Hydrographic Studies

 

Organisation

Type of work

Dredging Co

Salcombe - Kingsbridge estuary - Collection of baseline bathymetry, current flow data, drogue and ADCP data to model sediment transport in the estuary. Also baseline and post dredge bathymetric surveys of the dredge area.

Pharmaceutical Co

Morecambe Bay - Initial dilution and dye dispersion study on a shallow tidal discharge.

Oil Company

Solent - Mapping and modelling of a hot temperature plume to determine its possible impact on migrating fish.

Manufacturing Co.

Firth of Clyde - Dye dispersion studies to verify predicted effluent dilutions as part of an IPPC application.

Dredging Co

Plymouth - Bathymetric surveys and sediment plume monitoring as part of a re-development project.

Yorkshire Water

River Wharfe - Bathymetric survey of the river bed close to a pumping station inlet and a weir.

AstraZeneca

South West coast - Baseline research on the flow entrainment characteristics of bays.

Consultant

River Aire - Bathymetric survey of the river upstream of a weir prior to its demolition as part of an impact assessment.

Pharmaceutical Consortium

South West - Investigation of active pharmaceuticals ingredients in two South Western rivers.

AstraZeneca

Severn - Bathymetric survey of the seabed in the vicinity of an effluent pipeline.

PML

Tamar - Axial measurements of current and physico-chemical parameters.

Environment Agency

Tees - Shallow water current measurements over inter-tidal mudflats using an ADCP.

Chemical Company

China - Hydrographic survey & dispersion studies in a major estuary receiving chemical effluents.

Chemical Company

Rhone ( France ) - Hydrographic / ecological / toxicological investigation of aqueous discharge to the River Rhone.

NERC - Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Tamar - Moving current profiling with an ADCP and conductivity, temperature, DO & depth profiles along a 10Km section of the estuary.

Chemical Company

Soane (France) - Hydrographic survey for river modelling of effluent discharges to the River Soane.

Oil company

Prediction of initial dilution and dilution at the edge of the mixing zone for a discharge of a dense effluent in the Forth estuary, Scotland.

Dredging company

Prediction of sediment deposition resulting from dredging in an estuary in the south-west of England, for the local harbour authority.

Power station operator

Modelling temperature contours in the coastal waters resulting from a cooling water discharge from a power station in Scotland, and prediction of the dilution of the site effluent discharge

Oil company

Prediction of the movement and dispersion of oil spills in the lower Tees estuary for COMAH assessment.

Industrial client

Prediction of temperature increase in a dock and adjacent tidal waters of the Swale in south-east England resulting from cooling waters from a new power generation plant.

 

Additional Projects

  Ecospan Ecological Investigations.
  Ecospan Soil and Groundwater Investigations.
  Ecospan DTA Studies.
  Ecospan Diving Surveys.
 
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Mike Field