Marine spatial planning (MSP) is increasingly utilized to sustainably manage ocean uses. Marine protected areas (MPAs), a form of spatial management in which parts of the ocean are regulated to fishing, are now a common tool in MSP for conserving marine biodiversity and managing fisheries. However, the use of MPAs in MSP often neglects, or simplifies, the redistribution of fishing and non-fishi...

Tributyltin (TBT) and other organotin compounds have been restricted for use on leisure boats since 1989 in the EU. Nonetheless, release of TBT is observed from leisure boats during hull maintenance work, such as pressure hosing. In this work, we used a handheld X-ray Fluorescence analyser (XRF) calibrated for antifouling paint matrixes to measure tin, copper and zinc in antifouling paints coat...

Due to the large increase in Florida’s lakefront communities, the issue of noise generated by airboats has become very important. In response to this matter, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission requested a study to determine the major factors and their contribution to the sound generated by airboats. In this study the effect of engine speed, engine type, muffler type, number of bl...

Current Human Reliability Analysis models express error probabilities as a function of task types and operational context, without explicitly modelling the influence different crew behavioral characteristics on probability. The such variability is treated only implicitly, by uncertainty distributions with bounds primarily obtained expert judgment. This paper presents methodology to empirically ...