy marine ecosystems, and some of
the taxa provide biological indications for the monitoring of environmental and climate …

Super-hydrophobic graphene-based high elastic sponge with superior photothermal effect for efficient cleaning of oil contamination

X Qi, C Li, X Zou, L He, Z Liu, Z Gao - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Oil spills are frequent and often accompanied by chemically corrosive and complex
operating environments, so there is an urgent need for new absorbent materials that can …

Detection of marine oil spills from radar satellite images for the coastal ecological risk assessment

X Ma, J Xu, J Pan, J Yang, P Wu, X Meng - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Coastal ecosystems offer substantial support and space for the sustainable development of
human society, and hence the ecological risk evaluation of coastal ecosystems is of great …

Marine protected areas and electronic navigational charts: legal foundation, mapping methods, IHO S-122 portrayal, and advanced navigation services

S Contarinis, C Kastrisios, B Nakos - Euro-Mediterranean Journal for …, 2023 - Springer
A strategic instrument for the sustainable conservation of the fragile marine ecosystem is the
designation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), within which various regulations exist for the …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling chronic oil pollution from ships

S Liubartseva, G Coppini, G Verdiani, T Mungari… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Stochastic simulations of virtual oil spills from ships were performed for the Adriatic Sea over
2017–2020, applying the European Marine Observation and Data Network vessel densities …

A deep learning based oil spill detector using Sentinel-1 SAR imagery

YJ Yang, S Singha, R Mayerle - International Journal of Remote …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Eastern Mediterranean Sea has been known as an oil pollution hotspot due
to its heavy marine traffic and an increasing number of oil and gas exploration activities. To …

Tar patties are hotspots of hydrocarbon turnover and nitrogen fixation during a nearshore pollution event in the oligotrophic southeastern Mediterranean Sea

M Rubin-Blum, Y Yudkovsky, S Marmen, O Raveh… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Weathered oil, that is, tar, forms hotspots of hydrocarbon degradation by complex biota in
marine environment. Here, we used marker gene sequencing and metagenomics to …

Maritime traffic trends around the southern tip of Africa–Did marine noise pollution contribute to the local penguins' collapse?

L Pichegru, L Vibert, A Thiebault, I Charrier… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The rapid increase in seaborn trade since the 1990s has resulted in an increase in vessel-
derived noise pollution, yet there is little evidence linking these activities to a decline in …

Oil spill detection using fluorometric sensors: Laboratory validation and implementation to a FerryBox and a Moored SmartBuoy

S Pärt, H Kankaanpää, JV Björkqvist… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A large part of oil spills happen near busy marine fairways. Presently, oil spill detection and
monitoring are mostly done with satellite remote sensing algorithms, or with remote sensors …

Tar pollution event (2021) at the Southeastern Levantine oligotrophic basin, short-term impacts and operational oceanography perspectives

B Herut, R Goldman, T Ozer, A Lazar, E Biton… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
The Levantine basin (LB) in the Southeastern Mediterranean Sea is a high-risk oil pollution
hot spot owing to its dense maritime traffic and intense oil and gas exploration and …