17 President, International Marine Minerals Society United States Geological Survey.

Non living marine resources include beach and nearshore minerals, deep sea minerals, offshore oil and gas, and chemicals and freshwater from the sea. Deep sea minerals

(a) Marine mineral resources scientific advances and economic perspectives (in collaboration with the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea)

Aside from the traditional non living resources of the sea, such as oil and gas, it is estimated that the seabed contains close to 300 minerals, many of which may eventually prove worthy of exploration and exploitation for the benefit of mankind.

Qin Shanghai, Dean of the Ocean University of China s International Education College, told reporters that marine science, marine organism, marine geology, aquaculture, and utilization of marine bio resource are the distinctive majors of the school.

Mr. Vama opposes the mine on environmental grounds, in particular the discharge of waste into the ocean.

Marine Mineral Resources Scientific Advances and Economic Perspectives, New York UN.DOALOS Kingston, International Seabed Authority, 2004 (ISBN 976 610 616 a).

Marine debris, also referred to as marine litter, is any persistent, manufactured or processed solid material discarded, disposed of or abandoned in the marine and coastal environment.

The combined value of ocean resources such as fish and minerals, including oil and gas, and ocean uses such as the recreation industry, transportation and communications, is currently estimated at approximately 7 trillion per year.

(e) marine environment includes the physical, chemical, geological and biological components, conditions and factors which interact and determine the productivity, state, condition and quality of the marine ecosystem, the waters of the seas and oceans and the airspace above those waters, as well as the seabed and ocean floor and subsoil thereof

Marine environment and marine living resources

Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (London Convention of 1972)

This was followed by scientific presentations on the various mineral resources of the Area and the marine environment in which they are found.

That cooperation resulted in two joint publications Proceedings of the twentieth anniversary commemoration of the opening for signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and Marine Mineral Resources Scientific Advances and Economic Perspectives.15

(a) The Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, 1972

Such substances are divided into four categories for the purpose of discharge criteria, depending upon how hazardous they are to marine resources, human health, amenities and other legitimate uses of the seas.

In the ocean, what is the common point between oil, plastic and radioactivity?

And all sorts of other oxalates are also sequestering carbon dioxide through the minerals that are being formed and taken out of the rock matrix.

In addition, in the context of the Cartagena Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region, UNEP will respond to specific demands relating to the coastal and marine environment, waste, hazardous substances, land based sources of marine pollution, marine biodiversity and tourism related issues.

Discussion Panel A (continued)

Discussion Panel B (continued) Marine debris

Marine debris

And the reason I was interested in getting water is because water which goes through mines becomes kind of acidic and will start picking up, dissolving the minerals from the mine.

The pyramid of ocean life ...

Marine and coastal living resources

According to the United States Marine Mammal Commission, 136 marine species have been reported in entanglement incidents in the wider United States area, including 6 species of sea turtles, 51 species of seabirds and 32 species of marine mammals (Marine Mammal Commission, 1996).

One of them is the oceans are central to the quality of life on earth.

Marine debris

(b) Effects of marine debris (the effects of marine debris on human health, safety, tourism and other economic activities, navigation, marine species, the marine environment and fisheries) (see A 60 63, paras. 241 247)

And they said, you know what happens is, mineral just like at your house mineral builds up.

It is also an issue that is connected to other marine environmental, economic and health problems, including the possible distribution of toxic substances, the destruction of marine habitats and biodiversity, and the transfer of invasive species.

Marine litter has become an issue of concern in the Northwest Pacific region because it is linked to other marine environmental, economic, health and aesthetic problems, including possible transfer of toxic substances and invasive species, destruction of marine habitats and loss of biodiversity.

Marine biodiversity

Marine living resources

The Galle Maritime Museum

Pieces of marine litter can also transport invasive species between seas.

(a) Sources of marine debris (the main land based and sea based sources of marine debris, including fisheries activities) (see A 60 63, paras. 236 240)

We have invested heavily in the exploration of minerals in the deep seabed.

Under an agreement with NASA, there would be direct ground reception of data from the OrbView 2 satellite SeaWIFS (Sea Viewing Wide Field Sensor) on aerosols and ocean colour and biology, thus making it possible to monitor concentrations of sea phytoplankton.

Turning to emerging issues, the practice of farming marine species mariculture is spreading rapidly.

The Division for Ocean Affairs serves as the focal point in charge of all substantive elements of the project.

CSP needs a supply of demineralized freshwater.

The OCI mission is to conduct worldwide ocean colour monitoring for the study of marine biology.

Recently, another source of food which is sustaining a major community of sea creatures has been discovered on the deep ocean floor an unexpected variety of marine organisms growing on whale skeletons.

A. Marine and coastal biological diversity