marine environment
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- Understand the full benefits of offshore renewables. To identify and mitigate their environmental impacts by establishing socio-economic evidence to provide information to influence marine policy and development decisions
- How do we best survey and monitor underwater wrecks and waterlogged munitions (including the SS Richard Montgomery)?
- Improve fish stock assessments over a greater range of species and improve management of freshwater, migratory, and marine fisheries, and protected species
- Further our understanding of how climate change is affecting the health of the ocean as a result of acidification and warming seas
- Integrate fisheries monitoring in a systems approach to manage and maintain sustainable productivity. Integrate marine planning systems to protect habitats and species, and reduce the industry’s costs to enable economic development
- How can we understand better land/sea interactions?
- Determine the socio-economic costs of plastic litter on marine wildlife, ecosystems, and maritime industries. The costs incurred from changing to other materials, including the potential benefits to be made from new industries including small medium-size enterprise.
- Estuarine ecosystems provide many services to humans, but these ecosystems are also under pressure from human development, which has led to large investments in habitat protection and restoration.
- The occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment has become a matter of concern in the last decade due to potential risks posed to non-target organisms and the potential for unintended human exposure via food chain.
- Coral reef degradation due to environmental change, including anthropogenic disturbances, is a major concern worldwide.
- Estimates of potential phytoplankton production in natural waters are usually based on chemical assay of nitrogen and phosphorus compounds.
- Over the past decade, the global proliferation of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs) have presented a major risk to the public and wildlife, and ecosystem and economic services provided by inland water resources.
- Much of the chemical waste from human activities finds its way into the marine environment, and is particularly prevalent in estuarine and coastal situations, which are frequently the sites of land drainage and industrial activity (Guerin, 1978).
- Spilled oil is one of the most serious marine environment disasters, which damaged ecological environment seriously with long-term and large-scale impact.
- Chlorophyll fluorometers provide the largest in situ global data set for estimating phytoplankton biomass because of their ease of use, size, power consumption, and relatively low price.
- Oceanic conditions play an important role in determining the effects of climate change and these effects need to be monitored.
- Underwater noise can have major impacts on marine fauna, especially because sounds travels very efficiently underwater, creating a large spatial spread from a source.
- Cultural eutrophication is frequently invoked as one factor in the global increase in harmful algal blooms, but is difficult to definitively prove due to the myriad of factors influencing coastal phytoplankton bloom development.
- Coastal regions below the sea level, subject to reclamation, are becoming more and more exposed to flooding following increasing urbanization and hydrological changes.
- Seagrasses provide an important ecosystem service by creating a stable erosion-resistant seabed that contributes to effective coastal protection.
- How effective are marine protected areas and how can we monitor and evaluate the ecological, social, economic, and cultural costs and benefits of these areas?
- Identify, prioritise, and investigate scientific and technical challenges for remediation from a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear (CBRN) or HAZMAT event
- Molecular biology: The ongoing evolution in the costs, speed, and ease of DNA measurements will allow entirely new approaches to complement traditional biodiversity monitoring and increase understanding of ecosystems, biodiversity, diseases, and other aspects of the environment
- Assess how marine protected areas can act as nature-based solutions to the effects of climate change by sequestering carbon