Healthy Ocean and Marine Pollution, Water Quality Monitoring Challenges and Solutions
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 5438
Special Issue Editors
Interests: oil spills; chronic and accidental pollutions; numerical modeling; statistical analysis; contingency planning; coastal risks
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Interests: oceanography; oil and chemical spills; chronic and accidental pollutions; numerical modelling; plankton; hydrodynamics
Interests: inorganic pollutions; toxicology; immunology; biomarkers; DNA damage; oxidative stress; metabolism; environmental status; sentinel species
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The growth of emerging substances and the risk of chronic and accidental pollutions has led to a large concern regarding marine ecological status, especially implication on societal dimension with food web contamination and consequently human health. Over the last few decades, ecotoxicological and mechanical tools based on sentinel species and numerical models to evaluate the contamination or contain marine pollutants have been proposed and efficiently included in ecological assessment and contingency plans. Large efforts have been made principally for modeling pollution fate and standardizing water quality control in different coastal areas. Nevertheless, advanced knowledge is required to innovate and assess new protocols, methods and equipment for coastal zones and harbor waters suffering from oil spills or trace elements.
This Special Issue will concern recent scientific and socioeconomic works on the numerical modeling and biological analysis of chronic and accidental marine pollutions, both for operational and research tools at oceanographic basin and local dimensions. Novel protocols and high-quality papers related to numerical modeling, data analysis, contamination assessment of inorganic pollutions and oil spills, and integration in contingency planning with communication purposes to stakeholders and novel trace elements, pharmaceuticals, and microplastics are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Frédéric Muttin
Dr. Rose Campbell
Prof. Dr. Hélène Thomas-Guyon
Dr. Marine-Paomia Breitwieser
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- oil and chemical spills
- organic and inorganic pollutions
- numerical modelling and statistical analysis
- socioeconomic study
- human health
- experiments and protocols
- stakeholder communication and integration in response plan
- harbors and costal zones
- ecological status of coastal and marine waters
- biomarkers
- oxidative stress
- zooplankton
- regional analysis and case study
- operational tools
- guidelines
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