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      • A new lugworm (Arenicola spp.) on UK shores.
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      • Journal of Conchology >
        • Acanthocardia paucicostata
        • Arcuatula senhousia
      • PMNHS >
        • Bearded fireworms >
          • Video of fireworms feeding on a Mauve stinger
        • Book reviews
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        • Giant worm shell
        • Grey sea-slug
        • Lockdown, lookup
        • Marbled crab
        • Sally lightfoot crab
        • Starlet sea anemone
        • Striped dolphin
      • Mollusc World >
        • Cymbulia peronii
      • Natural history notes and observations >
        • Elysia viridis, the solar-powered sea slug
        • Dog whelk basics
      • Something for the children
    • Aeolian marine species list >
      • Anemones >
        • Actinia cari
        • Actinia equina
        • Anemonia viridis
        • Condylactis aurantiaca
        • Aiptasia mutabilis
        • Calliactis parasitica
      • Worms >
        • Hermodice carunculata
        • Sabella spallanzanii
      • Crustaceans >
        • Dardanus calidus
        • Pachygrapsus marmoratus
        • Percnon gibbesi
        • Palaemon elegans
      • Molluscs >
        • Arca noae
        • Pinna nobilis
        • Octopus vulgaris
        • Sepia officinalis
        • Cerithium vulgatum
        • Haliotis tuberculata
        • Thylacodes arenarius
        • Hexaplex trunculus
        • Stramonita haemastoma
        • Columbella rustica
        • Pleurobranchus testudinarius
        • Patella caerulea
      • Echinoderms >
        • Coscinasterias tenuispina
        • Ophidiaster ophidianus
        • Arbacia lixula
        • Paracentrotus lividus
        • Centrostephanus longispinus
        • Sphaerechinus granularis
        • Holothuria (Panningothuria) forskali
        • Holothuria (Platyperona) sanctori
      • Corals >
        • Astroides calycularis
        • Cladocora caespitosa
      • Jellyfish >
        • Pelagia noctiluca
      • Sponges >
        • Sarcotragus spinosulus
      • Fish >
        • Muraena helena
        • Synodus saurus
        • Symphodus ocellatus
        • Symphodus tinca
        • Thalassoma pavo
    • Dolphin Sightings, Aeolian Islands
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    • Imerys Pool, Dorset
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      • Bembridge Ledges
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      • White Cliff Bay
    • Montages >
      • Calendar, 2004
      • Calendar, 2006
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      • Crackington Haven
      • Edible crab facts
      • Tregardock Beach >
        • Intertidal fauna and flora
    • Saltmarsh
    • Scotland >
      • Handa Island
      • Port of Tarbet, Sound of Handa
    • Sicily >
      • Santa Marina, Salina
    • Bronwich Foreshore
    • Skomer >
      • Benthic fauna
    • Terrestrial species >
      • Minotaur beetle (Typhaeus typhoeus)
  • Falling into holes - a sea log
  • Contact

​​Welcome to Sea-nature Studies, a benthic marine ecology business offering services in ecological assessment and marine education.

In the wide sea, Is life. There, there must the first process be.
There in the little all begin...
(Goethe, 1831).


Sea-nature Studies offers specialist expertise in benthic ecology (species, communities, habitats) and is an independent, sole-trader, marine environmental services 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 ecological work in the above contexts.

Undertaking 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. I therefore split my time between this research and undertaking freelance work as Sea-nature Studies. As such Sea-nature Studies also specialises in offering a service to any projects particularly concerned with marine non-native species.

​Some background information and more detail is available here.

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.


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data-narratives in a framework of facts
shining a light on the marine mosaic.
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  • Home
  • Ecological Assessment
    • Services
    • Research >
      • A new lugworm (Arenicola spp.) on UK shores.
    • Habitat mapping (Salina)
  • Marine Education
    • Services
    • Publications >
      • Journal of Conchology >
        • Acanthocardia paucicostata
        • Arcuatula senhousia
      • PMNHS >
        • Bearded fireworms >
          • Video of fireworms feeding on a Mauve stinger
        • Book reviews
        • By-the-wind-sailor
        • Celtic sea-slug
        • Edible crab
        • Giant worm shell
        • Grey sea-slug
        • Lockdown, lookup
        • Marbled crab
        • Sally lightfoot crab
        • Starlet sea anemone
        • Striped dolphin
      • Mollusc World >
        • Cymbulia peronii
      • Natural history notes and observations >
        • Elysia viridis, the solar-powered sea slug
        • Dog whelk basics
      • Something for the children
    • Aeolian marine species list >
      • Anemones >
        • Actinia cari
        • Actinia equina
        • Anemonia viridis
        • Condylactis aurantiaca
        • Aiptasia mutabilis
        • Calliactis parasitica
      • Worms >
        • Hermodice carunculata
        • Sabella spallanzanii
      • Crustaceans >
        • Dardanus calidus
        • Pachygrapsus marmoratus
        • Percnon gibbesi
        • Palaemon elegans
      • Molluscs >
        • Arca noae
        • Pinna nobilis
        • Octopus vulgaris
        • Sepia officinalis
        • Cerithium vulgatum
        • Haliotis tuberculata
        • Thylacodes arenarius
        • Hexaplex trunculus
        • Stramonita haemastoma
        • Columbella rustica
        • Pleurobranchus testudinarius
        • Patella caerulea
      • Echinoderms >
        • Coscinasterias tenuispina
        • Ophidiaster ophidianus
        • Arbacia lixula
        • Paracentrotus lividus
        • Centrostephanus longispinus
        • Sphaerechinus granularis
        • Holothuria (Panningothuria) forskali
        • Holothuria (Platyperona) sanctori
      • Corals >
        • Astroides calycularis
        • Cladocora caespitosa
      • Jellyfish >
        • Pelagia noctiluca
      • Sponges >
        • Sarcotragus spinosulus
      • Fish >
        • Muraena helena
        • Synodus saurus
        • Symphodus ocellatus
        • Symphodus tinca
        • Thalassoma pavo
    • Dolphin Sightings, Aeolian Islands
  • Gallery
    • Licensing content
    • Fareham Creek, Portsmouth Harbour
    • Imerys Pool, Dorset
    • Isle of Wight >
      • Bembridge Ledges
      • Bonchurch Shore
      • White Cliff Bay
    • Montages >
      • Calendar, 2004
      • Calendar, 2006
    • North Cornwall >
      • Crackington Haven
      • Edible crab facts
      • Tregardock Beach >
        • Intertidal fauna and flora
    • Saltmarsh
    • Scotland >
      • Handa Island
      • Port of Tarbet, Sound of Handa
    • Sicily >
      • Santa Marina, Salina
    • Bronwich Foreshore
    • Skomer >
      • Benthic fauna
    • Terrestrial species >
      • Minotaur beetle (Typhaeus typhoeus)
  • Falling into holes - a sea log
  • Contact