SERVICES OVERVIEW
CREDIBLE SCIENCE
Our team use experience and technical skills to develop robust, cost-effective and practical solutions for surface and groundwaters, tailored to our client’s needs, and in accordance with local, state and federal regulatory requirements. Our highly qualified team of specialists have a proven track record of delivering high quality services and successful outcomes for local government, industry and resource clients, across Australia and the Asia Pacific region.
FIELD CAPABILITY
Sediment chemistry & Water quality investigations.
Stream health condition assessment (AUSRIVAS, SWIRC)
Aquatic biota and ecosystem health assessments.
Estuarine benthic infauna community studies.
Smith-Root accredited Electrofishing assessments.
Environmental DNA targeted species surveys.
Heavy metal tissue & ecotoxicity studies.
Aquatic Pest Removal & Management.
LABORATORY CAPABILITY
We are specialised in the taxonomy of:
Freshwater aquatic macroinvertebrates.
Aquatic macrophytes and benthic algae.
Phytoplankton and zooplankton.
Fish, crayfish, turtles and water birds.
Estuarine benthic infauna communities.
Stygofauna (hyporheic and/or groundwater)
TECHNICAL CAPABILITY
Desktop gap analysis and literature reviews.
Source-Pathway-Receptor risk assessments.
Deriving local water quality guideline values.
GIS mapping & spatial analysis.
Trigger and threshold criteria reporting.
Univariate and multivariate data analysis.
Detailed technical reporting deliverables.
Technical peer reviews.
We are trusted partners at the design and scoping project phase to ensure risk to water resources and aquatic ecology can be effectively avoided, mitigated and managed, saving our clients both time and money, whilst providing science-based solutions and certainty around project environmental approvals and for compliance with EIA and Ministerial Conditions