海洋環境研究發表了關于海洋和沿海水域化學、物理和生物相互作用的原始研究論文。該雜志是一個論壇，提供有關生物學、化學、毒理學和合成的新信息，促進對海洋環境過程的理解。鼓勵提交多學科研究。利用實驗方法闡明海洋生態系統變化的人為和自然原因的作用的研究尤其受歡迎，這些研究代表了海洋科學理論或概念方面的新發展。所有發表在本雜志上的論文在接受和發表之前都要經過合格的同行的審查。被認為適合本雜志的主題包括但不限于以下內容：變化的程度、持續性和后果，以及從自然海洋系統的這種變化中恢復的程度、持續性和后果-污染物對海洋生物和生態系統的生物化學、生理學和生態后果-生物氣體自然發生物質和人為物質的地球化學-描述和預測上述過程的模型-監測研究，其結果提供功能過程的新信息-描述改進的海洋科學定量技術的方法論論文

Marine Environmental Research publishes original research papers on chemical, physical, and biological interactions in the oceans and coastal waters. The journal serves as a forum for new information on biology, chemistry, and toxicology and syntheses that advance understanding of marine environmental processes. Submission of multidisciplinary studies is encouraged. Studies that utilize experimental approaches to clarify the roles of anthropogenic and natural causes of changes in marine ecosystems are especially welcome, as are those studies that represent new developments of a theoretical or conceptual aspect of marine science. All papers published in this journal are reviewed by qualified peers prior to acceptance and publication. Examples of topics considered to be appropriate for the journal include, but are not limited to, the following: - the extent, persistence, and consequences of change and the recovery from such change in natural marine systems - the biochemical, physiological, and ecological consequences of contaminants to marine organisms and ecosystems - the biogeochemistry of naturally occurring and anthropogenic substances - models that describe and predict the above processes - monitoring studies, to the extent that their results provide new information on functional processes - methodological papers describing improved quantitative techniques for the marine sciences