The impacts of global climate change on the Basque coast and the pelagic systems within the southeastern Bay of Biscay are reviewed. Climate projections under greenhouse gas emission scenarios indicate that this area will experience changes in climate throughout the 21st century, including warming of surface air (especially heat wave episodes), intensification of extreme daily rainfall (10%), w...

Water corrosivity in Gdansk Bay, Poland, the southern part of the Baltic Sea, was investigated. The analysed region is heavily industrialized, and the coastline is very diverse. Twenty-seven test points along the coastline were selected. Water parameters such as salinity, total dissolved solids content, resistivity, conductivity, oxygenation, pH and corrosion rate were determined. The results o...

Fucales are among the key algae on coast of Northern Hemisphere and being actively studied, although minor attention is paid for age structure, since there no reliable signs determining algae. Direct observations thallus growth evidence a variation this trait under different conditions. We assess rate linear number formed dichotomous branching per year in Fucus vesiculosus distichus Murman Coas...

International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 353 (29 November 2014–29 January 2015) drilled six sites in the Bay of Bengal, recovering 4280 m of sediments during 32.9 days of on-site drilling. Recovery averaged 97%, including coring with the advanced piston corer, half-length advanced piston corer, and extended core barrel systems. The primary objective of Expedition 353 is to recons...

The spatial and temporal variability of the partial pressure carbon dioxide (pCO 2 ) over northern tropical Indian Ocean was estimated based on satellite-derived sea surface temperature (SST), salinity (SSS), chlorophyll concentration (Chl-a). distribution pCO is controlled by various physical processes, such as mixing, entrainment, upwelling, advection, associated biological phytoplankton bloo...

The release of silicic acid from sediments is known to play a n important role in determining the silicic acid concentration in the water columns of estuaries, but factors controlling the rate of release are poorly understood. Silicic acid efflux from sandy Chesapeake Bay sediment cores that were maintained in the dark was strongly dependent on biogenic silica deposition, temperature and salini...