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Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island
Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, is the Marine Corps' east coast boot camp, training recruits since 1915 in a 13-week program ending in the 54-hour Crucible; its West Coast counterpart is MCRD San Diego.
Marine Corps Security Force Regiment
Marine Corps Security Force Regiment (MCSFR), a MARFORCOM regiment at Norfolk, Virginia, provides anti-terrorism security forces, FAST companies, and nuclear weapons security for strategic weapons and vital national assets.
Marine Corps War Memorial
The Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial) in Arlington, Virginia, is Felix de Weldon's 78-foot bronze of the six Iwo Jima flag raisers, dedicated November 10, 1954, funded by $850,000 in private donations.
Marine defense battalions
Marine defense battalions were United States Marine Corps units organized from October 1939 to provide antiaircraft and coast defense for Pacific naval bases, including Wake, Midway, and Guadalcanal.
Marine diesel engine
A marine diesel engine is a diesel engine used to propel ships or generate power on board, ranging from small craft units to engines over 80,000 kW.
Marine Diesel Oil
Marine diesel oil (MDO) is a distillate marine fuel classified as grade DMB under ISO 8217, sitting between marine gas oil and heavier residual intermediate fuel oils.
Marine Drive, Mumbai
Marine Drive (Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Road), Mumbai's 3.6-km C-shaped Queen's Necklace seafront, built on 1920s Backbay reclamation, part of the 2018 UNESCO Art Deco ensemble, now facing tunnel-linked widening.
Marine ecosystem
A marine ecosystem, also called an oceanic ecosystem, is an interacting system of marine organisms and their environment, including coral reefs, kelp forests, estuaries, and open ocean.
Marine engineering
Marine engineering, also called ocean engineering, is the branch of engineering that designs, builds, and maintains ships' internal systems, including propulsion plants, power generation, and steering gear.
Marine environment
The marine environment is the interacting physical, chemical, and biological system of oceans and seas, covering estuaries, coastal waters, and deep-sea regions that support over 3 billion people.
Marine expeditionary unit
A Marine expeditionary unit (MEU), formerly a Marine Amphibious Unit, is the smallest standing Marine air-ground task force, a sea-based force of roughly 2,200 to 2,500 Marines and Sailors.
Marine fauna
Marine fauna: the animals living in the sea, from plankton and benthic invertebrates to fish, turtles, and marine mammals; studied since Aristotle, with 193,000 species in OBIS and growing human impacts.
Marine food web
Marine food web: the ocean's network of feeding relationships, from phytoplankton and algae producers through zooplankton, fish, and apex predators, with trophic levels, trophic cascades like sea otters and kelp, biomagnification, and climate-driven change.
Marine Gas Oil
Marine gas oil (MGO) is a low-sulfur distillate marine fuel for diesel engines and boilers, the standard compliance fuel in IMO sulfur Emission Control Areas.
Marine gastropod fauna of the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean
The marine gastropod fauna of the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean is the assemblage of sea-snail species on Europe's Atlantic coasts, the North Sea, and the Mediterranean.
Marine gastropod fisheries
Marine gastropod fisheries are the wild harvest of sea snails for food, chiefly abalone, queen conch, whelks, and periwinkles, with wild abalone catch sharply declined.
Marine gastropods of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean
The marine gastropods of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean comprise 2,800 described species from Cape Hatteras to Rio de Janeiro, organized into three provinces.
Marine Haplosclerida
Marine Haplosclerida are an order of exclusively marine demosponge sponges, with about 1,146 described species including giant barrel sponges, Callyspongia, and the first sponge with a sequenced genome.
Marine heatwave
Marine heatwave: prolonged ocean warming event, defined as SST above the seasonal 90th percentile for 5+ days (Hobday et al.). MHW days doubled 1982–2016; 87% attributed to human-induced warming; 2023 set records.
Marine ice cliff instability
Marine ice cliff instability (MICI) is a proposed mechanism in which tall Antarctic ice cliffs collapse under their own weight, potentially adding over 1 m of sea-level rise by 2100.
Marine iguana
Marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus), Galápagos-endemic lizard, the only lizard that forages at sea on algae; shrinks up to 20% during El Niño, IUCN Vulnerable, CITES Appendix I since 2025.
Marine insurance
Marine insurance, also known as maritime insurance, is insurance covering ships, cargo, freight, and liabilities against marine losses, still governed in England by the Marine Insurance Act 1906.
Marine isotope stage
A marine isotope stage (MIS) is a numbered interval of Quaternary time defined by oxygen isotope ratios in deep-sea cores, marking alternating warm and cold periods.
Marine Isotope Stage 3
Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3) is an intermediate climatic stage of the last glacial period, roughly 57,000 to 29,000 years ago, known for abrupt Dansgaard–Oeschger warmings.
Marine larval ecology
Marine larval ecology studies the planktonic larvae of marine species: planktotrophic vs lecithotrophic modes, Thorson's rule, planktonic duration (24 h to >1 year), dispersal, settlement cues, <1% survival, and connectivity for marine reserves.
Marine Le Pen
Marine Le Pen, French far-right Rassemblement National leader and Pas-de-Calais deputy, four-time presidential candidate; run-off finalist 2017 and 2022, convicted of embezzlement in 2025, appeal shortened her ban, declared 2027 candidacy.
Marine lichens of seashores
Marine lichens of seashores are lichenized fungi that live on coastal rocks from salt-spray cliffs into the intertidal zone, with about 700 species worldwide arranged in distinct vertical belts.
Marine life
Marine life: the plants, animals, and microorganisms of the ocean, from plankton to blue whales. Hosts 32 of 34 known phyla, an estimated 500,000 to 10 million species, and produces over half of Earth's oxygen; threatened by warming, acidification, and overfishing.
Marine life of the Indian Ocean
The marine life of the Indian Ocean is the fish, corals, mammals, and other fauna of the 70 million km² basin between Africa, Asia, and Australia.
Marine life of the Mediterranean Sea
The marine life of the Mediterranean Sea comprises about 17,000 recorded species, with the small, nutrient-poor sea supporting 4–18% of the world's marine biodiversity, including bluefin tuna spawning grounds and the threatened Mediterranean monk seal.