environmental management and risk assessment land pollution

Resource assessment and habitat mapping form part of our ecological survey service.

Habitat mapping helps decision-makers be more sensitive to ecological features in the environment and allows potential impacts to be spatially modeled with greater accuracy.

Habitat mapping has a crucial role to play in establishing baseline data on the ecology of an area and what natural resources are present. This is important, because for example, without good baseline data, decision-making for development is more difficult and can ignore important habitat characteristics.

Oceans-ESU utilises the latest in digital technologies to bring our clients' environmental data to life. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) plot spatial relationships between environmental parameters to generate realistic maps and charts of contaminant distribution to a fine resolution. By integrating GIS systems with our ongoing monitoring programmes we are able to generate temporal models with predictive qualities, and feed information in to decision making processes on a local or regional scale.

Members of our groundwater assessment team are trained in the application and interpretation of the latest groundwater modeling packages, and apply these techniques to predictive pollution dispersion modeling, risk assessment, and groundwater vulnerability modeling.