Marine Environmental Quality - Healthy Coastal Waters

Understanding marine pollution and the contamination of coastal environments requires knowledge from a variety of scientific fields. Marine Environmental Quality promotes a multidisciplinary approach to investigations, drawing on not only natural sciences, but also applied mathematics and social sciences.
 
The investigations in this book focus on both organic and inorganic pollutants, firstly in a study conducted in the city of La Rochelle, on the North Atlantic French coast, then expanding the areas under examination to regions of English and Portuguese waters and, lastly, to the Mediterranean Sea. The improvement such research can bring to biomarkers, models and experiments enables equal progress in the quality of seawater in ports and protected areas of coastal regions.
 
The eight chapters of Marine Environmental Quality present many aspects of this research, including experiments with floating barriers, water governance in various areas, sampling sites and sentinel species that act as biomarkers in harbors. Also covered are environmental commitments, both international and local, the risk that marine contamination poses to human health, experimental designs for interactions with microplastics and a study biomonitoring the juveniles of sentinel species. Such results will bring many benefits, to human health, to economic inclusion and to regional development.

Sommario

Preface xi
Frédéric MUTTIN and Hélène THOMAS
 
Chapter 1. Oil Spill Boom Strategy for Local Authorities Facing Coastal and Harbor Pollutions: A Survey of the European Research Project ISDAMP+ 1
Frédéric MUTTIN and Rose CAMPBELL
 
1.1. Introduction 1
 
1.1.1. Challenge 2
 
1.1.2. Problem 2
 
1.1.3. Project partners 3
 
1.2. Coastal hydrodynamic model 4
 
1.3. Boom structural analysis model 5
 
1.4. Hydrodynamic and structural models coupling 6
 
1.5. Full-scale experiments 7
 
1.5.1. Falmouth 8
 
1.5.2. Lisbon 10
 
1.5.3. Rochefort 12
 
1.5.4. La Rochelle Chef de Baie 13
 
1.6. Conclusion 16
 
1.7. Acknowledgments 17
 
1.8. References 17
 
Chapter 2. Governance and Public Policies of Coastal Water Quality in the Pertuis Charentais 21
lice MAZEAUD, François BÉNITEZ, Anaïs RIDEL, Arno BRINGER, Christine PLUMEJEAUD, Pascal BRUNELLO, Adélaïde LEREBOURS, Yann RABUTEAU and Hélène THOMAS
 
2.1. Fragmented management of coastal waters 23
 
2.1.1. The coastline: in-between integrated water management policies 24
 
2.1.2. Coastal waters: controlled and regulated according to their uses 27
 
2.2. The difficulty of publicizing coastal water quality 30
 
2.2.1. The "controlled publicity" of coastal water quality and the consequences on shellfish production in the Pertuis Charentais 31
 
2.2.2. The quality assessment of variable-geometry coastal waters 34
 
2.3. The Marine Protected Area: going towards a more coherent management of the "Sea-Land" interface? 37
 
2.4. Conclusion 38
 
2.5. References 39
 
Chapter 3. Comparative Biomarkers Study in Two Scallop Organs to Establish Guidelines for Evaluating French Atlantic Coastline Water Quality 41
Marine Paomia BREITWIESER, Marine BARBARIN, Valérie HUET, Emmanuel DUBILLOT, Marianne GRABER and Hélène THOMAS
 
3.1. Introduction 41
 
3.2. Materials and methods 42
 
3.2.1. Study sites and sampling collection 42
 
3.2.2. Biochemical analysis 44
 
3.2.3. Data treatments 45
 
3.3. Results 45
 
3.3.1. Superoxide dismutase 47
 
3.3.2. Glutathione S-transferase 47
 
3.3.3. Malonyldialdehyde 47
 
3.3.4. Laccase 48
 
3.4. Discussion 48
 
3.5. Conclusion 50
 
3.6. Funding and acknowledgments 50
 
3.7. References 51
 
Chapter 4. Tracer Study and Mimachlamys varia Bivalve Tools, a Multidisciplinary Guideline to Assess Environmental Quality in the La Rochelle Harbor Over Three Years 55
Marine Paomia BREITWIESER, Benoit SIMON-BOUHET, Jean-Rémy HUGUET, Valérie HUET, Carine CHURLAUD, Marine BARBARIN, Angélique FONTANAUD and Hélène THOMAS
 
4.1. Introduction 55
 
4.2. Materials and methods 58
 
4.2.1. Field collection and tissue sampling 58
 
4.2.2. Tracer study of hydrodynamic processes in the harbor area 59
 
4.2.3. Trace elements and biomarkers of effect analyses 60
 
4.2.4. Biochemical biomarkers of exposure analysis 61
 
4.2.5. Data analysis 62
 
4.3. Results 63
 
4.3.1. Trace elements and biomarkers of effect analyses 63
 
4.3.2. Biochemical biomarkers of exposure analysis 67
 
4.3.3. Relationship between biomarkers of exposure (e.g. SOD, GST, laccase, MDA) and effect (e.g. heavy metals) 71
 
4.4. Discussion 73
 
4.4.1. Bioaccumulation 73
 
4.4.2. Health 77
 
4.4.3. Tracer study in the bay of La Rochelle 79
 
4.5. Conclusion 83
 
4.6. Funding and acknowledgments 84
 
4.7. References 84
 
Chapter 5. ISDAMP Project Dissemination and Cont

Info autore

Frederic Muttin is a Research Professor in Applied Mathematics and Marine Sciences at the EIGSI engineering school in La Rochelle, France. He has led national and international research projects on marine pollution. His research, spanning over thirty years, focuses on fluid- solid interaction and mechanics.

Helene Thomas is Associate Professor in Ecotoxicology and Marine Sciences at the LIENSs research unit at La Rochelle University, France. She led the Amare research group and directs the Master's course on Environmental Engineering and Coastal Areas. Her research focuses on bivalve species and coastal environments.

Riassunto

Understanding marine pollution and the contamination of coastal environments requires knowledge from a variety of scientific fields. Marine Environmental Quality promotes a multidisciplinary approach to investigations, drawing on not only natural sciences, but also applied mathematics and social sciences.

The investigations in this book focus on both organic and inorganic pollutants, firstly in a study conducted in the city of La Rochelle, on the North Atlantic French coast, then expanding the areas under examination to regions of English and Portuguese waters and, lastly, to the Mediterranean Sea. The improvement such research can bring to biomarkers, models and experiments enables equal progress in the quality of seawater in ports and protected areas of coastal regions.

The eight chapters of Marine Environmental Quality present many aspects of this research, including experiments with floating barriers, water governance in various areas, sampling sites and sentinel species that act as biomarkers in harbors. Also covered are environmental commitments, both international and local, the risk that marine contamination poses to human health, experimental designs for interactions with microplastics and a study biomonitoring the juveniles of sentinel species. Such results will bring many benefits, to human health, to economic inclusion and to regional development.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Frederic Muttin, Helene Thomas
• Con la collaborazione di: Frederic Muttin (Editore), Thomas (Editore), Helene Thomas (Editore)
• Editore: Wiley & Sons
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781786307583
• ISBN: 978-1-78630-758-3
• Pagine: 208
• Dimensioni: 158 mm x 242 mm x 17 mm
• Peso: 444 g
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia; Ökologie, Umweltforschung, Umweltwissenschaften, Life Sciences, Biowissenschaften, Environmental Studies, Aquatic ecology, Environmental Science, Ökologie / Süßwasser, Freshwater Ecology, Ökologie / Aquatische Lebensräume, Küstengewässer