Environment
Managing and protecting the environment
Cefas works with governments and private sector clients around the world to solve the challenges of coastal and offshore environmental management. Our expertise in monitoring, assessing and predicting the effects of human activities, against a background of natural change in the marine environment, has been built up over fifty years.
Our research and consultancy services cover a wide range of coastal and marine activities, including aggregate extraction, dredging, offshore wind farm development, fishing, aquaculture, oil and gas production, effluent discharge and coastal development.
We take an ecosystem approach to assess the combined effects of multiple human activities on marine and coastal zones.
Expertise
Our fields of expertise include ecotoxicology, water quality assessment, understanding environmental processes, seabed surveys, instrumentation development, data handling and seafood safety.
Institutional strengthening
We advise governments on the development, implementation and regulation of legislation to protect the marine environment, and assist developers and industry to understand and comply with legislation.
Our consultancy and research services cover:
