Essays on Marine Life

Imagine living in a world where it’s not as clean as you remember. All you can see is clear bottles lining the surface of your world, alongside a thick layer of filth including plastic bags, milk bottles and fellow ocean life struggling to inhabit the…

Crayweed Crayweed, or known by its scientific name Phyllospora comosa, is a species of brown algae that is primarily endemic to Australia’s east coast, spanning from Tasmania all the way up to Port Macquarie usually along shallow reefs. In addition, Crayweed was also abundant along…

Anand et al. (1997), have stated that decades ago bioactive compounds have been discovered from marine organism and thought to be of great use and significant in fighting against a pathogenic microorganism. Hughes et al. (2010) have said that due to the major threat of…

According to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and various climate-change models, the temperatures of the waters in tropical regions are to increase by 1.8-4°C over the next century due to climate change (Bates et al. 58). This increase is in addition…

The Great Pacific patch was discovered in 1997 by an American oceanographer named Charles Moore. The patch is located in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. It is largely composed of different types of plastic, chemical sludge and other trash…

Marine environments ant its sediments act as a sink, accumulating many persistent pollutants that will be slowly released and made available for the trophic chain (Di Leonardo et al., 2014). This scenario suggests a need to apply methods for the identification, evaluation and intervention to…

This work presents the effect of a soil washing procedure on a biological system (Mytilus galloprovincialis) maintained in a mesocosm system designed to maintain the resuspension of the sediments, as it can happen in open water in case of storms or turbulence induced by the…

Introduction Opisthobranchia, a specialized group of phylum Mollusca, is the third largest group in Gastropoda. There are more than 3,000 known species of nudibranchs (Holland, 2008) with their habitats ranging from intertidal areas to seabeds a mile deep. Most of the species are exclusively benthic…

The video mosaic method offered an efficient approach for the spatial analysis of cold water coral carbonate mounds and quantifying coral abundance. Having a downward facing camera to analyse the Piddington mounds is essential when studying the carbonate mounds to get an accurate representation of…

Increased human utilization of the world’s oceans has made it important for industrialized countries to actively monitor marine environments in 4-dimensions. The ocean, like many aquatic environments, is presently under-sampled both spatially (3D) and temporally (+1D) due to current approaches to data gathering. Expeditions are…

In the near future, a future that most middle-aged adults living today are more then likely to see sometime in their lifetimes, crystal blue water that once surrounded Florida’s coasts will be coated by toxic algae blooms that harm sea life and the life that…

Mirs Bay through Tolo Channel, suffered an extremely high rate of mortality due to anthropogenic sewage dumping and increasing human settlement along the shorelines (Wong). To conduct their research, the authors focused on six sites along Tolo Harbour and Channel. The six sites are A…

The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Loop Current (LC) forms as water flows from the Caribbean Sea into the GOM through the Yucatan Peninsula. The LC intrudes north, and eventually forms eddies which shed periodically and drift to the westward, driving the deep circulation throughout the…

Crayfish (Astacoidea) are one of the most widespread invasive aquatic genera in the world, a large proportion of their global species have successfully invaded other continents after being introduced intentionally or accidentally (Gherardi 2010). Aquaculture has been one of the primary reasons for introductions to…

Introduction Growing up by the sea side was always fascinating to me. I grew up in the early 90s to experience fishing at the coast by virtue of the fact that we lived beside the beach. Our home was approximately 20 kilometers from the seashore…