At this week’s 2017 National Conference on Beach Preservation Technology in Stuart, Florida, scientists from CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA) will describe the collection, processing, and analysis of subsea and aerial imagery using Full Motion Video (FMV) tools and other software to examine local and regional environmental issues along our Florida shorelines and waterways, including algal blooms, hardbottom and seagrass mapping, and beach dynamics.

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STUART, FL – January 30, 2017 – Continental Shelf Investment Capital Corporation (CSIC), the investment affiliate of Continental Shelf Associates, Inc. (CSA) has acquired the stock of Morgan & Eklund, Inc. (M&E), a hydrographic and land survey firm based in Wabasso, Florida.

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Low-tide photograph of exposed eelgrass bed near Point Pinole, San Francisco Bay, revealing how seagrasses can be exposed to oil on the water surface as the result of tidal stage. Photograph by M. Fonseca.

A review and case study from San Francisco Bay

CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA) is pleased to announce the recent online publication in Marine Pollution Bulletin senior authored by Dr. Mark Fonseca, CSA Vice President - Science. Dr. Fonseca worked in collaboration with NOAA staff from both the NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and the NOAA Fisheries Restoration Center/Damage Assessment, SW Region to research and draft the article “Susceptibility of seagrass to oil spills: A case study with eelgrass, Zostera marina in San Francisco Bay, USA.”

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Engineering wave climate produces additional seagrass cover and in-kind services prior to anticipated project-related effects

CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA) has been contracted by the State of North Carolina Department of Transportation to conduct novel seagrass enhancement using the manipulation of wind wave energy to provide new and sustained seagrass acreage in anticipation of unavoidable impacts. The Bonner Bridge, which connects Pea and Bodie islands at the Oregon Inlet, is a lifeline for tourism and tropical storm evacuation of the North Carolina northern outer banks—has reached its engineering limits and is slated for replacement. The least impact estimated from the new bridge alignment still requires the recovery of no less than 1.28 acres of highly productive seagrasses (eelgrass [Zostera marina] and shoalgrass [Halodule wrightii]).

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