Students, teachers and seafarers wishing to look beyond
the AUSMEPA curriculum units on Marine
Pests and Threats and Marine Stormwater
Pollution for further information may find SeaWeb an excellent resource.
Although US based, SeaWeb are exclusively dedicated to
communicating workable, science-based solutions to ocean threats. These threats
are largely common throughout the entire marine environment.
They have five newsletters and of note is the Marine
Science Review, providing citations and abstracts from influential
marine science research.
An extract from the Marine Science Review in July 2013 (below) focuses on Introduced
Species with research information about pollution
from ship ballast and hulls.
July
9, 2013
Introduced Species
- Invasion
Science
- Invasiveness
- Occurrence
and Establishment
- Vectors and
Pathways
- Ballast
Water: Issues and Management
- Impacts
- Introduced
Species and Climate Change
- Introduced
Species and Disease
- Management
Also of note within the SeaWeb
Resources page is the Ocean Issue Briefs page with the following links of note on land-based pollution topics.
Marine Pollution
- Chemical Pollution and Marine Mammals (2008)
- Contaminated Sediments (2004)
- The Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone' (2008)
- Harmful Algal Blooms and Toxins (2007)
- Marine Arctic Contamination (2000)
- Marine Debris (2008)
- Nonpoint Source Pollution and Coastal Environments (2000)
- Nutrients (2002)
- Ports & Dredging (2004)
- Toxic Chemical Pollution (2002)
www.ausmepa.org.au
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