It was at this time that the first modern regional surveys were mounted to begin to understand the distribution of properties in the open ocean. These were multiship, seasonal explorations of large oceanic regions of which some, like EASTROPAC and EQUALANT, responded to the interest of the U...
This paper was written in the framework of COST action on “Ocean Governance for Sustainability - challenges, options and the role of science”, CA15217, within the Working Group ‘Land-Sea-Interaction’. We would like to thank COST, European Union for the funding that made the cooperation ...
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The background map is the Esri world terrain base map (relief/ocean map) using ArcGIS 10.8 environment. Full size image Interpretability of predictive model’s output Synergy matrix Synergy is expressed as percentage of the feature importance. It is additive and sums up to 100% for any pair ...
the other Mediterranean countries. However, these measures are useless if not accompanied by surveillance efforts. Small MPAs, like RNMCB, might have enough resources for local actions of control and inspection of the activities within their borders, but this becomes a challenging task at larger ...
Travel in Xinjiang- the impressive Far West of ChinaThere is a land, located deep in the heart of Asia. A land, hidden behind mountains and deserts, far from the ocean, far from big cities, far from the famous and popular destinations. Land with breathtaking landscapes, stretching from Tibe...
During the past decades, Chinese people have stepped beyond their borders, either to study, work, or travel. Chinese citizens have also entered some conflict-prone areas, either as employees of corporations or as entrepreneurs to open new frontiers. There they cannot avoid physical or security thr...
The Atlantic Ocean is divided into the North and South Atlantic Ocean and is located between America on the west and Europe and Africa on the east. (image credit: https://www.blue-growth.org) It drives weather patterns, facilitates trade between Europe and America, provides a bounty of natu...
Ocean acidification, illegal fishing and overfishing, and marine and water pollution are currently putting our marine and water ecosystems at risk.50 The role of sports to unite people in protecting our planet’s biodiversity and in the fight against climate change could be a genuine game-changer...
Snow that falls in the upper (accumulation) area of glaciers and ice sheets is gradually transformed to glacier ice, where it slowly flows downslope to the lower elevations, the glacier ablation zone. Here glacier ice melts into streams and rivers or calves off into the ocean, and the water...