Services & Solutions

• Overview
• Marine environment monitoring and management
• Environmental Approvals and EIA
• Coastal surveys
• Spatial services
• Project management and field operations
• Data management
• Environmental audits and compliance assessments
• Biostatistics and survey design
• Seagrass and benthic habitat rehabilitation and restoration

At BMT Oceanica, we understand that effective survey design and biostatistical theory are intrinsically linked.  This enables us to advise on the level of sampling effort required to meet regulator needs as well as provide confidence that the environmental objectives were met and that the program will be capable of detecting ecologically meaningful change. 

Biostatistics

BMT Oceanica has a number of consultants with a strong skills and experience in biostatistics who are actively engaged in statistical research.  Our team of marine scientists have extensive experience and knowledge of modern biostatistical methods and have developed innovative methods for data analysis and QA/QC of calculations and outputs.  BMT Oceanica offers the following biostatistical services:

• Technical review of statistical methods
• Data processing systems (QAQC) and automation
• Univariate statistical analyses
• Multivariate statistical analyses

Survey design

Environmental monitoring programs must be cost effective, sensitive, and targeted.  BMT Oceanica offers the following survey design services:

• Design of monitoring programs and protocols for compliance assessment purposes
• Design of monitoring programs and protocols for EIA purposes
• Statistical power analysis (parametric and non-parametric)
• Statistical risk assessment (see also Innovations)
• Cost-benefit analysis