We examined sea turtle consumption and illegal trade in Baja California Sur (BCS) using data from (1) bimonthly surveys at beaches, fishing camps and dumpsites and (2) semi-structured interviews with fishermen. From March 2006 to February 2008, we found the carcasses of 1014 sea turtles; the meat of 461 of these turtles (45.5%) had been consumed. The East Pacific green turtle Chelonia mydas was...

In this study, the ability of a regional climate model, based on MM5, to simulate the climate of the Middle East at the beginning of the twenty-first century is assessed. The model is then used to simulate the changes due to global warming over the twenty-first century. The regional climate model displays a negative bias in temperature throughout the year and over most of the domain. It does a ...

Three feeding trials were conducted to evaluate low-gossypol cottonseed flour as a replacement for fish meal in the diet of black sea bass and southern flounder raised in RAS. In experiment 1, diets were formulated to replace 0, 50, 75 and 100% menhaden fish meal protein (FMP) by glandless cottonseed flour protein (GCP) and solvent-extracted cottonseed flour protein (SCP), and to replace 100% F...

This work presents a review of the last developments in the numerical wave modeling in the basin of the Black Sea. A wave prediction system, based on the SWAN (Simulating Waves Nearshore) spectral model, has been implemented and focused on the western side of the sea. Various calibrations and validation tests have been performed considering both in situ and remotely sensed measurements. We foun...

The model marine broadcast-spawner barnacle Chthamalus montagui was investigated to understand its genetic structure and quantify levels of population divergence, and to make inference on historical demography in terms of time of divergence and changes in population size. We collected specimens from rocky shores of the north-east Atlantic Ocean (4 locations), Mediterranean Sea (8) and Black Sea...

Throughout the Late Neogene, the Black Sea experienced large paleoenvironmental changes, switching between (anoxic) marine conditions when connected to the Mediterranean Sea and (oxic) freshwater conditions at times of isolation. We create a magnetostratigraphic time frame for three sites drilled during Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Leg 42B to the Black Sea (drilled in 1975). At the time, ma...