Burger, Morgan
This capstone project tells the untold story of marine diamond mining, tracing its origins from the shores of Namibia to the fjords of Greenland. Despite the stark differences between these two locales, they share striking similarities in diamond potential. In Namibia, marine diamond mining flourished prior to the country's independence and the est...
Tavares-Reager, Joana Flor
The combustion of fuels in the engines of ships releases inorganic compounds and metals that can promote phytoplankton growth (e.g. N, Fe, Mn, Zn) or decrease productivity (e.g. Cu). Many ship operators comply with air quality regulations by installing scrubber systems that clean emissions going into the air, but discharge washwater containing nutr...
Hu, Zhan Zhou, Zeng Chen, Yujie Mudd, Simon Marius Möller, Iris Gong, Zheng
Lejeune, Benjamin Mouchet, Maud Aline Mehault, Sonia Kopp, Dorothée
peer reviewed / Discarding practices have become a serious source of concern for the perennation of marine resources, motivating discard bans implementation around the world. However, little is known about the fate of discards in marine environments. Discarding may provide food for various marine consumers, potentially affecting food web structure ...
Strong-Wright, Jago Taylor, John R.
It has recently been proposed that macroalgae (e.g., kelp) could be grown in the open ocean as a CO2 removal strategy. Most macroalgae naturally grow in shallow coastal waters, and their ability to grow in open ocean conditions is largely untested. Here we quantify macroalgae growth potential in the North Atlantic using an established model of Sacc...
Lawson, Troy A
The Cal Poly Pier (Pier) Master/Facility Plan (FP) document provides the vision of the future for the Pier, a marine science research facility. The Plan facilitates project development and management of the Pier while meeting university and department research goals. Specifically, the FP document establishes goals and strategies to direct long-term...
Mitchell, Emily G. Harris, Simon
The ecosystem dynamics of benthic communities depend on the relative importance of organism reproductive traits, environmental factors, inter-specific interactions, and mortality processes. The fine-scale community ecology of sessile organisms can be investigated using spatial analyses because the position of the specimens on the substrate (their s...
Parkan, Ece Nil
Thesis (M.Sc.) -- İstanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Yüksek Lisans / Tez (eng) -- İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Avrasya Yer Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Yüksek Lisans / Turkish Strait System (TSS) consists of Dardanelle Strait, Marmara Sea and Bosporus Strait is a coupled system where the fully coupled effects are significa...
Chang, Seong Bo Chen, Albert Nguyen, Emily
The name of this project is called “exPIERience” and the technological field of focus is virtual reality. We will be working on creating a virtual reality experience using the Oculus Rift for the Center of Coastal Marine Sciences (CCMS). The purpose of this system is to enable people to experience diving at the Cal Poly Pier even during nonoptimal ...
Newton, Alice Borja, Angel Solidoro, Cosimo Grégoire, Marilaure
peer reviewed