Coastal and Marine Research

About this Journal
Editorial Board
Instructions for Authors
Ethical Guidelines
Archives

The Coastal and Marine research is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal that publishes integrative and substantive reviews.

The journal presents essential information to engineers/scientists working in the field of coastal and marine research.

We welcome the submission of original papers, reports and comprehensive reviews on the areas of subjects, but are not limited to, following:

Coastal research (studies on waves, currents, floods, dredging, coastal pollution, morphodynamics, harbor and offshore structures, coastal development, coastal protection, coastal environment etc.)
Marine research (studies on marine biology, marine organisms and their environment, ecological surveys, taxonomy, morphology and life history of marine animals, marine biodiversity etc.)

The journal is intended to cover fundamental studies on analytical models, numerical computation, laboratory experiments, field measurements and case studies of real projects.

Article Processing Charges

Coastal and Marine Research does not currently require any page, color, or article processing charges.The open access policy of the journal aims at increasing the visibility and accessibility of published content that provides a desirable research impact.

Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Christos Antoniadis
International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research, Greece
Research Areas: Coastal Protection, Coastal Research, Sediment Transport, Breakwaters, Waves, Currents

Editorial Board

Dr. Amy Hirons
Nova Southeastern University, USA
Research Areas: Oceanography-Biological and Chemical, Stable Isotope Analysis,Food Web Dynamics, Marine Ecosysterms, Palecocernography
Prof. Benoit Chenais
Université du Maine – Le Mans, Department of Science and Technology - Biology, France
Research Areas: Transcription Factors; 0xidative Stress; Nitric Oxide; Microalgae; Marine Invertebrates; Stress Response Genes; Transposable Elements; Cancer Cell Behavior (differentiation, apoptosis, migration/invasion, oxidative stress…)
Dr. Hao Luo
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Research Areas: Ocean Mesoscale Circulation, Climate Variability, Climate Change, Ocean Modeling, Water Resource Engineering
Dr. HZhang
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA
Research Areas: Marine Biology, Molecular Ecology, Population Genetics,Aquacuture, Evolutionary Biology
Prof. Junliang Zhou
East China Normal University, China
Research Areas: Marine Geochemistry, Marine Pollution
Prof. Leonov Arkadii
The University of Akron, USA
Research Areas: Classic and Polymer Related Continuum Mechanics of Solids and Liquids (including geophysical fluid mechanics), Polymer Rheology and Fluid Mechanics, Polymer Physics and Physico-chemistry, Polymer Processing, Mathematical Sociology
Dr. Lindsey White
Coastal and Marine Research, New Zealand
Research Areas: Phycology, Ecology, Fisheries, Aquaculture, Nutritional Ecology
Dr. Louis Tremblay
School of Biological Sciences, University Auckland/Cawthron Institute, New Zealand
Research Areas: Aquatic Toxicology, Ecological Risk Assessment, Biomarkers, Mechanistic Toxicology, Pollution Management, Endocrine Disruption.
Dr. Manasa Behera
Institute for Energy Systems,The University of Edinburgh, UK
Research Areas: Wave and Tide Energy, Climate Change, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Coastal Engineering, Numerical Simulation of Water Waves, Modelling of Tide and Tsunami, Wave-Current Interaction, Numerical Solution of Differential Equations, Multi-Phase Flows, Parallel Computing
Dr. Stefano Bonacci
Department od Environmental Sciences “G. Sarfatti” – University of Siena, Siena
Research Areas: Ecotoxicology, Environmental Quality, Biomonitoring, Biomarkers, Biochemistry, Enzymes
Dr. Yin Wang
Gillette Management LLC, 460 Basingstoke Road, Reading, Berkshire, UK, RG2 0QE, UK
Research Areas: Solid Mechanics, Biomechanics for Soft Tissue, Finite Element Model, Dynamics of Particulate Solid
Dr. Samsoor Mohamed
Division of Environmental Impact Assessment Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON) Anaikatty, Coimbatore-641 111, Tamil Nadu, India, India
Research Areas: Wildlife Biology, Ecology, Animal Behaviour
Dr. Subha Ganguly
West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences, Kolkata, WB, India
Research Areas: Microbiology and Allied Disciplines
Dr. John M. Robbins
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, USA
Research Areas: Interaction between Aviation Applications, Agriculture, Unmanned-aircraft systems, GIS, Geological/Coastal/Fluvial Morphonlogy Applications
Prof. J.N.Mandal
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Research Areas: Geotechnical Engineering, Geological/Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Geosynthetics Engineering
Dr. Kitojo Wetengere
Centre for Foreign Relations, Tanzania
Research Areas: Marketing of agricultural products, adoption of farm technology, development studies and aquaculture economics
Dr. Mohammad hadi dehghani
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Iran
Research Areas: Air pollution, Municipal waste, Hospital waste, Water pollution
Dr. Tapas Acharya
Department of Geology, Hooghly Mohsin College, Inida
Research Areas: Geology, Hydrogeology, Remote Sensing and GIS, Geophysical exploration techniques

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