Pockmarks and associated fresh submarine groundwater discharge in the seafloor of Puck Bay, southern Baltic Sea.

This is the first well-documented report on the occurrence of pockmarks in Puck Bay. Pockmarks in the seafloor of Puck Bay were discovered during a hydroacoustic survey carried out in 2020. They are located at a depth of 25-27 m in the southwestern part of the bay.

Anomalous diffraction approximation to the light scattering coefficient spectra of marine particles with power-law size distribution.

Based on anomalous diffraction approximation, analytical expressions for the scattering coefficient of marine particles with power-law size distribution in the infinite domain of sizes (0, ∞) were derived. Comparison with the exact Mie solution for the light scattering by spheres indicated that the obtained expressions can describe the relative spectral variability of the scattering coefficient well. This is demonstrated and discussed for the scattering spectra of main types of marine particulates characterized by different optical properties.