13^th Environmental Science and Pollution Control Congress

Oceanography and Marine Biology

The branch of science which deals with the study biological and the physical aspects of the Ocean are known as Oceanography. It is basically  Earth science which includes ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, and geophysical fluid dynamics; plate tectonics, waves, geology of the sea floor and also the fluxes of the of different chemical substance and physical properties in the Ocean and its nearby area. Marine biology or Oceanography basically works on issues such as environment balance, costal management, pollution, alternative energy and weather forecasting. It also involves discovering drug research resources, finding solutions to habitat destruction or developing solutions to limit invasive species. Nearly 50 years ago, less than two decades after the rise in commercial plastics production, plastics contamination in the marine environment was first reported when less than 50 million metric tons were produced annually. Global production of plastics exceeded 300 million metric tons per year in 2014. The heat content of the ocean decides the temperature of the surface of the ocean and influences the level of the ocean and streams. As ocean level ascents, flooding turns out to be more successive along the coastline. In recent decades, ocean levels of barometric carbon dioxide dissolving in water have turned out to be more acidic.

• Biological Oceanography
• Marine Pollution
• Marine Engineering and Technology
• Coastal Oceanography
• Ocean Biogeochemistry
• Physical Oceanography