Water Quality
Measuring water quality is an essential component of any monitoring programme concerned with understanding marine processes and assessing the health status of the aquatic environment.
Cefas provides advice to governments worldwide for improving water quality, based on sound scientific expertise and over 50 years of experience in environmental quality monitoring and assessment.
Deploying in-situ monitoring equipment provides cost effective, real-time data solutions for customers over long periods in order to detect and identify environmental change.
Cefas has an established international reputation for our expertise in designing and operating autonomous monitoring equipment and supporting software systems. Our SmartBuoys provide long-term observations of physical, chemical and biological variables from the sea surface to seabed. One application for these instruments is to observe nutrient concentrations and to identify eutrophication.
Cefas takes an ecosystem approach, where the interaction of all elements is studies as part of a whole, in order to understand how aquatic systems operate.
Services include:
- Management and policy advice for improving water quality
- Advice on the design of monitoring programmes to assess water quality
- Deployment of autonomous instrumentation
- Data collection, analysis and interpretation
- Real-time observation and telemetry of water quality data
- Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for data handling
- Computer modelling
