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Optioneering for invasive and non-native species
APEM offer the full range of marine ecology services with a dedicated field team to undertake a wide variety of marine environmental surveys, meeting the needs of clients and appropriate regulatory and stakeholder requirements.
Our specialist marine consultants are involved at all stages of projects, from initial consultation with regulators and agreement of survey designs, to management of the field surveys and reporting of field survey data.
High quality technical reports are tailored to our clients’ requirements, such as environmental baseline survey reports, habitat assessments, EIAs, HRAs or marine licence applications.
We believe APEM are unique in our ability to offer field, laboratory and consultancy for all aspects of projects affecting all aquatic habitats.
Our field scientists have extensive experience in coastal, estuarine and marine environmental surveys, with the appropriate health and safety training and accreditation to undertake both nearshore and offshore surveys.
Our specialist marine team designs and undertakes marine ecology surveys for regulatory requirements such as environmental impact assessments (EIA), Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessments and Habitats Regulations Assessments (HRA).
We also have experience of developing surveys to meet the needs of industry sectors including offshore wind farms, tidal power, aggregates, oil and gas, fisheries and the public sector.
In addition, we have a significant track record in undertaking condition assessment monitoring and feature verification surveys for nature conservation bodies, surveys to identify areas of potential environmental sensitivities and shellfish stock assessments for fishery organisations.
To ensure marine ecology survey designs gather statistically robust data, APEM’s specialist marine consultants use power analyses of each survey design. This allows us to test whether there is sufficient confidence to produce appropriate advice for the relevant project.
Our robust statistical analysis is also an important part of technical reporting and our reports are tailored to the specific needs of clients, such as long-term monitoring programmes and baseline surveys.
Our experienced and skilled taxonomists identify taxa in the field, often to species level, and have the support of our laboratory team for species verification in the laboratory when required.
The experience of our laboratory staff through the NMBAQC scheme also allows us to truncate and standardise marine datasets collected from a variety of sources to ensure they are fit for purpose.
The team at APEM would be happy to answer any questions you have about marine field surveys. Please use the form below to get in touch.
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