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Open Journal of Marine Science (OJMS) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in marine science. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of marine…
Reza Bozorgpour, Behrouz Omaraee, Mohsen Vaez Zadeh Asadi
Nowadays, shipping industry which is the backbone of economic development has affiliated to ship maintenance and repair industry. This industry provides technical maintenance services to ships in a way to enable them to meet the requirements and regulations o…
Omid Nourani, Mehdi Behdarvandi Askar
As the Armor shape has a significant effect on the reduction of wave overtopping, this study compares the performance of various shapes of concrete armored blocks of X block and Tetrapod as the most suitable armors. In this study, a three-dimensional numerica…
Hans Ulrik Riisgård
The invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi , which comes from North America’s east coast, was observed in Danish waters for the first time in 2007. Since then, the new invader has every summer spread in Danish and adjacent waters ( i.e . North Sea, Limfjorden,…
Ghazi Mirsaeid Mojgan, Mohammad Mehdizadeh Mehdi, Bannazadeh Mohammad Reza
Knowing the pattern of surface winds on the seas and oceans and how it changes over time is of great importance. In this research, the monthly surface wind fields on the Indian Ocean have been studied and analyzed for a 35-year period (1981-2015), using NCEP/…
Ariadne Hernández-Pérez, Jesús Alejandro Zamora-Briseño, Juan Antonio Pérez Vega, Richard Juan de Dios Mena-Loria, Daniel Coronado-Molina, Jorge Hernández-López, Norma Angelica-López-Téllez, Rossanna Rodríguez-Canul
A survey for Infectious Hypodermal and Haematopoietic Necrosis Virus (IHHNV) and White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) was performed during two catching seasons of native shrimps in the Yucatan Coast in the Gulf of Mexico. The mtDNA COI barcode identified two ende…
Tzachy Y. Morad, Zvy Dubinsky, David Iluz
Coastal pollution assessment is a pressing matter as the anthropogenic pressure continues to increase worldwide. A leading approach to assess coastal pollution is using bioindicators. However, identifying species is time-consuming and demands profound morphol…
Alba Garcia Rodriguez, Lucia M. Fanning
Given the socio-economic consequences associated with declaring areas of ocean protected in order to achieve conservation objectives, this paper contributes to the growing global need to assess Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as an effective management tool. It…
Jun Li, Bangqi Hu, Jingtao Zhao, Fenglong Bai, Yanguang Dou, Libo Wang, Liang Zou, Xue Ding
Natural radioactivity is very important for the assessment of the marine sand property and usability. By using gamma spectrometry, the concentration of the natural radionuclides 226 Ra, 232 Th and 40 K have been measured in marine sand deposits from Liaodong…
Jin-Liang Wang, Hui-Feng Li
It follows from the review on classical wave models that the asymmetry of crest and trough is the direct cause for wave drift. Based on this, a new model of Lagrangian form is constructed. Relative to the Gerstner model, its improvement is reflected in the ho…
Sossoukpe Edmond, Azonningbo S. H. Wilfrid, Fiogbe Emile Didier
West African Ilisha was the third most abundant species of Clupeidae off Benin coastal waters after Sardinella spp and Ethmalosa frimbriata . The fishing effort of these fisheries increased with a dominance of small-sized specimens in the catches. This paper…
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