Between March-May 2013 a massive Salpa maxima bloom was recorded by a citizen science study along the Ionian and Adriatic coast of the Salento peninsula (Italy). Citizen records were substantiated with field inspections along the coast and during an oceanographic campaign in the Otranto Channel. Salps clogged nets, impairing fishing activities along the coast. Swimmers were scared by the gelati...

Australian Rivers Institute – Coast and Estuaries, and School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Qld 4222, Australia, School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Qld 4558, Australia, Biogeography Branch, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA, Marine Institute, Plymouth University, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK, ...

Procedures are developed for calculating effects of western boundaries of arbitrary geometry on low-frequency equatorial waves. We show that the mass flux incident at the coast is all returned eastward by equatorial Kelvin waves. Short Rossby waves generated as part of the reflection serve only to redistribute mass along the coast. For the case of a uniformly sloping coast we present formulae a...

The Atlantic Forest is represented on the coast of Brazil by approximately 7.5% of remnants, much of these concentrated on the country's SE coast. Within these southeastern remnants, we still find the coastal Caiçaras who descend from Native Indians and Portuguese Colonizers. The maintenance of such populations, and their existence in spite of the deforestation that occurred on the Atlantic For...

An integrative conflict analysis approach, incorporating an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) based preference ranking method into the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR), is employed to investigate the Canadian west coast port congestion dispute. The Canadian west coast has historically been an important gateway connecting North America to Asia thanks to its specific geographical and str...

The displacement pattern of the serra, Scomberomorus brasiliensis, in North-eastern Brazil was analyzed from landing data recorded form the fleet fishing serra. Serra fishery has two seasons: from Septemer to February (demersal species plus serra), and from March to August (almost only large amounts of serra). S. brasilienisis relative abundance increases similarly along the coast from March. b...

The damage scale and damage area in the coast have been increased dramatically because of calamities such as typhoon, tidal wave, flood and storm. Especially, 409 cases, which reach to about 40.9% of natural disasters of 1,000 cases for the recent 15 years have happened on coast area. More than 40% of natural disasters also occurred every year is happening in coastland. Therefore, there is a gr...

Tar ball (TB) deposition along the West Coast of India (WCI) is a common phenomenon during the southwest monsoon season, particularly along the coast of Goa and Gujarat, and it is a major concern to the stake holders. Our earlier studies showed that the source oil for the TBs deposited on the Goa coast in August 2010 is the tanker wash, and the source for subsequent TBs deposited on the Gujarat...

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...