Planning, project management, consultancy, survey
and analysis in coastal and offshore sectors

 

ECOLOGY SERVICES

Applied Phycology

  • Macroalgae taxonomy
  • Marine resource mapping
  • Community structure analysis
  • Fouling organisms

Benthic Grab and Dredge Sampling

  • Subtidal grab sampling
  • Subtidal dredging
  • Seabed resource mapping
  • Baseline survey & assessment
  • Habitat and biotope mapping
  • Multi variate data analysis

Marine Ecological Assessment

We specialise in the collection, interpretation and dissemination of marine ecological information for impact assessment and consent compliance purposes and to assist decision making processes. Our studies focus on the characterisation of biological communities, their distribution and importance They are carefully designed within the appropriate legislative frameworks and in full consultation with regulators and stakeholders. We offer a comprehensive survey including diving, underwater video, remote seabed sampling and ecological resource mapping both within the UK and overseas and advise on survey strategies and planning.

Conservation Assessments
  • In-situ faunal and floral recording
  • Remote and in-situ video survey
  • Rare species and habitat surveys
  • Data review and database management
  • Habitat and biotope classification
  • Conservation classification
  • Legislative status interpretation
  • Sensitivity analysis

Diving surveys

  • HSE Scientific Dive Team
  • Still Photography
  • Diver operated digital video
  • In-situ macrofaunal and macroalgae identification
  • In-situ recording employing MNCR techniques
  • Diver core sediment sampling
  • Digital video editing
  • Biotope mapping

Fisheries Ecology and Fisheries Activity Assessments

  • Fisheries activity surveys
  • Desk based habitat and behavioural assessments
  • Field monitoring of development impacts on fisheries
  • Assessment of fisheries landings data and associated activity
  • Finfish ecology
  • Shellfish ecology

Habitat and Biotape Mapping

  • Rapid habitat survey techniques
  • In-situ faunal and floral recording.
  • Intertidal and subtidal surveying based on MNCR techniques
  • High level DGPS mapping
  • Remote and in-situ video survey
  • Sidescan survey mapping and habitat interpretation
  • Similarity matching to MNCR
  • Biotope classification
  • Novel Biotope description
  • Biotope mapping into GIS
  • Sensitivity analysis

Intertidal Surveying

  • Intertidal coring
  • Coastal resource mapping
  • Baseline survey & assessment
  • Habitat and biotope mapping
  • Rocky shore surveying
  • Soft sediment coring

Subsea Video - Diver Operated and Remote SurveyDrop down and towed video surveys

  • Ground-truthing of side-scan
  • sonar/bathymetry surveys
  • Baseline survey & assessment
  • Habitat and biotope mapping
  • Coastal and seabed resource mapping
  • Conspicuous species identification
  • Sublittoral macroalgae identification
  • Seabed recovery monitoring
  • Digital editing/ program production

 

Deep knowledge in shallow seas

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