This article presents a US perspective on the influence of government policies on the nature and development of advanced marine electronic instrumentation (MEI) technologies in Europe. US firms traditionally have enjoyed a strong international competitive advantage in the MEI field, but European...

This article reports some results of a study to enhance the effectiveness of a prospective protocol on land-based marine pollution (LBMP) in the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR), which is under negotiation. We argue that the environmental, economic, and institutional diversity of the region as a...

The potential emergence of an ocean mining industry to exploit seafloor massive sulfides could present opportunities for oceanographic science to facilitate seafloor mineral development in ways that lessen environmental harms.