Marine Fouling Protection Technologies: Economics, Coatings and Environmental Health

Dear Colleagues,

Our world is transitioning to civilizations with agriculture, aquaculture, and global transportation. In this new global structure, environmental stewardship is increasingly important if we are to continue to maintain our fragile capacity to sustain and support human beings. The specific colonization and metamorphosis patterns of marine invertebrates are an important research basis for the development of marine fouling protection technologies. From an academic point of view, antifouling technology under various environmental conditions is not only a technical engineering issue but also an ecological issue related to economics, coatings, and environmental health. A major interface between people and the environment is the management of adverse biological activities that affect energy use, generation, and provision of livelihoods and ecosystem services critical to survival. As we approach the carrying capacity of the global population, environmentally sustainable management of biofouling is critical.

Our future depends on environmentally sustainable management. This issue will discuss state-of-the-art research on marine fouling and next-generation, environmentally friendly antifouling technologies.

Dr. Daniel Rittschof
Guest Editor

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• biofouling
• acute toxicity
• chronic toxicity
• endocrine disruption
• plastic pollution
• invasive species
• fouling management
• macrofouling
• microfouling
• e-DNA microbiomes