Coastal and marine environmental assessment
Consulting services
There is continuing pressure on the coastal and marine environment from activities including mariculture, agriculture, urbanisation, industrial developments and tourism. Such developments increase the requirement for specialist expertise in environmental impact assessment and coastal zone management. The impact of global climate change includes fluctuations in sea level; this may have an impact world wide, with severe implications for coastal biotopes and communities.
The Natural History Museum employs a team of marine environmental consultants with international experience, who provide a world wide rapid response service to incidents in shallow marine ecosystems. The team is augmented by a unit of fully equipped, registered biologist-divers, and supported by Natural History Museum ecologists, geologists and analytical chemists.
We can offer assistance in:
- coastal and marine ecosystem assessments world-wide with the expertise to identify fauna and flora from the intertidal of the deep sea
- biological evaluation of coastal sites prior to developments and monitoring of development impacts thereafter
- the use of algae and invertebrates as effluent and pollution indicators in estuaries and shallow coastal waters
- the development of conservation management plans
- fisheries and aquaculture, including specialist knowledge of commercially important fish and shellfish parasites
Find out more about our recent Coastal and marine environmental assessment projects.
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For further information contact
Roger Bamber
Department of Zoology
Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London
SW7 5BD
Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 5636
Fax: +44 (0)20 7942 5433
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NHM Consulting
Kristina Duffin
Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London
SW7 5BD
UK
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Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 5816
Fax: +44 (0)20 7942 5841