Table of Contents

Preface; Mining the Deep-Sea Vents: Pollution and Conservation Issues; The Role of Deep Submarine Tailings Placement (STP) in the Mitigation of Marine Pollution for Coastal and Island Mines; Marine Debris, A Growing Problem: Sources, Distribution, Composition, and Impacts; An Improved Method for Rapid Determination of the Reduced and Oxidised States of Metallothioneins in Biological Samples; Integrative Ecotoxicological Assessment of Contaminated Sediments in a Complex Tropical Estuarine System; Impact of Climate and Environmental Factors on the Epidemiology of Vibrio Cholerae in Aquatic Ecosystems; Toxicity of African Dust and Related Components to Marine Organisms; Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Toxicity around a Municipal-Industrial Wastewater Discharge in Corpus Christi Bay, Texas; Seasonal Modulated MT Synthesis in the Cockle (Cerastoderma edule) After Parasite and Cadmium Contamination.; Petroleum Pollution and Penguins: Marine Conservation Tools to Reduce the Problem; Heavy Metal Assessment in Two Subtropical Estuarine Systems in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Index.