NEW! ABPmer launches Global Data Explorer
We are delighted to announce the launch of our Global Data Explorer where you can access free metocean data and statistics.
Using the data explorer you can discover the world’s wind and wave climate, obtain free metocean analyses and download key metocean statistics.
|
|
|
10 point grab sampling checklist
Grab sampling is often used for understanding subtidal seabed sediments. It involves collecting samples from a boat with a grab that is lowered to the bed of the waterbody to collect a sample of the sediment present.
Here are 10 things you might need to consider before you sample....read on
|
|
|
MCA PMSC health check trends
The latest Health Check Trends for the Port Marine Safety Code (PMSC) report has been published by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).
The annual report highlights areas found to require improvement as well as offering examples of good practice...more
|
|
|
In summary - 3 year review of Scotland’s National Marine Plan
Marine Scotland recently published its three year review of implementation of Scotland’s National Marine Plan. The review is a statutory requirement exploring the effects of plan policies, the effectiveness of plan policies and progress in securing plan objectives
The review evaluated implementation of the plan policies by decision-makers and also sought to assess the effectiveness of policies using available data and through a stakeholder questionnaire... more
|
|
|
Final phase of Wallasea restoration underway
and it’s breaking new ground!
We are delighted to report that work has now started on the final phase of the RSPB’s major coastal wetland restoration initiative on Wallasea Island (Essex). Last month, contractors (Bam Nuttall) ‘broke ground’ on the earthworks with a view to completing this last stage during 2018.
This is exciting not least because, when this phase is complete, an area twice the size of the City of London (nearly 800 hectares) will have been transformed into a nature reserve for rare and threatened wildlife. read on
|
|
|
Time to say goodbye to the Weibull distribution in metocean science?
The Weibull distribution is used to extrapolate from available data to gain an insight into the possible magnitude of rare events.
ISO standards provide it as an example (“…an appropriate extreme distribution such as Gumbel or Weibull…”), whilst DNV recommended practises are a little more specific (“For Peak over threshold (POT) and storm statistics analysis, a 2-parameter Weibull distribution or an exponential distribution is recommended”).... read on
|
|
|
ABPmer discusses International Fisheries Agreements in the Faroe Islands
With the UK poised to leave the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and become an independent coastal state under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), increasing attention is being paid to the international arrangements for fisheries management and access.
The CFP has absorbed much of the attention of industry, policy makers and campaigners over recent decades... read on
|
|
|
The 2017 EIA regulations – a marine consultant’s view
On 16 May 2017, the new amended Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive (2014/52/EU) was implemented into UK law. With these new regulations came a range of useful reviews about the changes that they would bring about (1, 2, 3).
One year on, we take a quick look at five key changes, and discuss how they may be altering the way EIA is undertaken in a marine consultancy...continue
|
|
|
|
|
