CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA) has been awarded the Hard Coral Relocation and Mitigation Works for the New Port Project in Doha, Qatar under a sub-agreement with Middle East Dredging Company (MEDCO). The massive coral relocation project will be managed by a dedicated project management team based out of CSA's Middle East Division in Qatar.

CSA has completed the benthic site survey within the planned dredging and reclamation footprint and coral recipient areas and is currently developing the coral relocation method statement for removal and transportation of approximately 10,000 hard coral colonies. Concurrently, CSA is designing a constructed reef plan using natural limestone materials and fabricated artificial reef units for the creation of new reef habitat and to provide additional substrate for the reattachment of hard coral colonies. The success of the hard coral relocation and constructed reef efforts will be evaluated through a 3-year monitoring program following standard methodologies and guidelines provided by Qatar's Ministry of Environment.

CSA provides professional, experienced services to assess, enhance, rehabilitate, and monitor marine habitats damaged and/or at risk from proposed actions, accidents, and natural events. Primary objectives of restoration activities include accelerating habitat recovery and reducing liability for lost ecological services associated with natural resource damage. Other CSA projects include biological, geological, chemical, and physical oceanographic data collection; reef and hard bottom surveys; environmental assessments and impact statements; biological impact and compliance monitoring; marine habitat mapping; site clearance surveys; hydrographic and bathymetric surveys; data and literature reviews; various types of permitting; and other environmental services associated with beach restoration, borrow areas, ocean dredged material disposal sites, other dredging studies, and marine mining projects.

For more information on CSA services, please call our main office at 772-219-3000 or send us an email.