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World Interest and Activities on Marine Litter (해양쓰레기의 전 지구적 관심과 실행)

  • Jung, Rho-Taek
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.173-180
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    • 2009
  • After the UN General Assembly on 2006, Interest on the marine litter has rapidly increased internationally. The UN sub-organizations, UNEP/Regional Seas, FAO(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and OC(Ocean Conservancy) as a one of world NGO had been tackled to collect information and prepared world reports related on marine litter, recently, those are published. Through the 10years experience of Korea's policy on marine litter since 1999, it is re-evaluated as a roll model internationally. In this paper, brief introduction of structure and function of Korea's authorities which are responsible for or are involved in the marine litter issue as well as the National Marine Litter Management Basic Plan which is established in 2008, has been provided. This paper also included the structure and roll of the marine litter initiative center in the plan. Change of the paradigm of action plan on marine litter in Korea already had been started.

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Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change on Marine Ecosystem in the South Sea of Korea II (기후변화가 남해(북부 동중국해 포함) 해양생태계에 미치는 영향 평가 시범 연구 II)

  • Ju, Se-Jong;Kim, Se-Joo
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.123-125
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    • 2013
  • According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ocean warming and acidification are accelerating as a result of the continuous increase in atmospheric $CO_2$. This may affect the function and structure of marine ecosystems. Recently, changes in marine environments/ecosystems have been observed (increase in SST, decrease in the pH of seawater, northward expansion of subtropical species, etc.) in Korean waters. However, we still don't understand well how climate change affects these changes and what can be expected in the future. In order to answer these questions with regard to Korean waters, the project named 'Assessment of the impact of climate change on marine ecosystems in the South Sea of Korea' has been supported for 5 years by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and is scheduled to end in 2013. This project should provide valuable information on the current status of marine environments/ecosystems in the South Sea of Korea and help establish the methodology and observation/prediction systems to better understand and predict the impact of climate/marine environment changes on the structure and function of marine ecosystems. This special issue contains 5 research and a review articles that highlight the studies carried out during 2012-2013 through this project.

Motivation of the Participants Involved in Marine Sports Emotional Impact of Exercise (해양스포츠 참가자의 참여동기가 운동정서에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, So-Yoon;Shin, Koun-Soo;Kim, Yong-Jae;Lee, Dong-Woo
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.677-685
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    • 2014
  • Motivation of participants in this study were marine sports movement through the emotional impact of these participants can continue to take advantage of marine sports, and at the same time looking for ways to stabilize participants' emotions and mental exercise to find ways to enable identifying emotions purpose is to provide basic information. In order to achieve these objectives May to October 2013 review of research results obtained are as follows. First, marine sports participation motivation of the participants involved in the relationship between emotion and motivation exercise fun, and when the external, physica l health, social, physical condition, emotional fulfillment and exercise all the sub-factors and the significant positive correlation with that of thes howed, nomotivation and vitality are significant negative relationship with, respectively. Second, the participant's participation in marine sports exercise emotional impact on motivation Motivation is a fun look at the impact on the results of this condition, fulfillment, health and physical fitness showed the vitality of the social, achievement, condition, pleasure, respectively. And when the external purification, social, achievement, health and physical fitness showed as, fulfilling the condition, social, health and physical fitness, a sense of accomplishment as appeared, pride of accomplishment, social, physical condition, pleasure, showing off the external influence.

A Review on Recent Development and Application of Marine Controlled-Source Electromagnetics (Marine CSEM의 최근 기술 개발 및 적용 사례)

  • Song, Yoon-Ho;Kim, Hee-Joon;Seol, Soon-Jee
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.12a
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    • pp.87-100
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    • 2007
  • Marine controlled source electromagnetics (CSEM) or sea bed logging (SBL) is an emerging technology which can provide quantitative information on hydrocarbon reservoir embedded in marine sediment. Electromagnetic responses to the resistive formation saturated with a certain amount of hydrocarbon can be characterized by less attenuated profile otherwise exponentially attenuated fields in conductive sea water or through sediments, and thus can be regarded as a direct indicator of hydrocarbon. In this paper, we introduce the technology of marine CSEM in terms of its physical characteristics and in comparison of typical three-dimensional (3-D) seismic method. History and evolution of commercial marine CSEM are also briefly summarized. We then introduce a representative case history showing how marine CSEM works in reality. Outlook of future applications and technical advances to be made are discussed. Finally, we demonstrate a test example of 2.5-D inversion of synthetic data as the groundwork of 3-D inversion of field data that is to be the ultimate goal of technical development.

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A study of Restructuring Fisheries School Education for HRD of Fisheries Educations -With Foreign Vocational Education and Educational System of Australia and Japan etc- (수산교육의 인적자원 개발을 위한 수산고등학교 체제개편의 연구 - 호주, 일본 등 외국 교육체제와 직업교육을 통해 -)

  • Kim, Sam-Kon
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.101-109
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    • 2007
  • The school system of fisheries high school was proper to specialist objective school system in order to training for expert human resource development.Training a field of human resources development from fisheries high school is fallow; fisheries production, seamen's training, ship engine and refrigerator, marine electronic telecommunication and information, fisheries foods production and fisheries foods production and distribution, fishery fisheries self-management, marine distribution, management and conservation of marine environment, safety and marine prevention of disasters, apparatus of marine development, under water area development.A new department opening and each department was revised toward to department name and department character. The unit-lesson hour of curriculum according to specialist objective school system of fisheries and marine highschool was revised. professional subject 98 unit-lesson hour(52%), normality subject 90 unit-lesson hour(48%), and educational activity of professional subject 10unit-lesson hour, total training activity 10 unit-lesson hour. And the special objective school system need to revise curriculum of 208 total unit-lesson hour.

Potential Health Risks from Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Marine Ecosystem

  • Lee, Youn Ju;Jang, Jae-Seok;Yang, Jae-Ho
    • Journal of Marine Bioscience and Biotechnology
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.10-17
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    • 2016
  • A wide-spread contamination of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) such as dioxins, PCBs, PBDEs in the aquatic ecosystem has generated a great concern over the potential risk for these substances to impact marine biotas and food web. Since a major exposure route of these substances to the humans is through the consumption of food including fish and marine byproducts, the consumption of contaminated products has been a great public health concern. Exposure to POPs has been associated with a wide spectrum of adverse effects including reproductive, developmental, immunologic, carcinogenic, and neurotoxic effects. This review covers the background information of key POPs substances and the recent development of toxicity studies including the mode of action. Because neurotoxic effects of some POPs have been observed in humans at low concentrations, polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), a representative chemical of POPs, is focused to discuss the possible mode(s) of action for the neurotoxic effects. This review provides the updates of toxicity studies on POPs and paves ways to discuss a possible implication of contaminated marine biota over the human health among the marine biotechnology researchers.

Biodiversity and Enzyme Activity of Marine Fungi with 28 New Records from the Tropical Coastal Ecosystems in Vietnam

  • Pham, Thu Thuy;Dinh, Khuong V.;Nguyen, Van Duy
    • Mycobiology
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    • v.49 no.6
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    • pp.559-581
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    • 2021
  • The coastal marine ecosystems of Vietnam are one of the global biodiversity hotspots, but the biodiversity of marine fungi is not well known. To fill this major gap of knowledge, we assessed the genetic diversity (ITS sequence) of 75 fungal strains isolated from 11 surface coastal marine and deeper waters in Nha Trang Bay and Van Phong Bay using a culture-dependent approach and 5 OTUs (Operational Taxonomic Units) of fungi in three representative sampling sites using next-generation sequencing. The results from both approaches shared similar fungal taxonomy to the most abundant phylum (Ascomycota), genera (Candida and Aspergillus) and species (Candida blankii) but were different at less common taxa. Culturable fungal strains in this study belong to 3 phyla, 5 subdivisions, 7 classes, 12 orders, 17 families, 22 genera and at least 40 species, of which 29 species have been identified and several species are likely novel. Among identified species, 12 and 28 are new records in global and Vietnamese marine areas, respectively. The analysis of enzyme activity and the checklist of trophic mode and guild assignment provided valuable additional biological information and suggested the ecological function of planktonic fungi in the marine food web. This is the largest dataset of marine fungal biodiversity on morphology, phylogeny and enzyme activity in the tropical coastal ecosystems of Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Biogeographic aspects, ecological factors and human impact may structure mycoplankton communities in such aquatic habitats.

Optimal Monitoring Frequency Estimation Using Confidence Intervals for the Temporal Model of a Zooplankton Species Number Based on Operational Taxonomic Units at the Tongyoung Marine Science Station

  • Cho, Hong-Yeon;Kim, Sung;Lee, Youn-Ho;Jung, Gila;Kim, Choong-Gon;Jeong, Dageum;Lee, Yucheol;Kang, Mee-Hye;Kim, Hana;Choi, Hae-Young;Oh, Jina;Myong, Jung-Goo;Choi, Hee-Jung
    • Ocean and Polar Research
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.13-21
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    • 2017
  • Temporal changes in the number of zooplankton species are important information for understanding basic characteristics and species diversity in marine ecosystems. The aim of the present study was to estimate the optimal monitoring frequency (OMF) to guarantee and predict the minimum number of species occurrences for studies concerning marine ecosystems. The OMF is estimated using the temporal number of zooplankton species through bi-weekly monitoring of zooplankton species data according to operational taxonomic units in the Tongyoung coastal sea. The optimal model comprises two terms, a constant (optimal mean) and a cosine function with a one-year period. The confidence interval (CI) range of the model with monitoring frequency was estimated using a bootstrap method. The CI range was used as a reference to estimate the optimal monitoring frequency. In general, the minimum monitoring frequency (numbers per year) directly depends on the target (acceptable) estimation error. When the acceptable error (range of the CI) increases, the monitoring frequency decreases because the large acceptable error signals a rough estimation. If the acceptable error (unit: number value) of the number of the zooplankton species is set to 3, the minimum monitoring frequency (times per year) is 24. The residual distribution of the model followed a normal distribution. This model can be applied for the estimation of the minimal monitoring frequency that satisfies the target error bounds, as this model provides an estimation of the error of the zooplankton species numbers with monitoring frequencies.

Maritime Navigation to Aid Costal Sailing of Small-Size Ship (소형선의 연안항해를 지원하는 해상내비게이션)

  • Yun, Jae-jun;Mun, Jung-hwan;Chong, Jong-teak;Kim, Geun-ung;Choi, Jo-cheon
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.371-378
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    • 2016
  • We have studied on the maritime navigation with functions of navigation route search and maritime safety information for small-size fishery ships, fishing boats, yachts, and boats in coastal seas. We have designed a smart phone application which is more exact information on marine obstacles of islands, aquafarms, and rocks by using land navigation techniques. Our navigation system is relatively easy to be used for costal navigation and may be a substitute for expensive ECDIS(Electronic Chart Display and Information System). Our system consists of maritime navigation databases to manage necessary maritime data and a mobile application to support maritime navigation for operators. We believe that our research findings can improve safety navigation in coastal seas by supporting lower cost, no time-consuming installation and maintenance, and easy-to-use operations.

Performance Verification of Deep Learning based Transmit Power Control (딥러닝 기반 송신전력 조절방안의 성능검증)

  • Lee, Woongsup;Kim, Seong Hwan;Ryu, Jongyeol;Ban, Tae-Won
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.326-332
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    • 2019
  • Recently, the deep learning technology has gained lots of attention which leads to its application to various fields. Especially, there are recent attempts to overcome the limit of wireless communications systems through the use of the deep learning. In this paper, we have verified the performance of deep learning based transmit power control scheme. Unlike previous transmit power control schemes where the optimal transmit power is derived by solving the optimization problem explicitly, in the deep learning based transmit power control, the general solver for the optimization problem is derived through the deep neural network (DNN). Especially, by using the spectral efficiency as the loss function of DNN, the training can be performed without needing labels. Through simulation based on Tensorflow, we confirm that the transmit power control based on deep learning can achieve the optimal performance while reducing the computational complexity by 1/200.