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• US National Estuarine Research Reserve System
  ...more than one million acres (4,000 km²) of estuarine land, wetlands, and water. ...acts of land use and population growth; habitat loss and alteration; water quality degradation; and changes in biological communities.
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• US Army Corps of Engineers’ Coastal Programs
  ...of the [https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-clean-water-act Clean Water Act] in 1972 vastly increased the USACE’s authority over dredging and fil ...rces. In 1990, environmental protection became one of the primary goals of water resources projects. In more recent years, small ecosystem restoration proje
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• Tampa Bay Estuary Program
  Tampa Bay is Florida’s largest open-water estuary, spanning 400 square miles, with a drainage area nearly six times t ...urban development caused a significant deterioration in the bay’s water quality and habitat, and natural resources. Urban development, dredging, canals, a
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• Marine Plankton
  ...ving organisms that spend at least a part of their life cycle suspended in water. The term [[plankton]] is actually a Greek word, meaning ''that which is ma ...s with only little ability to control their fine-scale distribution in the water column. '''Holoplankton''' refers to those organisms that spend their entir
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• Mediterranean seagrass ecosystem
  ...e amount of sediment suspended in the water, helping to maintain the clear water conditions P. oceanica requires for growth. ...cleaner. ''P. oceanica'' meadows are excellent indicators of environmental quality as they can only grow in clean unpolluted waters. Moreover, their rhizomes
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• Nutrient loading of coastal waters
  ...ecades. The quality of marine waters is monitored continuously by means of water samples [[In situ monitoring of eutrophication|(in-situ data)]] and [[Remot ...ecasting future impacts of different management strategies on marine water quality. The role of eutrophication models is schematically depicted in Fig. 1.
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• Public participation in coastal management in Honduras
  ...,327 approximately and a total area of 112,090 km² from which 200 km² is water. ...ng possibilities? Most public forums need good facilitation to ensure high quality dialogue.
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• FerryBox - Continuous and automatic water quality observations along transects
  ...onment in the coastal areas and shelf seas of Europe with an adequate data quality is a serious hindrance to an understanding of marine systems. Currently, op ...ve and reliable possibility to obtain regular observations on near surface water parameters. Applying such a FerryBox system on ferry boats or ships-of-oppo
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• Using model simulations to support monitoring - Implementation & Results
  ===Fresh water signals at Helgoland=== ...ater parcels that were seen by both of the two systems and to estimate the water parcels’ travel times between the two measurements. Coloured dots represe
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• Dynamics and structure of the water and matter ex-change between the Wadden Sea and the German Bight
  ...g physical impact from tidal currents and waves and significant changes in water temperature, salinity, and suspended matter concentration, to name a few pa ...ideal observational tool would be a continuous monitoring of the exchanged water bodies including the dissolved and suspended matter and the bedload transpo
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• Water quality services GMES - MarCoast in Germany
  ...ts of biological and morphological parameters in order to assess the water quality from an ecological point of view. The BLMP is currently being extended in t ...em, WAQSS. Products of derived satellite data are provided to assess water quality in coastal areas. Examples of maps of a) suspended matter concentration, b)
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• Suspended particulate matter distribution in the North Sea
  ...and estuaries. Turbidity is caused by all kinds of small particles in the water, some of mineralic composition, such as clay minerals, and others of organi ...f the ecological conditions of the North Sea. The SPM concentration in the water column regulates the penetration depth of light and, therefore, it is an im
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• Water quality services GMES - MarCoast
  #REDIRECT [[Water quality services GMES - MarCoast in Germany]]
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• Organochlorine compounds
  ...nes which are [[mutagenetic]] or acutely toxic.<ref>OSPAR Commission 2000. Quality Status Report 2000, OSPAR Commission, London.</ref> ...ine compounds are lipophylic, meaning they are more soluble in fat than in water. This gives them a high tenancy to accumulate in the [[food chain]] ([[biom
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• DDT
  ...hlorine pesticides enter the marine environment mainly through inputs from water and air, as a result of their use in agriculture. Although the use of DDT i ...E ratio, the contamination must be a recent one<ref>OSPAR Commission 2000. Quality Status Report 2000, OSPAR Commission, London</ref>.
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• Mercury
  [[Effects of heavy metals on the sperm quality and the larvae survival of sea urchins]]<P> [[List of priority substances|Included in the water framework list of priority substances]]
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• Cadmium
  [[Effects of heavy metals on the sperm quality and the larvae survival of sea urchins]]<P> [[List of priority substances|Included in the water framework list of priority substances]]
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• Pollution and benthic fish
  ...re, benthic fish are more often affected by diseases related to poor water quality, such as fin rot or epidermal tumors. These diseases occur much more often ...g them to need more oxygen. To extract more oxygen, they have to pump more water through their gills, causing them also to adsorb more contaminants. Unlike
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• Heavy metal content of mussels in the Western Scheldt estuary
  ...lity. The high concentrations in the Eastern Scheldt were unexpected since water pollution has been drastically reduced. Presumably metals stored in the soi
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• The distinctive features of marine biodiversity
  in water; terrestrial organisms live in air. Environmental change in the sea has a m ...astal seas a very large proportion have larvae that remain floating in the water for a period of days to months. These high dispersal capacities are often a
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