Skills Matrix
For further information on skills and services offered by the BMSG and associates please contact us.
| Marine Management & Conservation | |
| Sustainable marine resource strategies | |
| Integrated coastal zone management plans | |
| Marine protected area programmes | |
| Watershed ecosystems management | |
| Area, species or habitat specific literature searches, bibliographies and reporting | |
| Sustainable management planning | |
| Programme & project evaluation | |
| Conflict resolution | |
| Statutory & non-statutory marine regulatory advice | |
| Legal & policy, guidelines, coordination and review | |
| Marine market analysis | |
| Assisting in partnership building and liaison to promote ICZM | |
| Governance & economics | |
| Resource valuation & compensation | |
| Strategic & socio-economic impact assessment | |
| Monitoring programmes for marine protected areas | |
| Advice on UK marine Biodiversity Action Plan habitats and species | |
| Stakeholder liaison to gather and document anecdotal evidence (otherwise unpublished | |
| Marine Biology, Biodiversity & Biological Resource Assessments | |
| Biotope & habitat mapping | |
| Subtidal & intertidal surveys | |
| Marine mammal surveys | |
| Taxanomic services | |
| Biodiversity action plans | |
| Ornithological surveys | |
| Ecological risk assessment | |
| Environmental vulnerability & sensitivity mapping | |
| Environmental Impact Assessment | |
| Oceanography | |
| Bathymetry | |
| Tidal Currents | |
| Wind & Wave Climates | |
| Seabed Geology | |
| Sedimentary Processes | |
| Coastline & Shore Dynamics | |
| Water Quality | |
| Planktonic Communities | |
| Benthic Ecology | |
| Intertidal Ecology | |
| Fish & Shellfish Ecology | |
| Marine Mammals | |
| Birds | |
| Coastal Habitats | |
| Aquatic Environments | |
| Underwater sound | |
| Sonar | |
| Ships | |
| Marine legislation | |
| Strategic Environmental | |
| Noise Emissions | |
| Autonomous vehicles | |
| Hazardous substances | |
| Aquaculture & Fisheries | |
| Aquaculture feasibility studies | |
| Broodstock & genetics | |
| Farm design & construction | |
| Farm operation & management | |
| Nutrition & feed development | |
| Aquaculture waste management & commercial by-products | |
| Hatchery design & management | |
| Marine ornamental fish | |
| Fisheries stock assessment | |
| Fisheries policy research & development | |
| Fisheries management | |
| Economic impact assessment | |
| Processing & marketing of seafood products | |
| Marine Chemistry & Water Quality | |
| Water quality monitoring | |
| Environmental microbiology | |
| Microbiological sampling & analysis | |
| Ecotoxicological sampling & analysis | |
| Micro-algology | |
| Waste water & pollution assessment | |
| Chemical sampling & analysis | |
| Physical Oceanography, Hydrography & Geophysics | |
| Oceanographic data analysis | |
| Modelling & forecasting | |
| Tidal predictions | |
| Hydrographic surveys & modelling | |
| Bio-physical interactions | |
| Underwater optics | |
| Bio-optical oceanography | |
| Ship, aerial & satellite remote sensing | |
| Image processing & algorithm development | |
| Physical Processes | |
| Geotechnical measurements | |
| Seabed mapping & sampling | |
| Sediment transport & modelling | |
| Geo-Acoustic surveys | |
| Characterisation | |
| Drift modelling | |
| Energy | |
| Radionucleide tracking | |
| Decommisioning studies | |
| EIA’s for energy sector (e.g. offshore renewables, oil & gas) | |
| Remediation, clean-up & recovery advice | |
| Forensics | |
| Wildlife Crime | |
| DNA fingerprinting | |
| Chemical fingerprinting | |
| Tracking illegal oil dumping | |
| Product Adulteration | |
| Marine Acoustics | |
| Acoustic impacts on Marine Mammals & Fish | |
| Transmission modelling | |
| Modelling | |
| Impact Assessment | |
| Transducers | |
| Marine Acoustic Engineering | |
| Measurement | |
| Geoacoustics | |
| Design & Production of sensors | |
| Ambient noise | |
| Acoustic Propagation | |
| Taxonomy | |
| Animal & plant taxonomic services | |
| Specimen validation | |
| Reference collections | |
| In situ epibenthic taxonomy in the UK, Red Sea & Indo-Pacific | |
| Photo and video analysis | |
| Compilation of Reference collections | |
| Bespoke subtidal & intertidal surveys | |
| Underwater photography and video | |
| Biotape & habitat mapping | |
| Remote Sensing | |
| Processing & Interpretation of satellite imagery | |
| Portable reception capability | |
| Application development | |
| Coral reef mapping | |
| Image processing | |
| Marine feature detection and delineation | |
| Ocean and meteorological parameters | |
| Coastal Monitoring | |
| Instrumentation | |
| Field Measurements | |
| Remote Sensing | |
| Wave & Tide Monitoring | |
| Suspended sediment concentration | |
| Marine Biology Studies | |
| Waste Management | |
| Waste Management | |
| Water conservation | |
| Food waste, sludge oil and sewage sludge | |
| Customer-specific integrated waste | |
| Environmental Assessments | |
| Independent technical studies | |
| River Basin Management | |
| Comprehensive monitoring | |
| Analytical, modeling & management service analytical, and Erosion and sedimentation problems | |
| River crossing assessments | |
| Effects of aggregate extraction | |
| Climate change impacts | |
| Flood Risk/Consequence Assessments | |
| Extreme fluvial and glacial floods | |
| Hydrological assessments | |
| Computational hydraulic and sediment modelling | |
| Contamination assessment, remediation and modelling | |
| Fluvial response to tailings dam failures | |
| Effects of flooding on river pollution control | |
| River corridor surveys, EIAs and fluvial audits | |
| River restoration | |
| Environmental archaeological investigations | |
| Catchment studies and sustainability | |
| Geographical Information Systems (GIS) | Habitat and biotape mapping |
| Spatial and graphical representation of data onto maps and aerial photos using MapInfo (GIS) | |
| Education & Interpretation | |
| Provision of interpretation/educational materials specific to an area of interest, such to an area of interest, such as a hotel or MPA (brochures, webpages and maps) | |
| Baseline and monitoring training for coral reef survey | |
| Training in basic benthic survey (UK) | |
| Basic GIS training using MapInfo or ArcGIS | |
| Baseline and monitoring training for coral reef survey | |
| Co-ordination of educational marine awareness events (public, private or school |
