Marine Life Essay Examples and Topics

Introduction As the world population continues to rise at an unprecedented rate, it brings along an increasing demand for nourishment to sustain it. This would result in further imbalances in the already intricate ecological systems as various nations attempt to stabilize their own populace. Fish…

Throughout our newest project on sustainability, I have decided to research about the dangers of overfishing. Overfishing is wrong and it should be stopped. According to Discovery News, overfishing is when too many fish are caught, that there isn’t enough fish to produce as much…

Fish have been included in billions of peoples’ diets for many years and the fish industry has become a lucrative job for many. In the last sixty years, overfishing– “catching too many fish at once, so the breeding population becomes too depleted to recover” has…

As our world has become more aware of conservation and sustainability, we have come to understand the importance of the environment and natural resources. Organizations and specific laws were made to protect what is essential to us, one of which being natural resources from the…

Overfishing is a problem that may be overlooked by many. However, this is a problem that needs to be addressed since its causing major problems for our environment. I will begin by discussing the problems that overfishing causes as well as proposing possible solutions. As…

People often think death means sadness and desperation, but do you know death also means contribution and splendid? Whale Fall is a good example of a response to this sentence. Whale fall is a pretty word to describe the death of a whale. Their carcasses…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Orca Enslavment In 2004 SeaWorld Orlando, Florida, one of the world’s most recognizable marine parks, welcomed a beautiful young calf to the world. They named her Kalia and she, being born in captivity, was put straight to work before she even finished nursing. Kalia performed…

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…

Acoustics, very literally corresponds to the field of science which deals with properties of sound. We perceive sound as a wave which travels at about 340m/s and helps in identifying different surroundings and also helps us communicate with our own kind. That being said, do…

The safety monitoring of the offshore platforms and oilfield equipment during the life of the structure is necessary. In these structures, environmental and calamitous factors can have devastating effects on the life and health of the them. It can be named germination and crack growth…

There are numerous techniques for characterizing and monitoring marine habitat; especially coral reefs. These techniques can be grouped into three main types: physical surveys, off-water remote sensing surveys and on-water remote sensing surveys (Sabol et al., 2002). First, the physical surveys or in situ sampling…

Sharks get a bad name every summer for attacking people or being seen on beaches every year. What most people don’t understand is that they are very cool, interesting, and very gentle marine animals. Sharks are part of the Chondrichthyes class and are found mostly…

Corals belonging to the animal kingdom, are in the same phylum as Anemones and Jellyfish. This phylum called Cnidaria, is known for having stinging structures in their tentacles, alternate life cycles between asexual sessile polyps (anemone-like and soft bodied) and sexual free-swimming medusas and lastly…