Storm surge current-time estimations are strongly influenced by recent water-level conditions, while the temporal dependence among samples from the same typhoon event can complicate the assessment of model generalization to unseen events. This study evaluated storm surge estimation at the Lianyungang tide gauge using 2168 samples from 28 typhoon events during 2002–2024. A 41-feature extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) model in...

Offshore drilling operations face the critical challenge of maintaining precise weight-on-bit (WOB) control during automatic drilling feed while subjected to vessel heave disturbances. This study investigates an integrated closed-circuit hydraulic cylinder lifting system that combines full-stroke drill string compensation with potential energy recovery capabilities, addressing the control coupling problem inherent in tradition...

The rice-field eel (Monopterus albus) is an important economic aquaculture species in China. Aeromonas veronii is one of the most common pathogens, which has a high infection and mortality rate in rice-field eel culture. In this study, a strain of A. veronii (AV-MA), isolated from the intestine of a diseased rice-field eel, was labelled with green fluorescent protein (GFP) using mini-Tn7-based systems. The growth curve and vir...

To achieve precise trajectory tracking for surface vessels subject to unknown dynamics, strict physical limitations, and external disturbances, this paper proposes an Adaptive Fixed-Time Control Framework that ensures a deterministic response under full constraints. First, navigation safety is guaranteed by employing a Barrier Lyapunov Function (BLF) to strictly confine vessel position states, enabling constrained position tra...

Marine oil spills pose a persistent threat to marine ecosystems and coastal economies, and their rapid and unpredictable spread requires timely and reliable monitoring. In X-band marine radar images, oil slicks usually appear as low-contrast dark targets embedded in heterogeneous sea clutter, making accurate segmentation particularly challenging. To address this problem, this study proposes a training-free two-stage oil slick...

Wing–diesel hybrid ships are a practical approach to sustainable maritime transport that harnesses wind energy to supplement diesel propulsion and reduce carbon emissions. The core optimization problem addressed in this study is the global energy efficiency optimization of path planning and propulsion system cooperative control for wing–diesel hybrid ships under two typical sail operation statuses (sail-deployed and sail-stowe...

Background: Aquaculture, a vital component of global food security, faces sustainability challenges due to intensive farming practices, including water pollution, disease outbreaks, and antibiotic overuse. Probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics have emerged as eco-friendly alternatives to antibiotics. However, research results remain heterogeneous across aquatic species and intervention strategies. Methods: Following PRISMA 20...

Shallow subsurface structure detection in coastal zones serves as a critical foundation for resource development and engineering construction. However, conventional geophysical methods exhibit significant limitations in land–sea transition zones, where pronounced “boundary effects” create substantial “exploration gaps” due to difficulties in merging terrestrial and marine datasets. To achieve truly seamless subsurface imaging...

Underwater vehicles performing sampling tasks often encounter significant buoyancy variations due to payload adjustments and environmental changes, which severely challenge the stability and accuracy of controllers. To address this issue, this paper proposes a hybrid control framework that integrates Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) with adaptive PID tuning. The framework employs PPO to dynamically adjust PID parameters onli...

With the rapid development and widespread application of multibeam echo-sounding systems, large-scale and high-resolution seafloor topography can be efficiently acquired, enabling precise mapping of seabed terrain. However, due to complex oceanographic conditions, instrumental noise, and acoustic interferences, the acquired multibeam data often contain outliers that deviate from the true seafloor surface. These outliers can di...

The growth of aquaculture poses significant challenges for disease management, impacting economic sustainability and global food security. Traditional diagnostics are slow and require expertise, while current deep learning models, including CNNs and Transformers, face a trade-off between capturing global symptom context and maintaining computational efficiency. This paper introduces FishMambaNet, a novel framework that integra...

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Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) are an important species in the Arctic ecosystem, but their conservation is challenged by environmental noise from shipping and climate change. Effective monitoring of Bowhead whale vocalizations is essential for their conservation, yet traditional acoustic methods face limitations in detecting weak and non-stationary signals amidst complex background noise. In this study, we propose a novel...

As a zero-carbon energy carrier, hydrogen is playing an increasingly vital role in the decarbonization of maritime transportation. The hydrogen pressure reducing valve (PRV) is a core component of ship-borne hydrogen storage systems, directly influencing the safety, efficiency, and reliability of hydrogen-powered vessels. However, the marine environment—characterized by persistent vibrations, salt spray corrosion, and temperat...

To address the current lack of specialized equipment for offshore wind platform installation and the unresolved challenges in deploying large offshore converter stations, this paper proposes a novel T–U-shaped barge for large offshore wind structures. First, a hydrodynamic model of the T–U-shaped barge is constructed and analyzed in ANSYS-AQWA. The influence of resonance occurring in the gap at the U-shaped stern on the freque...

With the development of offshore wind power progressing towards larger-scale and deeper-water projects, the float-over installation of offshore converter stations has become a mainstream solution due to its high carrying capacity, efficiency and cost-effectiveness. This study addresses the dynamic positioning (DP) challenges during this operation, where traditional PID controllers often struggle with performance under complex...

In ocean engineering, the demand for fiber-optic vector hydrophones (FOVHs) is increasing. The performance of a FOVH depends on phase consistency between its pressure and acceleration channels, which should match the acoustic field’s properties. Phase polarity, which refers to the alignment of the output signal with the acoustic field direction, is critical. Incorrect phase polarity during sensor assembly can disrupt phase con...

We propose a control method that integrates adaptive fuzzy sliding-mode control (AF-SMC) with a fixed-time disturbance observer (FTDO) to address modeling errors, external disturbances, and input saturation in ship path tracking. The designed adaptive fuzzy system dynamically adjusts the SMC gain to enhance adaptability to parameter variations and modeling errors. Furthermore, the proposed method enables rapid estimation of th...

In response to the problem of decreased collaborative control performance in underwater unmanned vehicles (UUVs) with communication packet loss, a GRU-KF method for multi-UUV control that integrates a gated recurrent unit (GRU) and a Kalman filter (KF) is proposed. First, a UUV feedback linearization model and a current model are established, and a multi-UUV controller-based leader–follower method is designed, using a neural n...

This study presents a comprehensive assessment of long-term nutrient dynamics in the northern South China Sea (NSCS), a region that hosts the world’s largest marine ranching cluster and serves as a cornerstone of China’s “Blue Granary” initiative. By integrating multi-sensor satellite remote sensing data (Landsat and Sentinel-2, 2002–2024) with in situ observations, we developed robust retrieval algorithms for total nitrogen (...

Healthy Yellow River carp (Cyprinus carpio haematopterus) reared at a water temperature of 23 ± 0.6 °C were orally administered albendazole (ABZ) at a dose of 12 mg/kg body weight (BW) once daily for seven consecutive days. At predetermined time points after the final administration, five fish were randomly selected for sampling. Plasma, skin-on-muscle, liver, and kidney tissues were collected, and the concentrations of ABZ an...

This study investigates the wave-induced vertical mixing mechanism and systematically compares the application of two non-breaking wave parameterization schemes (Bv and Pw) in oceanic numerical simulations of the South China Sea, according to two key physical variables: sea surface temperature (SST) and the vertical mixing coefficient. The goal is to explore the effects of different parameterization methods on the upper-ocean...

The wave spectrum, as a key statistical feature describing wave energy distribution, is crucial for understanding wave propagation mechanisms and supporting ocean engineering applications. This study, based on ERA5 reanalysis spectrum data, proposes a model combining CNN and xLSTM for rapid gridded wave spectrum prediction over the Bohai and Yellow Seas domain. It uses 2D gridded spectrum data rather than a spectrum at specifi...

During high-speed navigation, boat propellers often become partially exposed due to elevated sailing speeds. This condition results in a unique operational scenario where propellers are only partially submerged. Conducting computational studies on the excitation of propellers under such circumstances is essential for optimizing the dynamic performance of the shafting system. A theoretical calculation method for propeller perfo...

The inherent randomness and intermittency of offshore renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, pose significant challenges to the stable and secure operation of the power grid. These fluctuations directly affect the performance of grid-connected systems, particularly in terms of harmonic distortion and load response. This paper addresses these challenges by proposing a novel harmonic control strategy and load re...