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ICCAT Manual, (2005-2016).
(2016)Tunas and other large highly-migratory species are typically assessed and managed through international arrangements. Since the distribution of such stocks is not limited to the waters of any single sovereign nation, such ... -
Geotechnical and Geophysical Investigations for Offshore an Nearshore Developments.
(International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, London, UK, 2005)This review of the aspects and techniques of marine site investigation has been produced by Technical Committee 1: Offshore and nearshore geotechnical engineering, of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and ... -
Guide du SHOM pour la Realisation des Leves Hydrographiques, Version 1.1.
(Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (SHOM), Brest, France, 2019)Hydrography, nautical cartography, navigation aids and the dissemination of RSM are key factors for maritime safety and protection of the marine environment. These are also essential elements for the development of a ... -
Standards for Hydrographic Surveys. Edition 4.
(Canadian Hydorgraphic Service, Ottawa, Canada, 2021)Hydrographic surveying is undergoing fundamental changes in measurement technology. The advent of satellite positioning systems, multibeam and multitransducer acoustic systems and sophisticated data processing systems ... -
Good Practice Guidelines for Hydrographic Surveys in New Zealand Ports and Harbours.
(New Zealand Government, Wellington, New Zealand, 2020)These guidelines provide guidance to decision-makers and operators for planning, carrying out and managing hydrographic surveys that: support the safe navigation of vessels in New Zealand ports and harbours help to ... -
IWC photo-identification catalogues: draft guidelines.
(International Whaling Commission, Impington, UK, 2017)The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has a history of using data and analyses from photo-identification catalogues to assist with its work. (Within this document the term ‘photo-ID catalogue’ describes a database ... -
Guidelines for genetic data analysis.
(2018)The IWC Scientific Committee recently adopted guidelines for quality control of DNA data. Once data have been collected, the next step is to analyse the data and make inferences that are useful for addressing practical ... -
Guideline for underwater noise: Installation of impact or vibratory driven piles.
(Danish Energy Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022)This Guideline concerns underwater noise in relation to the construction of offshore wind in Danish waters. Technical methods are presented for performing numerical prognosis and measurements. Also, sets of acoustic criteria ... -
SeagrassNet Manual for Scientific Monitoring of Seagrass Habitat, Worldwide edition.
(University of New Hampshire, SeagrassNet, Durham, N.H., 2015)SeagrassNet is a scientific global monitoring program based at the University of New Hampshire that investigates and documents the status of seagrass resources worldwide and the threats to this important and imperilled ... -
BIAS Standards for noise measurements. Background information, Guidelines and Quality Assurance. Amended version. 2015.
(BIAS - Baltic Sea Information on the Acoustic Soundscape, 2015)These standards were developed in the LIFE+ project BIAS with the intention to be used for long-term measurements of continuous underwater noise. The aim of the standards is to specify the data acquisition process for ... -
Addressing ALDFG in Africa: a best practice guide.
(Sustainable Seas Trust, Gqeberha, South Africa., 2024)Abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) is considered harmful not only because it may lead to ghost fishing, but because fishing gear makes up a significant proportion of macrolitter in the world’s ... -
African Marine Litter Monitoring Manual. 2nd Edition.
(African Marine Waste Network, Sustainable Seas Trust, Gqeberha, South Africa, 2023)The manual evolved from an initiative in the Western Indian Ocean region that was spearheaded by WIOMSA (Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association) and Sustainable Seas Trust. The first edition created considerable ... -
Sediment Sample Collection and Preparation for the Analysis of Plastic-Related Pollutants.
(Sustainable Seas Trust, Gqeberha, South Africa., 2023)As research on plastic-related pollutants grows in Africa, it will become increasingly important to use harmonized methods to prepare and analyse samples for further analyses, so that results can be compared across the ... -
Remote Monitoring Checklist for Radial Sites : Remote monitoring , 11 August 2011.
(CODAR Ocean Sensors, Mountain View, CA, USA, 2011)Some basic daily and weekly checks of diagnostics and data quality will help in network maintenance and remote troubleshooting and early detection of any problems creeping up resulting in less downtime and overall time and ... -
100% Sustainable Ocean Management: an Introduction to Sustainable Ocean Plans.
(High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (Ocean Panel), Washington, DC, 2021)In its Transformations for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (Transformations) launched in December 2020, the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (Ocean Panel) announced a shared vision for the sustainable development ... -
Science-Policy Interfaces: From Warnings to Solutions.
(International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), 2022)Key Messages and Recommendations • Since 1972, a variety of science-policy interfaces (SPIs) have been deployed in global environmental governance to identify environmental risks and propose solutions. • The landscape ... -
Science-policy interface for plastic pollution.
(GRID-Arendal, Arendal, Norway, 2023)The international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution serves as a crucial mechanism for navigating the intricacies of the global plastic pollution crisis and fostering the development of evidence-based ... -
An automatic identification algorithm of internal solitary wave for mooring data based on geometric characteristics of the flow field.
(2023)Internal solitary wave (ISW) is one of the most important sub-mesoscale phenomenas in the ocean, and detection of which is of utmost significance for marine exploitation, ecological environment protection and military ... -
Digital Twin Earth - Coasts: Developing a fast and physics-informed surrogate model for coastal floods via neural operators.
(Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, 2021)Developing fast and accurate surrogates for physics-based coastal and ocean models is an urgent need due to the coastal flood risk under accelerating sea level rise, and the computational expense of deterministic numerical ... -
Uncertainties in Steric Sea Level Change Estimation During the Satellite Altimeter Era: Concepts and Practices.
(2017)This article presents a review of current practice in estimating steric sea level change, focussed on the treatment of uncertainty. Steric sea level change is the contribution to the change in sea level arising from the ...
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