2012 Storm water runoff Reef quality decline Wave height change Beach width change $ Value of impact Remedial or preventative Investment How does pollution affect the reef? How does reef structure affect the waves? How do waves affect the beach? How does beach width affect tourism revenues? How much to spend on fixing/preventing runoff? ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Funding was provided through the project ...

W. C. SONZOGNI 1" Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2300 Washtenaw Avenue Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 A. ROBERTSON Office of Marine Pollution Assessment National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Rockville, Maryland 20852 A. M. BEETON Great Lakes and Marine Waters Center University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 ABSTRACT / Al...

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.

Published articles are reprinted here with the permission of the publishers. Cover page: collage of pictures from the proteomics procedure applied in this work superimposed on a photograph of a rocky habitat from the coast of Galicia (July of 2005). Summary vii List of publications ix List of abbreviations xi 1 Environmental proteomics 1 1.1 Biomonitoring and assessment of marine pollution .

1. Basic Concepts 1.1. Air Pollution 1.2. Criteria and Non-Criteria 1.3. Emissions 2. The Epidemiological Model 3. Toxic Trace Elements from Fossil Fuel Combustion 4. Environmental Behavior of Metal Pollutants 4.1. Atmospheric Aerosol Particles 4.2. Aqueous and Marine Environments 4.3. Accumulation of Heavy Metals in Marine Invertebrates 4.4. Heavy Metal ions in Soils 4.5. Methylation of Heavy ...

The measurement of cellular and sub cellular responses to chemical contaminants (referred to as biomarkers) in living organisms represents a recent tool in environmental monitoring. It answers to the need to detect exposure and to assess effects of pollutants on biota. Biomarkers have recently become an integral component of environmental monitoring programmes of marine environments in several ...

The importance of considering statistical power in marine pollution studies is unequivocal. However, the vast majority of ecological literature on power analysis focuses on parametric rather than non-parametric tests. This note describes a Monte Carlo simulation method for estimating the power of non-parametric tests. The method is illustrated using ordinal data.