Author:Mdakane, Lizwe W; Meyer, Rory GV; Sibolla, Bolelang HDate:Aug 2020Oil spill over the sea surface formed because of oil-tanker accidents or illegal bilge dumping of tankers can cause significant environmental damage depending on the location and amount. The international legislation contains minor and ...Read more
Author:Truter, JC; Van Wyk, JH; Oberholster, Paul J; Botha, A-M; Mokwena, LMDate:May 2017Knowledge regarding the potential impacts of crude oil on endocrine signaling in freshwater aquatic vertebrates is limited. The expression of selected genes as biomarkers for altered endocrine signaling was studied in African clawed frog, ...Read more
Author:Mdakane, Lizwe W; Kleynhans, WDate:Oct 2020Oil spills are often caused by vessels when dumping oily bilge wastewater at sea (also referred to as bilge dumping). In an synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image, oil spills dampen the radar energy return and appear as linearly shaped dark ...Read more
Author:Mdakane, Lizwe W; Kleynhans, WaldoDate:Jun 2017Oil slick events caused due to bilge leakage/dumps from ships and from other anthropogenic sources pose a threat to the aquatic ecosystem and need to be monitored on a regular basis. An automatic image-segmentation-based framework to detect ...Read more
Author:Moldan, AGS; Ridder, JHDate:1989The debate over the degradation of coastal waters by sewage, oil and industrial wastes, continues. To provide a wide-ranging but concise examination of this topic, the Foundation for Research Development of the CSIR organized a one-day public ...Read more