Preventing impacts: Expert advice to avoid or minimise impacts from human activities on critical marine environmental habitats and species, in particular seagrasses, mangroves and coral reefs

Examples: dredging & reclamation, power & desalination plants, waste water discharge, causeways, pipelines, artificial reefs, aquaculture, oil spills.

Predicting impacts: Technical support to environmental impact studies through habitat suitability modelling and interrogation of modelling results

Examples: seagrass habitat suitability modelling in relation to water quality, site-selection for seagrass restoration and artificial reef deployment, mangrove change analysis, seagrass mapping, trend analysis, aerial surveys for wetland vegetation assessments.