Trichiurus lepturus (ribbon fish) was collected from different spatial locations (south west (SW) coast edging the Arabian Sea and south east (SE) coast surrounding the Bay of Bengal of India) and seasons (pre-monsoon, monsoon and post-monsoon) during a continuous period of four years (2008 through 2011), and their edible muscles were studied for differential nutritional compositions of protein...

Bacillus cereus JCM44 was isolated from the soil samples collected Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, using a minimal agar medium. It characterized by its ability to biotransform chitin into chitosan at 30°C for 48 h. The Chitosan (CS) recovered 0.1N Sodium hydroxide and 2% acetic acid. confirmed iodine solution with dark purple colouration qualitatively identified acetone ethanol. CS formatio...

1School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Qld, Australia 2Australian Rivers Institute – Coast & Estuaries, School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Qld, Australia 3Centre for Marine Ecosystems Research, School of Natural Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia 4David Clark Labs, Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina...

[1] We have conducted a study to determine the influence of Asian pollution plumes on free tropospheric ozone above the west coast of the United States during spring. We also explored the additional impact of North American emissions on east coast free tropospheric ozone. Long-term ozone monitoring sites in the United States are few, but we obtained ozonesonde profiles from Trinidad Head on the...

the concentrations of some heavy metals in sediment from the sinop coasts of the black sea were measured to monitor metal pollution in 2013. the distribution of the heavy metals in sediments of the black sea shows a variable pattern. the objectives of the present study were to elucidate the distribution heavy metals such as cu, pb, zn, ni, mn, fe, as, cd, cr, hg and co in sediment from sinop co...

Costa Rica has coral communities and reefs on the Caribbean coast and on the Pacific along the coast and off-shore islands. The Southern section of the Caribbean coast has fringing and patch reefs, carbonate banks, and an incipient algal ridge. The Pacific coast has coral communities, reefs and isolated coral colonies. Coral reefs have been seriously impacted in the last 30 years, mainly by sed...