马里恩象龟

<正>马里恩象龟是草食动物,白天它们都各自寻找草木,只有晚上才聚隼在一起,在后来发现的1708年的一本航海日记里有这样的记载:在这个岛屿上有许多象龟,它们晚上聚集在一起,一个紧挨一个,就像是地上的铺路石。这是反映塞舌尔群岛象龟数量之多的一个真实记载。     

塞舌尔群岛上象龟现状

<正>有不少读者看了上一期的拯救栏目后对象龟产生了极大的兴趣,纷纷来信询问塞舌尔群岛上其他象龟的现状,小编就在此介绍一下。象龟是塞舌尔群岛的一大特色,曾经有6个品种,后来由于捕杀等众所周知的原因导致有些品种已经灭绝。在塞舌尔诸多海岛中有一个龟岛举世闻名,即阿尔达布拉岛,目前是原始生物保护区,其他岛上的象龟数目并不很多,只能在景点里观赏到。阿尔达布拉岛上最主要的象龟就是阿尔达布拉象龟,由于群岛得到了保护,受人类的影响较     

塞舌尔群岛上象鱼现状

有不少读者看了上一期的“拯救”栏目后对象龟产生了极大的兴趣,纷纷来信询问塞舌尔群岛上其他象龟的现状,小编就在此介绍一下。     

索马里海盗

索马里的灾难成因很复杂，从历史上看，欧洲殖民者导致的部落矛盾是其根源之一。从1991年开始索马里没有一个能够控制全国的政府，军阀混战、战火和天灾使社会经济已经崩溃，近几年的大饥荒使几十万人因饥饿致死。     

列队护航索马里

随着索马里海盗对过往船只造成的威胁日益严重，世界各大国均派海军前去为民用船只进行护航，也再一次展示了各国精锐舰艇的风彩。     

索马里海盗

最近，索马里海盗频频出现在人们的视线内，或许是金融危机影响的缘故，他们接连向过往船只发起袭击。就在世界第二大油轮“天狼星”号的下落刚刚被确定后，一艘悬挂着香港区旗的伊朗万吨货轮又在索马里北部的亚丁湾被劫持。     

蓝色新事

标本Specimen世界上最后一只平塔岛龟标本将在纽约展出近日美国自然历史博物馆宣称,世界著名的加拉帕戈斯群岛象龟孤独的乔治的遗体,将由专门的标本和保护小组人员接手处理,这支小组近期修复了美国自然历史博物馆北美     

日本地震震碎南极冰层

欧洲空间局8月9日表示．3月的日本海啸影响到了13万千米外的南极冰架．部分冰层碎裂成巨大冰山。在位于马里兰州的美国宇航局戈达德太空飞行中心,由冰川专家凯利·布伦特领导的一个团队对海啸引发的冰崩进行了研究,其研究结果8月8日公布在了在线期刊《冰川杂志》上。     

中国海军开赴索马里

2008年12月26目，中国人民解放军海军舰艇编队开赴索马里海域执行护航任务。这是新中国的舰队第一次渡海“远征”，也是自15世纪初郑和下西洋之后600年来中国海军的首次远洋作战行动。中国海军护航舰艇编队由中国人民解放军海军南海舰队“武汉”号、“海口”号导弹驱逐舰和“微山湖”号综合补给舰组成。编队主要任务是：保护中国航经亚丁湾、索马里海域船舶、人员安全，     

不美的美人鱼——带你走进海牛和儒艮的世界

很难想象大象的亲戚会生活在海中,海牛目在海洋哺乳动物中是相当特殊的一群,所属物种均为植食性,以海草与其他水生植物为食。现存共有四种海牛目动物,分为两个科:海牛科的3种海牛,与儒艮科的儒艮。儒艮科的另一物种大海牛曾存活至近代,但已在18世纪时被猎捕至灭绝。     

美国的船坚炮利,非一日之功

正2015年7月,我参加了美国海洋文化交流夏令营。在十几天的游览里,从东海岸到西海岸,我们走遍了华盛顿、纽约、费城、洛杉矶、圣地亚哥等大城市,对美国的风土人情有了初步的了解。同时,契合海洋这个主题,美国东海岸马里兰州的美国海军军官学校和西海岸加州圣地亚哥军港内的中途岛号航母博物馆自然成为了我们的拜访地。     

Dynamic Analysis of Semi-Submersible Production Platform Under the Failure of Mooring Lines

This paper quantitatively studies the transient dynamic response of a semi-submersible production platform with the loss of one or several positioning mooring lines.A semi-submersible platform,production risers,and positioning mooring lines are all included in the numerical simulation.Increased motion of the semi-submersible platform,tension variation of the remaining mooring lines/risers and the risk of mooring line or riser clashing are all investigated through fully coupled time-domain analysis.Combined environmental loads are selected from irregular waves and the steady current varying from very rough to extreme sea conditions.Three dimension radiation/diffraction theories and Morison’s equation are applied to calculate first-order wave force and second-order mean drift force of floating semi-submersible platform.Nonlinear time-domain finite element methods are employed to analyze the behavior of mooring lines and risers.Results show that the failure of mooring lines seriously reduce the platform’s stability performance.The tension of the rest lines is also increased accordingly.Remaining lines which are closer to the failed lines will have larger tension increase to compensate.Line-Line distance provides practical information for the risk of clashing investigation.     

36.5万年以来西边界底流冰期-间冰期不稳定性与ODP 646站位(拉布拉多海)黏土级沉积碎屑Sm/Nd比率的关系

1区域概况随着气候—海洋系统模拟工作力度的加大,相关古气候改变北大西洋深层水(NADW)生产力速率的论著十分亟需。大多数作者认为整体的NADW生产力在冰期降低,他们的推断范围不完全一致。冰期更大量的南大洋水体涌入北大西洋,而且北大西洋深部对流现在已被更浅的和更南部的对流所取代。有关更新世末次冰期—间冰期旋回NADW演变,主要研究成果如下:(1)沿冰岛—苏格兰溢流水团路径从冰岛盆地采集柱状样,对其进行磁各向异性测试。变化结果同过去20万a水体可变强度相关联。冰期氧同位素2期、4期、6期较之间冰期1期、3期、5期有30%的强度衰…     

Temporal-spatial oceanic variation in relation with the three typical Kuroshio paths south of Japan

Empirical orthogonal function(EOF) analysis was applied to a 50-year long time series of monthly mean positions of the Kuroshio path south of Japan from a regional reanalysis. Three leading EOF modes characterize the contributions from three typical paths of the Kuroshio meander: the typical large meander path, the offshore nonlarge meander path, and the nearshore non-large meander path, respectively. Accordingly, the spatial variation characteristics of oceanic anomaly fields can be depicted by...     

Morphological evolution of a large sand bar in the Qiantang River Estuary of China since the 1960s

A large sand bar develops in the inner Qiantang River Estuary, China. It is a unique sedimentary system,elongating landwards by about 130 km. Based on long-term series of bathymetric data in each April, July, and November since the 1960 s, this study investigated the morphological behavior of this bar under natural conditions and the influence of a large-scale river narrowing project(LRNP) implemented in the last decades. The results show that three timescales, namely the seasonal, interannual a...     

Impact of Wind on Tide-Induced Advective Salt Transport in A Well-Mixed Estuary

The tide-induced net advective salt flux in well-mixed estuaries consists of five terms according to the method from Kjerfve.The term resulted from the vertical variation in salinity can be negligible in well-mixed estuaries with four tide-induced salt flux terms,known as F1?F4.To explore the effects of wind on these salt fluxes,the current-salinity analytical model combined with the perturbation analysis is extended by including wind.Analytical expressions for the four salt fluxes are derived separately in the present model.Under the assumption that only the M₂ tidal component is accounted for and the salt flux generated by diffusion is not studied,the tide-induced net advective salt flux Q_sx is in the seaward direction without the wind effect.By applying the Western Scheldt estuary case,the wind influence on the tidal advection salt flux(TASF)distribution in the F4 term was investigated.The phase difference between zero-order velocity and first-order salinity(Δφ)at the surface layer of the estuary is larger than 90°and smaller than 90°at the bottom layer,which leads to landward TASF in the surface layer and seaward TASF in the bottom layer.The distribution ofΔφis not uniform in the horizontal direction with wind included,which differs from the result without wind.In the case of seaward wind with the speed of 18 m/s,the decrease in the zeroth-order velocity phase(φu)at the surface layer is larger than that of the first-order salinity phase(φs)downstream,which leads to an abnormal seaward TASF in this region.Owing to the surface stress caused by wind,the Stokes compensation flow in the middle and lower reaches increases/decreases with the increase of the landward/seaward wind,while the upstream situation is opposite.Thus,the first-order velocity in the middle and lower reaches increases/decreases with the increase of the landward/seaward wind,while the upstream situation is also opposite.The first-order salinity also increases/decreases with the increase of landward/seaward wind,while the upstream salinity tends to zero.Therefore,the tide-induced net advective salt flux Q_sx increases/decreases with the increase of the landward/seaward wind,which is contrary to the usual recognition.     

浮天无涯风生水起——中国古代文学家笔下的海洋文化

在全世界范围内,哪里有海洋,哪里便有海洋景观;哪里有人类活动,哪里就有海洋文化海洋文化绝不仅仅是西方人的专利,也绝不是黑格尔所说的"中国没有海洋文化"。我们无须说     

中国游艇产业发展商机无限

一、国内外游艇产业发展概况游艇起源于17世纪中叶。当时英皇查尔斯二世登基时,荷兰送给英皇第一艘做工精细的皇家狩猎渔船,这是历史上第一艘游艇。到了18世纪,游艇逐步发展并成为欧洲海洋国家的贵族、富豪夸耀自我,显示地位的一种象征。19世纪以后,螺旋桨、蒸汽机、小功率的马达、自动导航驾驶仪器被先后运用在游艇上。直到20世纪中叶,西方发达国家在第三产业中衍生出游艇俱乐部,在解决了游艇的停泊难题后,使游艇得到了蓬勃的发展。游艇在国际上普遍用于私人消费,与巨大的海船相比,游艇虽然很小,但发展却很快,有巨大的市场。     

Environmental drivers of phytoplankton crops and taxonomic composition in northeastern Antarctic Peninsula adjacent sea area

The ecosystem of the sea region adjacent to the Antarctic Peninsula is undergoing remarkable physical and biological changes, in the context of global warming. However, understanding of the dynamics of phytoplankton taxonomic composition in this marginal ice zone remains unclear. In this study, seawater samples collected from 36 stations in the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula were analyzed for nutrients and phytoplankton pigments.Combining with CHEMTAX analysis, remote sensing data, and physico...     

Benthic microbial biogeography along the continental shelf shaped by substrates from the Changjiang River plume

Coastal zones are active reactors of continental material including that transported by rivers via a series of microbiota-mediated reactions. Nevertheless, current knowledge of the ecology and functioning of the microbiota in coastal areas affected by large riverine inputs remains insufficient on a global scale. Here, an investigation on sediment microbial composition, including taxonomy and metabolic network, as well as their relationship with major benthic reaction substrates, namely carbon, n...