Marine Geology & Coastal Processes
EMU Limited has a strong background in delivering professional environmental marine consultancy services related to coastal and marine geology. EMU’s consultant marine geologists have a range of industry and academic experience which includes:
- Assessing environmental interactions between offshore development and coastal and marine geological resources;
- Site selection for offshore wind farm development based on surface and sub-surface geological characteristics;
- Marine aggregate resource assessments;
- Seabed characterisation and sediment transport processes;
- The role of storms on coastal morphodynamics;
- Numerical modeling of waves; and
- Beach nourishment projects.
Utilisation of a wide range of data sources is required to understand the marine geological environment. EMU consultant geologists have expertise in collecting, analyzing and interpreting a range of marine geological data including:
- Sub-bottom seismic
- Side scan sonar
- Multibeam bathymetry
- Magnetometry
- Gravitometry
- Sediment transport
- Coastal change
An understanding of marine geology is one of the foundations for comprehending the marine environment. It is multi-disciplinary and multi-scale, both spatially and temporally. It is also cross-disciplinary with information about the geology helping to inform the work of EMU’s environmental managers and assessors, oceanographers, marine ecologists, sedimentologists, archaeologists and marine GIS team. This ensures that we have both broad and specialist knowledge of the nature of coastal and marine geological environments, consenting requirements and offshore development projects.