Oceanography and Marine Assessment

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• Marine habitats — Coral reefs provide marine habitats for tube sponges, which in turn become marine habitats for fishes Littoral zone …   Wikipedia

• Marine spatial planning — (MSP) is a tool that brings together multiple users of the ocean – including energy, industry, government, conservation and recreation – to make informed and coordinated decisions about how to use marine resources sustainably. MSP uses maps to… …   Wikipedia

• Marine pollution — While marine pollution can be obvious, as with the marine debris shown above, it is often the pollutants that cannot be seen that cause most harm. Marine pollution occurs when harmful, or potentially harmful effects, can result from the entry… …   Wikipedia

• Marine biology — Only 29 percent of the world surface is land. The rest is ocean, home to the marine lifeforms. The oceans average four kilometers in depth and are fringed with coastlines that run for nearly 380,000 kilometres. Marine biology is the scientific… …   Wikipedia

• Marine protected area — Milford Sound, New Zealand is a Strict Marine Reserve (Category Ia) Mitre Peak, the mountain at left, rises 1,692 m (5,551 ft) above the sea.[1] Marine protected areas, like any protected area, are regions in which human activity has… …   Wikipedia

• Marine conservation — Coral reefs have a great amount of biodiversity. Marine conservation, also known as marine resources conservation, is the protection and preservation of ecosystems in oceans and seas. Marine conservation focuses on limiting human caused damage to …   Wikipedia

• Marine conservation activism — Animated map of the world s oceanic waters. Marine conservation activism refers to the efforts of non governmental organizations and individuals to bring about social and political change in the area of marine conservation. Marine conservation is …   Wikipedia

• Marine reserve — For the United States Marine Corps Reserve see: Marine Forces Reserve A marine reserve is an area of the sea which has legal protection against fishing or development. This is to be distinguished from a marine park, but there is some overlap in… …   Wikipedia

• Marine snow — Underway recovery of a sediment trap used to collect marine snow and estimate export production In the deep ocean, marine snow is a continuous shower of mostly organic detritus falling from the upper layers of the water column. It is a… …   Wikipedia

• National Institute of Oceanography, India — National Institute of Oceanography Motto …   Wikipedia

• Climate and Forecast Metadata Conventions — The Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata conventions are conventions for the description of Earth sciences data, intended to promote the processing and sharing of data files. The metadata defined by the CF conventions are generally included in the… …   Wikipedia