CAPABILITIES
AQUAFACT provides a staff with extensive applied and academic research experience, possessing a strong theoretical background in understanding all aspects of the environment. AQUAFACT personnel are fully competent in all current environmental assessment methods and are active in further development and refinement of such techniques and their applications.
AQUAFACT’s applications include the following:
- Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA’s) for offshore and onshore windfarms, aquaculture, fisheries and industry.
- Baseline and characterising surveys aimed at identifying the type and scale of natural variations of ecosystems.
- Predictive modelling of water, air and noise environments.
- Shallow and deep water environmental baseline and monitoring studies for the oil and gas industry.
- Studies and surveys related to domestic, municipal and industrial effluent discharges.
- Pre- and post-impact surveys on dredge-spoil disposal sites.
- Site-selection investigations for proposed aquatic and terrestrial activities estimating the productivity and carrying capacity of locations with respect to aquaculture development.
- Monitoring and managing aquaculture activities particularly with respect to the surrounding environment.
- Wave climate studies for environmental and engineering purposes.
- Environmental protection and conservation.
- Landfill studies.
- The application of high technology developments in environmental survey and monitoring.
- Coastal zone management.
AQUAFACT is widely used by industrial and government agencies to research and resolve environmental problems. The company has international experience in a wide range of monitoring, research and development studies of the environment and is active in the development of new and more effective techniques of environmental assessment.