Lutjanus inermis (Peters, 1869), Golden Snapper, range extension to the Galapagos Islands [PDF]
Check List, 2021 The well-cataloged marine fish fauna of the Galapagos Islands includes eight of the 12 species of snappers (Lutjanidae) found in the Tropical Eastern Pacific. A recent recreational scuba dive in the Galapagos produced photographs of an additional snapper
D. Ross Robertson +2 more
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Acanthurus mata (Cuvier, 1829), Elongate Surgeonfish (Acanthuridae), newly recorded in the Tropical Eastern Pacifi [PDF]
Check List, 2021 The reef-fish fauna of the Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) includes 12 species of surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae), five of them in the genus Acanthurus. Recent recreational scuba diving at Isla Darwin in the Galapagos archipelago produced photographs of ...
D. Ross Robertson +2 more
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Submesoscale oceanic eddy detection in SAR images using context and edge association network
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Oceanic eddies have a non-negligible impact on ocean energy transfer, nutrient distribution, and biological migration in global oceans. The fine detection of oceanic eddies is significant for the development of marine science.
Linghui Xia +6 more
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Using a climate attribution statistic to inform judgments about changing fisheries sustainability
Scientific Reports, 2021 Sustainability—maintaining catches within the historical range of socially and ecologically acceptable values—is key to fisheries success. Climate change may rapidly threaten sustainability, and recognizing these instances is important for effective ...
Michael A. Litzow +6 more
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Ecosystem response persists after a prolonged marine heatwave
Scientific Reports, 2021 Some of the longest and most comprehensive marine ecosystem monitoring programs were established in the Gulf of Alaska following the environmental disaster of the Exxon Valdez oil spill over 30 years ago. These monitoring programs have been successful in
Robert M. Suryan +48 more
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The Importance of Ocean Science Diplomacy for Ocean Affairs, Global Sustainability, and the UN Decade of Ocean Science [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 The ocean is highly impacted by human activities, and ambitious levels of science are urgently needed to support decision making in order to achieve sustainability. Due to the high cost and risk associated with ocean exploration and monitoring in time and space, vast areas of the oceanic social ecological system remain under-sampled or unknown ...
Andrei Polejack, Andrei Polejack
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Ozone and NOx chemistry in the eastern US: evaluation of CMAQ/CB05 with satellite (OMI) data [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2015 Regulatory air quality models, such as the Community Multiscale Air Quality model (CMAQ), are used by federal and state agencies to guide policy decisions that determine how to best achieve adherence with National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ...
T. P. Canty +9 more
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Ocean sciences: Follow the fish [PDF]
Nature, 2013 A global, long-term programme of ecological monitoring is needed to track ocean health, say J. Anthony Koslow and Jennifer Couture.
J Anthony, Koslow, Jennifer, Couture
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Oceanic island biogeography: Nomothetic science of the anecdotal
Frontiers of Biogeography, 2017 Islands get more than their fair share of attention from biogeographers, macroecologists and evolutionary biologists. Adding to this existing bias, I claim that oceanic islands, especially oceanic island archipelagos (and among them, especially the ...
Shai Meiri
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Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2012 This article intends to show how oceanographic expeditions redefined and popularized the tropics as a space of postcolonial science and western European imagination in equal measure.
Franziska Torma
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