Ocean Science Consulting Ltd.

General information

Ocean Science Consulting Limited (www.osc.co.uk) is a technology-focused R&D marine science company involved principally in providing environmental services for the coastal and offshore industries worldwide, with a special focus on marine mammal monitoring, underwater acoustics, sound measurement, noise-field propagation modelling, and anthropogenic noise.

Clients have included a range of industries: aquaculture, Marine Renewable Energy Device or MRED (hydro and wind power e.g. underwater turbine and wind farms), oil and gas production (rigs, platforms, FPSOs, offshore support, guard and chase vessels), geophysical (VSP/3D seismic and drilling exploration), hydrographical survey, pipeline (laying, trenching, rock-dumping, side-casting and fall-pipe vessels), dredging (TSHDs, split-hopper barges and backhoe jack-ups), engineering and construction, and the media, academia, government, and consultancies.

Services include project planning and management, scientific experiments and studies, environmental monitoring and consultancy, field-data collection, data analysis and interpretation. More specifically, our expertise includes the following:

• Marine Mammal Observer (MMO)
• Protected Species Observer (PSO)
• Marine Fauna Observer (MFO)
• Marine Mammal & Seabird Observer (MMSO)
• Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) operator
• MMO & PAM training for NZ (DOC accredited)
• Towed hydrophone arrays (PAM equipment)
• Static hydrophone systems (PAM equipment)
• Echolocation click detector T-PODs & C-PODs (PAM equipment)
• Broadband and narrowband recorders (PAM
equipment)
• Sound-transmission-loss modelling
• Noise measurement & propagation modelling
• Real-time-attended-noise-validation monitoring & modelling (noise-level limits/thresholds)
• Distance sampling (population estimates)
• Data collection, analysis and interpretation
• Marine policy, regulation & permit applications
• Government liaison & stakeholder engagement
• Environmental Impact (and risk) Assessment (EIA)
• Marine Mammal Mitigation Plan (MMMP)
• Literature reviews & advice documents
• Commercial boat charter (Category 3)
• Project planning & management
• Scientific studies & experiments
• Environmental monitoring

Please contact us for further details:

OSC Limited
Spott Road
Dunbar
East Lothian, Scotland
EH42 1RR

T: +44 (0)1368 865 722
F: +44 (0)1368 865 729
E: info@osc.co.uk
W: www.osc.co.uk; www.osc-nz.co.nz