Almost all ICES member countries have policies that address the impacts of human activities on marine ecosystems. These policies may explicitly be framed as an implementation of an ecosystem approach. An important example is the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) of the European Union (EC, 2008), which is a comprehensive framework for achieving good environmental status (GES) for Europe...

Chronic undersampling of the marine environment, including both biological and physical components, has been and remains a major block to understanding how marine ecosystems function and how they respond to changes, whether natural or anthropogenic. Consequently, data-based models that accurately predict local variations in the abundance of plant and animal life in the sea are rare or do not ex...

Changing the way users interact with their data is the principal objective of the Listen, Communicate, Show (LCS) paradigm. LCS is a new paradigm being applied to Marine Corps tactical logistics. Using a spoken language understanding system a Marine converses with the system to place a supply or information request, which is passed to a mobile, intelligent agent to execute at the proper databas...

Regular activity of the human is being extended to marine and sub-marine regions. Invention of war activity and marine research on minerals and bio-diversity is leading to install wireless sensor devices in deep underwater system. The underwater sensors and network areas are applied through a number of applications like research, water games, self-defense against enmity, finding of minerals and...

• an 'introduced marine pest' by the National Introduced Marine Pest Information System (NIMPIS 2013) • a 'target introduced pest species' by the Australian Ballast Water Management Advisory Council (ABWMAC) (Currie et al. 1998) • a 'medium priority species' (a species which has a reasonably high impact/or invasion potential) in a ranking of Australian marine pests (Hayes et al. 2005). • a repo...

We review existing query answering systems for sensor data. We then propose an extended query answering approach termed smart query, specifically for marine sensor data. The smart query answering system integrates pattern queries and continuous queries. The proposed smart query system considers both streaming data and historical data from marine sensor networks. The smart query also uses query ...