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 ...

449 Gross revenues from marine capture fisheries worldwide are estimated at between US$80 billion and 85 billion annually1–3. As a primary industry4, fisheries support the wellbeing of nations through direct employment in fishing, processing and ancillary services amounting to between US$220 billion and 235 billion annually in 2003 (ref. 5). Globally, fish provide nearly three billion people wi...

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.

As part of ongoing efforts to better understand the nature of shipwrecks in National Marine Sanctuaries which may pose some level of pollution risk, and in this case, to definitively locate what is likely the only shipwreck in a sanctuary involved in both nuclear testing and nuclear waste disposal, NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries collaborated with NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration...

In coastal regions, ecological quality and economic development are highly sensitive to the quality of seawater, which often depends on the discharge of anthropogenic pollution through marine outfalls. This is the case of Cullera Bay (Spanish Mediterranean coast), where bacterial pollution problems are frequent during the tourist season due to its physical configuration, prevailing meteorologic...

Chlordecone is a persistent organochlorine pesticide used in the banana fields of the French West Indies from 1972 to 1993. Three marine habitats (mangroves, seagrass beds and coral reefs) of two study sites located downstream contaminated rivers were chosen to evaluate the level of contamination of marine food webs. On each habitat, the food chain collected included suspended organic matter, p...

[1] The high-resolution mercury record of a Posidonia oceanica mat in the northwest Mediterranean provides an unprecedented testimony of changes in environmental mercury (Hg) loading to the coastal marine environment over the past 4315 yr BP. The period reconstructed made it possible to establish tentative preanthropogenic background Hg levels for the area (6.8 1.5 ng g in bulk sediments). A sm...

This paper represents the results of ten pollution prevention/waste minimization assessments performed on marine maintenance and commercial printing industries in the Hampton Roads area of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The pollution prevention project is the result of a working partnership (the Partnership) formed between Old Dominion University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering...