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Expertise & Services

Ocean Life Survey provides a range of aquatic marine and freshwater expertise to our clients, from expert advice and consultation, desk based research and reporting, through to field operations and surveys, specialist operations, and remote monitoring.  A brief overview of some of our services is provided below for you information.


Expert Advice


Ocean Life Survey offers expert advice to our clients, via our discreet consultation services. Please contact us to discuss your requirements or for an initial consultation.

Office & Lab Research

Ocean Life Survey can provide our clients with a range of office and lab based services. This includes desk based research, analysis, reporting, design and planning work, as well as remote monitoring, investigation and reporting. We can also deliver lab based services, analysis, assessment and reports, and run controlled experiments, design and deliver custom equipment fabrication and bench testing.  Please contact us to discuss your requirements.  

Search & Survey Options

Ocean Life Survey offers a range of search, survey and monitoring options worldwide,  including from land, vessel, aircraft, submersible, or from using remote systems.  In addition to offering traditional survey options, from land, chartered vessel or aircraft platforms, we can deploy our own easily transportable UAV for aerial surveys, UROV for underwater surveys, thermal imaging and survey equipment, to almost any location worldwide, whether river, lake,  estuarine, coastal, island, open ocean or sea-ice environment. 

Ocean Life Survey can provide visual observer surveys, and offer HD video/camera survey systems operating and recording from land, boat, submersible and airborne platforms, allow live viewing and observation (with live streaming options), and later playback desk analysis. We can also provide live thermal monitoring and recorded footage from airborne, land and boat based platforms, as well as acoustic and sampling operations. 

Vessel-Based Operations 

Ocean Life Survey can plan and deliver a range of vessel based operations, including transect, line transit, sector, and opportunistic surveys, whether for marine mammal (including photo ID; DNA capture; tagging) and seabird observer surveys; nocturnal thermal marine mammal and seabird surveys; marine debris; vertebrate species (including fish/shark/turtle); invertebrate species (including squid/jellyfish), plankton surveys/trawls; sonar imaging; magnetometer; salinity/temperature, ice-cover; acidity; together with vessel based UROV operations; AROV operations, and acoustic surveys.

Underwater Operations

Ocean Life Survey can provide underwater operations, including UROV provision, operational planning and piloting, for search, survey, and sampling within river, lake and marine environments,  whether over track, quadrat, water column, or bed surveys. We can also provide diving & snorkel operations for a variety of searches and surveys. As well as UROV and diver snorkel operations, we can further provide: drop/drifting underwater video survey (baited/un-baited); static bed camera surveys; water column surveys and sampling (e.g. Phyto/Zoo plankton, organism; plastics, suspended sediment sampling); bed sediment and organism sampling; depth temperature and light measurement; acoustic surveys; sonar searches surveys; and magnetometer surveys.  

Aerial Operations

Ocean Life Survey can provide aerial operations, including UAV provision, operational planning, and pilot to deliver UAV searches and surveys to 4km range (HD and Thermal Imaging). We can also deliver aircraft observer surveys (HD & Thermal Imaging). We have experience of previous successful delivery of marine megafauna (marine mammals, turtles, sharks, sunfish etc..), seabirds, turbidity, plankton, and ice cover surveys, and compliance operations.

Land-Based Operations

Ocean Life Survey can deliver land-based aquatic searches and surveys, including observer, HD video, thermal imaging surveys of river, lake, coastal, coastal, island, and ice environments, whether for marine/freshwater mammals, seabirds/waterbirds, or for other marine/freshwater megafauna. We also provide land based water sampling services, sediment monitoring (e.g. using land accessed sediment traps), shoreline searches and surveys (for instance for habitat and species), marine/estuarine/freshwater vertebrate and invertebrate surveys, whether within water, pool, sediment or on non tidal shore line, or within an intertidal zone.  We are also able to deliver land based UROV and UAV deployment, searches and surveys.  

Thermal Imaging - Searches, Surveys, and Monitoring

Ocean Life Survey can deliver land-based, vessel based, aerial (UAV and aircraft) based thermal imaging surveys/operations for both daylight and nighttime conditions. We have previously delivered successful marine mammal, and seabird surveys, and have capabilities to deliver water temperatures surveys and compliance monitoring. We can provide the thermal imaging systems, operator and expertise required for such operations.

Remote Sensing - Searches, Surveys and Monitoring

Ocean Life Survey has the capacity to deliver remote sensing monitoring, operations and surveys, using satellite, GIS, and other systems, for marine mammal, seabird, marine megafauna, plankton, and ice cover surveys, as well as for oceanographic and meteorological monitoring, and commercial vessel monitoring and compliance.
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Ocean Life Survey is happy to offer its range of marine and freshwater research expertise, and operational capability to new and existing clients, whether desk based research, design and planning consultation services, to field research, survey and operations, data analysis and reporting. Please contact us at oceanlifesurvey@gmail.com to discuss commissioning any of our services.  

A simple menu of some of the expertise and operations we offer is provided below. 

Ocean Life Survey Expertise & Services

1. Marine mammal species

Observational, thermal, acoustic surveys. 
Aerial surveys.
Boat based surveys.
Land based surveys.
Occurrence, distribution, abundance, & behavior studies.
Tagging & biopsy.
 DNA, hormone, bio-accumulation studies.
Technological monitoring.
Marine mammal disturbance studies.
Commercial marine mammal tourism operation, assessment, monitoring & compliance.
Large whale thermal detection and alert systems for port & vessel operations.
Dolphin thermal detection & avoidance systems for port & vessel operations.
Marine mammal deterrent systems.
Marine mammal rescue operations.
Dead marine mammal assessment & disposal.
  Environmental impact assessment.


2. Shark species

Observational, thermal, acoustic surveys. 
Aerial surveys.
Boat based surveys.
Land based surveys.
Occurrence, distribution, abundance, & behavior studies.
Tagging & live biopsy.
Baited/Un-baited under water video surveys (static & towed).
 DNA, hormone, bio-accumulation studies.
Technological monitoring.
Deterrent systems.
Environmental impact assessment.


3. Seabird & water bird species


Observational, thermal, acoustic surveys. 
Aerial surveys.
Boat based surveys.
Land based surveys.
Occurrence, distribution, abundance, & behavior studies.
Environmental impact assessment.


4. Fish & aquatic vertebrate species

Fyke netting, assessment & release
Static underwater video (baited/un-baited)
Drifting/Towed underwater video (baited/un-baited)
Line catch, assessment & release.
Trawl netting.
Tagging.
Occurrence, distribution, abundance, & behavior studies.
Environmental impact assessment.


5. Aquatic invertebrate species

Bi-valve & shellfish beach, reef, seabed surveys and assessment.
Fyke netting, assessment & release.
Static underwater video (baited/un-baited).
Drifting/Towed underwater video (baited/un-baited).
Sub surface collection & assessment.
Occurrence, distribution, abundance, & behavior studies.
Environmental impact assessment.


6. Plankton species

Zooplankton & Phytoplankton occurrence, distribution & abundance
Plankton surveys (secchi disk, trawls).
Microscope wet analysis identification.
Dry mass analysis. 
Occurrence, distribution, abundance, & behavior studies.
Environmental impact assessment.


7. Aquatic debris & plastic survey

Observational survey.
Trawl survey.
Water column sampling survey.
Sediment survey.
Occurrence, distribution, abundance, & behavior studies.
Environmental impact assessment.
Debris removal.


8. Oceanographic studies

Seabed survey's (side-scan sonar; underwater camera; seabed sampling).
Tidal streaming & current analysis.
Marine mapping & cartography.
Water temperature, salinity, acidity.
Underwater ROV survey.
        
         
9.Marine reserve & marine protected area operations

Identification & establishment.
Education & stakeholder engagement.
Biological monitoring design & delivery.
Compliance monitoring design & law enforcement operations.
Tourism & recreational establishment, permits, monitoring & compliance.
Remote monitoring.

Environmental impact assessment.


10. Aquatic habitat surveys

UROV survey.
Diver/snorkel survey.

Dropped underwater camera survey.
Towed underwater camera survey.
Aerial drone camera survey.
Sonar/side-scan/multibeam survey.
Seabed sediment sampling.
Water column sampling.
 Salinity, acidity, temperature survey.
Plankton survey.
Debris survey.
Pollution survey.
Sediment survey.
Tidal/current streaming & analysis.
Fish & marine vertebrate survey.
Invertebrate survey.
Aquatic mammal survey.
Seabird/Waterbird survey.
Shark survey.
Seaweed survey.
Aquatic Plant Survey.

​Environmental impact assessment.


11. Sedimentation surveys

Sediment trap sampling, analysis & assessment.
Turbidity monitoring and assessment.
Environmental impact assessment.


12. Bio-security surveys for vessel hulls, structures, & aquatic environments

Underwater UROV survey.
Dropped underwater camera survey.
Towed underwater camera survey.
Diver/snorkel survey.



13  Engineering, biological & geoengineering systems

Marine environment enhancement & conservation (systems & techniques).
Oceanographic and climate process utilization and modification (systems & techniques).
Renewable powered carbon capture and sequestration (systems & techniques).
Artificial habitats.



14) Coastal, estuarine, freshwater hydrology & geomorphology

Processes monitoring and assessment.
Landform monitoring and assessment.
Erosion & deposition monitoring and assessment.
Flood defense monitoring and assessment.


15) Coastal flooding & sea level rise

Coastal flooding risk and impact assessment.
Sea level rise monitoring.
Coastal hydrological systems monitoring.
Sal water incursion monitoring.
 

16) Novel system design and development

Novel marine survey systems design & delivery.
Whale alert systems for commercial shipping.
Marine mammal thermal detection systems for whale ship strike & marine mammal bycatch reduction

Remote electronic monitoring systems.
Dead whale sea burial system.
Thermal aerial drone systems.
Custom systems design, development, testing and assessment.


​17) Artificial habitat design, instillation, monitoring.

Site selection and assessment.
Artificial habitat advice, design and instillation.
Pre and post monitoring. 
Static & dynamic systems.



For more specific information on these and other services we offer please contact us at oceanlifesurvey@gmail.com and explore our other website pages.

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