Oil Pollution of Marine Organisms

Effects of Oil Spill Dispersants on Marine Organisms

Editor’s Preface the env 3100 Issues in Environmental Science course is the “writing in the discipline” course for the environmental science program. in partial satisfaction of the course requirements, students must write a literature review on a topic of their choice that is both timely and relevant to the environmental science community. the most outstanding literature review is published in ...

Effects of Oil Pollution on the Marine Environment

EU-MOP (Elimination Units for Marine Oil Pollution)

1. Introduction This paper presents the EU-MOP project (Elimination Units for Marine Oil Pollution) based on the design of an intelligent and autonomous robot system to respond to oil spills. The innovative factor of the EU-MOP project is focused on the functional autonomy and an information system for the tactical management and independent strategy during the operations scenario.

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Fishing constitutes one of the most significant threats to marine biodiversity and ecosystem function, documented by a growing body of information on the numerous impacts to populations, community structure, and habitats (Dayton et al., 1995; Roberts, 1995; Jennings and Polunin, 1996). Besides the more obvious effects on species population structure, fishing activities may also reduce the struc...

Susceptibility of Sardinella lemuru to emerging marine microplastic pollution

Marine microplastics are emerging pollutants that impact across levels of marine food chain at a global scale. Its presence was determined on Sardinella lemuru, a commercial pelagic fish that are harvested generally in the Northern Mindanao, consumed locally, and exported worldwide as bottled or canned sardine products.  The stomach contents of 600 sardines were examined visually under...