Abstract Hundreds of Oil & Gas Industry structures in the marine environment are
approaching decommissioning. In most areas decommissioning operations will need to be …

Marine environmental monitoring is undertaken to provide evidence that environmental
management targets are being met. Moreover, monitoring also provides context to marine …

Ecosystem-based management (EBM) requires more extensive information than single-
species management. Active underwater acoustic methods provide a means of collecting a …

The Pélagiques Gascogne (PELGAS) integrated survey has been developed by a
multidisciplinary team of Ifremer and La Rochelle University scientists since 2000, joined by …

Underwater communication cables transport large amounts of sensitive information between
countries. This fact converts these cables into a critical infrastructure that must be protected …

The Western Tropical South Pacific (WTSP) basin has been identified as a hotspot of
atmospheric dinitrogen fixation due to the high dissolved iron ([DFe]) concentrations (up to …

Tropical marine ecosystems are highly biodiverse and provide resources for small-scale
fisheries and tourism. However, precise information on fish spatial distribution is lacking …

Sound scattering layers (SSLs) are observed over a broad range of spatio-temporal scales
and geographical areas. SSLs represent a large biomass, likely involved in the biological …

An investigation of the vertical and horizontal distributions of micronekton, as influenced by
mesoscale eddies, the Madagascar shelf and shallow seamounts, was undertaken using …

Matecho is an automated processing method to extract information and perform echo-
integration and fish shoal extraction from various scientific echo-sounder sources providing …