• Title/Summary/Keyword: Marine environmental monitoring

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Shipping and Marine Meteorological Monitoring System for Safety Research (선박 안전을 위한 해양 기상 모니터링시스템 연구)

  • Ko, Young-Kyu;Lim, Sung-Hun;Park, Jin-Soo;Kim, Sung-Jun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2014.06a
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    • pp.81-83
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    • 2014
  • In recent years, owing to the irregular weather changes in the sailing vessels are needed for marine meteorological environmental counter measures. Marine meteorological monitoring system, information about these marine weather environments in real time around the coast by collecting a provides real time shipping and marine transportation safety is a system for. .. Long marine facilities marine observation sensors cover the routes developed by installing marine meteorological monitoring system, build management, and vessel safety is giving much help to navigate. The further development of the marine meteorological monitoring system analyzes the situation both at home and abroad, in order to study the safety of the vessel in navigable and marine accidents because the prevention and optimal marine meteorological monitoring system regarding the future development plan for discussion.

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Monitoring System of Coastal Environment Changes due to the Construction on the Sea (해상공사로 인한 연안환경 모니터링시스템)

  • Jung, Tae-Sung;Kim, Sung-Gon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.53-59
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    • 2005
  • An integrated real-time monitoring software for coastal environment has been developed by using GUI. The system consists of modeling module, real-time monitoring module, and post-processing module of the modeling and monitoring results. The system was applied to a port construction site. The main purpose for the system is to setup the information system that user can obtain the environmental information easily and quickly. The system can be used to monitor environmental changes due to construction activities in coastal waters and to assess environmental impacts accurately in real-time. In conclusion, the system will be a good tool for finding out countermeasures to lessen water pollution and clean seawater.

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A Study on the Environmental Impact of Offshore Wind Farms Through Monitoring Case in Overseas Country (W국외 모니터링 사례를 통한 해상풍력발전의 환경적 영향 고찰)

  • Maeng, Jun-Ho;Cho, Beom-Jun;Lim, O-Joung;Seo, Jane
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.276-289
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    • 2013
  • In developing offshore wind farms, many environmental issues arise because of the concentration on supply demand and economic logic. Accordingly, community conflict is induced. Especially, recent studies regarding the capacity and location of offshore wind development have been conducted considering wind states and ocean conditions, etc. of coastal seas in Republic of Korea. Nevertheless, studies on the impact of marine environments and ecosystems are very limited so far. Environmental monitoring that follows development projects has been actively done in the offshore wind farms in many developed European countries. In contrast, there is no domestic monitoring data regarding environmental impacts caused by installing and operating offshore wind power. Therefore, the environmental impacts under construction and operation phases as well as the guidelines in the stage of environmental impact assessment suited for domestic coastal seas are well presented in this study by analyzing monitoring cases and references of overseas offshore wind farm. For this reason, this research is ultimately aimed at minimizing the environmental impact in offshore wind farm development and thus simplify administrative procedures in Korea.

Application of Enclosed Experimental Ecosystem to the Study on Marine Ecosystem (해양생태계 연구를 위한 폐쇄생태계의 활용)

  • 김웅서
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.183-194
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    • 2001
  • As researchers can modify environmental factors to fit the purpose of an experiment in monitoring marine ecosystem using enclosed experimental ecosystems, which is a strong advantage of them, mid-sized enclosed experimental ecosystems (mesocosm) are widely used in the world in basic ecology such as trophodynamic study and applied ecology such as the toxicity test of various chemicals and monitoring of ecosystem changes against marine pollution. Application of the mesocosm in the field has a merit to get more reliable result than that from the experiment in the laboratory. However, the result from the mesocosm study in marine ecosystem is very limited in Korea. Mesocosms which had been used in the marine ecological studies in both foreign countries and Korea were summarized, and application of them to the future study in various research field was suggested in this review paper.

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Improvements of Post-Project Environmental Management for the System of the Sea Area Utilization Consultation (해역이용협의제도의 사후환경관리 개선방안)

  • Kim, Gui-Young;Lee, Dae-In;Eom, Ki-Hyuk;Jeon, Kyeong-Am;Kang, Sung-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.121-129
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    • 2013
  • This study investigated the status and problems of the post-project environmental management for development projects and suggested improvements of the system to achieve effectiveness for the system of the sea area utilization consultation. The post-project environmental management has had several problems such as the neglect of implementations and checks for the consultation items, the lack of actions and notifications of results, the absence of awareness and expertise of the post-project environmental management. In addition, although it is very important to verify results of actual change and modelling of marine environment before and after the projects, the marine environmental monitoring and assessment have been perfunctorily carried out. Thus, for the improvements of the post-project environmental management to the system of the sea area utilization consultation, it is extremely necessary for related stakeholders to raise awareness of the post management and implement it faithfully, and establish the post management system for conflict resolution and enforce sanctions and accountability against executory items. Furthermore, it should establish systematic monitoring system of marine environmental impact survey.

Monitoring and Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Microalgae (유전자변형 미세조류의 생태 유출 모니터링 및 위해성평가 연구)

  • Cho, Kichul;Jeon, Hancheol;Hwang, Hyun-Ju;Hong, Ji Won;Lee, Dae-Sung;Han, Jong Won
    • Journal of Marine Bioscience and Biotechnology
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.52-61
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    • 2019
  • Over the past few decades, microalgae-based biotechnology conjugated with innovative CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genetic engineering has been attracted much attention for the cost-effective and eco-friendly value-added compounds production. However, the discharge of reproducible living modified organism (LMO) into environmental condition potentially causes serious problem in aquatic environment, and thus it is essential to assess potential environmental risk for human health. Accordingly, in this study, we monitored discharged genetically modified microalgae (GMM) near the research complex which is located in Daejeon, South Korea. After testing samples obtained from 6 points of near streams, several green-colored microalgal colonies were detected under hygromicin-containing agar plate. By identification of selection marker genes, the GMM was not detected from all the samples. For the lab-scale environmental risk assessment of GMM, acute toxicity test using rotifer Brachionus calcyflorus was performed by feeding GMM. After feeding, there was no significant difference in mortality between WT and transformant Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. According to further analysis of horizontal transfer of green fluorescence protein (GFP)-coding gene after 24 h of incubation in synthetic freshwater, we concluded that the GFP-expressed gene not transferred into predator. However, further risk assessments and construction of standard methods including prolonged toxicity test are required for the accurate ecological risk assessment.

The Status of Seabirds in Korea and Environmental Monitoring Methods using Seabirds

  • Kim, Mi-Ran;Lee, Won-Choel;Zubrzycki, Igor Z.
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.113-125
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    • 2011
  • Seabirds have adapted to life in marine environments. More than 25% of the bird species observed in South Korea are seabirds, using the coast area of Korean peninsula as a stop-over and wintering, and breeding site. The aims of this review are to provide information about migratory and resident Korean seabirds and to discuss the methods that are currently employed to monitor the marine environment. In Korea, it has been reported that more than 400,000 individuals of seabirds breed on Nando Islet, Chilbaldo Islet, Guguldo Islet, Sasudo Islet, Hongdo Islet and Dokdo Islet. In 2010, approximately 160,000 seabirds also visited South Korea during the winter. Two of the main treats were introduced wildlife and habitat destruction by humans. Seabirds are monitored mainly at the population and individual levels. The assessment of population sizes and biomagnifications of pollutants are performed preferably at the community and population levels. Behaviour, growth, morphological characteristics, and breeding success is analyzed at the individual level and employed to gauge the health of the marine environment. In addition, we could suggest that molecular technique of seabirds successfully adopted to investigate the effects of pollutants and toxins in the marine environment.

An Overview of Remote Sensing of Chlorophyll Fluorescence

  • Xing, Xiao-Gang;Zhao, Dong-Zhi;Liu, Yu-Guang;Yang, Jian-Hong;Xiu, Peng;Wang, Lin
    • Ocean Science Journal
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.49-59
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    • 2007
  • Besides empirical algorithms with the blue-green ratio, the algorithms based on fluorescence are also important and valid methods for retrieving chlorophyll-a concentration in the ocean waters, especially for Case II waters and the sea with algal blooming. This study reviews the history of initial cognitions, investigations and detailed approaches towards chlorophyll fluorescence, and then introduces the biological mechanism of fluorescence remote sensing and main spectral characteristics such as the positive correlation between fluorescence and chlorophyll concentration, the red shift phenomena. Meanwhile, there exist many influence factors that increase complexity of fluorescence remote sensing, such as fluorescence quantum yield, physiological status of various algae, substances with related optical property in the ocean, atmospheric absorption etc. Based on these cognitions, scientists have found two ways to calculate the amount of fluorescence detected by ocean color sensors: fluorescence line height and reflectance ratio. These two ways are currently the foundation for retrieval of chlorophyll-a concentration in the ocean. As the in-situ measurements and synchronous satellite data are continuously being accumulated, the fluorescence remote sensing of chlorophyll-a concentration in Case II waters should be recognized more thoroughly and new algorithms could be expected.