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Jessica J. Sportelli, Kelly M. Heimann and Brittany L. Jones
Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) rely on frequency- and amplitude-modulated whistles to communicate, and noise exposure can inhibit the success of acoustic communication through masking or causing behavioral changes in the animal. At the US Navy ...
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Anna Lisa Cescon, James Andrew Graham Cooper and Derek W. T. Jackson
Beach ridges originate from various depositional processes and occur in a variety of settings. This paper assesses their nature and distribution on the islands of the Greater Caribbean based on a literature review and the identification of sites using Go...
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Christine E. Sanders and Raymond J. Santucci, Jr.
A rigorous assessment of marine atmospheric corrosion at a controlled NRL test site in Key West Florida was conducted. Certain factors which have been previously implicated in the literature as influencing the corrosion of engineering materials in atmosp...
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Lingjie Wu, Chenchi Jiang, Weiqiang Wang, Xiang Gao and Yufeng Xia
In contrast to the marine environment, coastal regions encompass substantial saline soils characterized by complex corrosive chemical compositions. This poses notable challenges to the durability of concrete structures erected in coastal dredger fill sil...
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Omar El Hawary, Luca Boccarusso, Martin P. Ansell, Massimo Durante and Fulvio Pinto
Environmental emergency awareness has been gaining momentum in recent years in the composite manufacturing industry, with a new generation of composite materials minimizing their harmful environmental impacts by employing more sustainable manufacturing p...
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Fei Li, S. G. Cheung, P. K. S. Shin, Xiaoshou Liu, Yanan Li and Fanghong Mu
Ocean acidification threatens marine organisms continuously. To ascertain if adaptation of marine species to ocean acidification enhanced over multiple generations, we studied the transgenerational effects of ocean acidification on the development, repro...
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Jaehui Bang and Eunkyung Lee
In this study, the surface properties of marine structures were improved by applying a twin wire arc spray process to high-strength low alloys. The effect of Al and Mo contents in Ni-Al coatings on their mechanical and corrosion behaviors was analyzed us...
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Donat-P. Häder and Kunshan Gao
Aquatic ecosystems are responsible for about 50% of global productivity. They mitigate climate change by taking up a substantial fraction of anthropogenically emitted CO2 and sink part of it into the deep ocean. Productivity is controlled by a number of ...
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Evan Anderson, Budi Gunawan, James Nicholas, Mathew Ingraham and Bernadette A. Hernandez-Sanchez
Marine energy generation technologies such as wave and tidal power have great potential in meeting the need for renewable energy in the years ahead. Yet, many challenges remain associated with marine-based systems because of the corrosive environment. Co...
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Anna Sabbatini, Francesca Caridi, Giovanni Birarda, Elisa Costanzi, Adolfo Amici, Giovanna Mobbili, Carla Buosi, Giovanni De Giudici, Daniela Medas and Alessandra Negri
The most often dispersed environmental pollutants that are released both directly and indirectly into the environment that may eventually reach aquatic ecosystems and contaminate aquatic biomes are cigarette butts (CBs). Toxicants such as nicotine, dange...
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