We present a passive sonar tracking algorithm that utilizes variations in the amplitude of the signal received from a source in motion. The approach is model-based in that it employs an acoustic propagation computer program, and Bayesian in that prior knowledge is used to compute a posterior probability distribution function from which the target location is estimated. The algorithm is designed...

The Brazil-Malvinas Confluence (BMC) is the region where opposing and intense western boundary currents meet along Southwestern Atlantic slope at about 38°S, generating one of most energetic mesoscale regions global ocean. Based on shipborne observations acquired within Uruguayan Economic Exclusive Zone (EEZ), combined with satellite data an eddy tracking algorithm, we analyze cross-shelf excha...

Four sedimentary sections were logged and sampled from upper Tortonian-lower Messinian outcrops on the island of Crete (Greece). The collected material yielded about 60 bryozoan species belonging to nine different colonial morphotypes. A few are stenobathic, indicating either shallow- or deep-water environments, but most them eurybathic (with bathymetric ranges extending in some instances shelf...

Species composition and long-term distribution of shrimp meroplankton in eastern part Okhotsk Sea are described. Interannual seasonal variability qualitative quantitative is discussed. Average abundance larvae per station different areas spring varied within 1–77.5 ind./m2, first half summer – 13.1–133 September 1–27 ind./m2. Larvae genera Pandalus Eualus were most abundant April. In family Cra...

1. Theoretical investigations of the vertical structure of mean currents, tidal flows, and low frequency (infragravity) oscillations on the inner shelf and inside the surf zone. This work expands on recent theoretical developments for shear instabilities that follow methodology developed for tidal flows on the continental shelf. Results will be compared with field data examined as part of the s...

The study of existing cores collected across the Wilkes Land margin provides us with a better understanding of the sediment distribution and processes across this margin during the Holocene, and during Pleistocene glacial and interglacial cycles. Holocene depositional rates are high in deep (>1000m) inner-shelf basins where diatomaceous ooze is deposited at estimated minimum sedimentation rates...

The recently declared Australian Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR) Network covers a total of 3.1 million km2 of continental shelf, slope, and abyssal habitat. Managing and conserving the biodiversity values within this network requires knowledge of the physical and biological assets that lie within its boundaries. Unfortunately very little is known about the habitats and biological assemblages ...

The processes that convert bioavailable inorganic nitrogen to inert nitrogen gas are prominent in continental shelf sediments and represent a critical global sink, yet little is known of these pathways in the Arctic where 18% of the world's continental shelves are located. Moreover, few data from the Arctic exist that separate loss processes like denitrification and anaerobic ammonium oxidation...

The East China Sea (ECS) is a region with shallow continental shelves and a mixed oceanic circulation system allowing sediments to deposit on its inner shelf, particularly near the estuary of the Yangtze River. The seasonal northward-flowing Taiwan Warm Current and southward-flowing China Coastal Current trap sediments from the Yangtze River, which are accumulated over time at rates of up to a ...

a r t i c l e i n f o The extent of glaciation in northwestern Alaska, the source of sediment supply to the Chukchi shelf and slope, and the movement of sea ice and icebergs across the shelf during the last glacial maximum (LGM) remain poorly constrained. Here we present geophysical and geological data from the outer Chukchi margin that reveal a regionally extensive, heavily ice-scoured surface...