Sea-nature Studies offers specialist expertise in marine ecology (macrofaunal species, communities, habitats) and is an independent, sole-trader, business based in the UK. With 30 years+ experience to draw on from a variety of sectors including offshore wind, oil and gas and marine aggregates, Sea-nature listens, questions, delivers.
The business is primarily focused on data analysis, interpretation and reporting but includes GIS mapping services as well as small-scale fieldwork projects covering intertidal, saltmarsh, lagoon and sublittoral habitats. In addition, Sea-nature can produce a shadow Habitats Regulations Assessment (sHRA) should you require.
Please request a quote for any and all technical marine ecologicalwork especially, but not limited to, the above contexts.
Some background information and more detail is available here.
Undertaking, as time allows, a self-funded PhD by publication centred on investigating a non-native species of lugworm now found on the south coast of the UK and looking in detail at its morphology, distribution, life history and ecology and how it may be influencing habitat structure and functioning in intertidal areas.
As such Sea-nature Studies also specialises in offering bespoke services to project components particularly concerned with marine non-native species.
What data do you have? What might you reasonably infer from that data, based on what knowledge and premises? What does the published literature say and, of equal importance for ecological work, what does it not say?
Don't Judge Species On Their Origins
Davis, M.A., Chew, M.K., Hobbs, R.J., Lugo, A.E., Ewel, J.J., Vermeij, G.J., Brown, J.H., Rosenzweig, M.L., Gardener, M.R., Carroll, S.P., Thompson, K., Pickett, S.T., Stromberg, J.C., Del Tredici, P., Suding, K.N., Ehrenfeld, J.G., Grime, J.P., Mascaro, J. and Briggs, J.C. (2011). Don't judge species on their origins. Nature, 474, 153–154. doi: 10.1038/474153a.
Sea-nature Studies points, paths and patterns data-narratives in a framework of facts shining a light on the marine mosaic.