Worldwide growth of offshore renewable energy production will provide marine organisms with new hard substrate for colonization in terms of artificial reefs. The artificial reef effect is important when planning offshore installations since it can create habitat enhancement. Wind power is the most advanced technology within offshore renewable energy sources and there is an urgent need to study ...

High-accuracy wind data for coastal regions is needed today, e.g., for the assessment of wind resources. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is the only satellite borne sensor that has enough resolution to resolve wind speeds closer than 10 km to shore but the Geophysical Model Functions (GMF) used for SAR wind retrieval are not fully validated here. Ground based scanning light detection and ranging...

Two rocky shore ecotypes of Littorina saxatilis from north-west Spain live at different shore levels and habitats and have developed an incomplete reproductive isolation through size assortative mating. The system is regarded as an example of sympatric ecological speciation. Several experiments have indicated that different evolutionary forces (migration, assortative mating and habitat-dependen...

A survey of recreational boat-based and shore-based fishing in the Swan-Canning Estuary Basin was conducted between August 1998 and July 1999. During the survey 1,302 interviews were conducted at boat ramps. The majority of these (62%) were not involved in fishing or crabbing activities, with a further 18 per cent fishing in the adjacent ocean. Of the remainder, 139 boats had been crabbing and ...

Variation in growth and habitat use is closely connected to individual responses to habitat specific resource levels and predation risk. In three mountain lakes which differed in the density of young-of-the-year (YOY) arctic char (Sal elinus alpinus), we studied the growth, diets and habitat use of YOY char in relation to resource levels. With two model approaches, we further examined the exten...

By means of a series of borehole resistivity measurements and a resistivity±salinity relation, a particular salt-freshwater inversion was found under the shore with semi-diurnal tides at the French±Belgian border. These resistivity data provide valuable information about the vertical variation of the saltwater percentage in di€erent boreholes. At di€erent places and depths ̄uctuations of freshwa...

This paper describes a software tool that we have developed at AIAI for modelling the decisions that people make in emergency situations in o shore environments. The tool was developed using C++ and runs on a PC under MS Windows. It has a generic architecture and can be easily extended to other environments with di erent characteristics, e.g., hospitals, commercial buildings, etc. We use frames...

Astrocytic lineage commitment and brain region-dependentspecialization of glia are partly ascribed to epigenetic proc-esses. Clearance of glutamate is an essential task, whichastrocytes assume in a temporal-spatial fashion by distinctglutamate transporter expression. Glutamate transportersubtype 1 (GLT-1) is predominant in cortex (CTX), while itplays an inferior role...