STUART, FLORIDA - CSA Ocean Sciences Inc., a marine environmental consulting firm that specializes in multidisciplinary projects concerning potential impacts of activities in coastal and marine ecosystems, today announced that Dr. Teresa Thorpe has joined the Team at CSA’s headquarters in Stuart, Florida, as the new Proposal Coordinator. Dr. Thorpe will take charge of managing and coordinating all aspects of CSA’s proposal efforts and provide technical and scientific editing support for the diverse studies produced by CSA scientists.

Dr. Thorpe comes to CSA with an extensive background in all aspects of proposal and project management. After completing her studies at King’s College, London, she was the Senior Biologist with a team from the University of Surrey, UK, that developed a water quality management strategy for small island resources in the Caribbean for the Overseas Development Agency. She then spent 14 years as a Research Biologist at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where she developed proposals and acquired government and non-government funding to conduct commercial and recreational fisheries-based research. Dr. Thorpe relocated to Florida in 2011, where she garnered extensive experience as a Science Editor, conducting technical and scientific editing and peer reviews for manuscript journal submissions.

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CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA) is utilizing advance echosounder technology to examine sewage outfalls off the north coast of Puerto Rico, and has proven quite successful in terms of letting researchers “visualize” what’s going on.

Since 1999, CSA has performed comprehensive environmental monitoring for the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) as a subcontractor to CH2M to evaluate compliance with receiving water quality standards and describe environmental conditions around six offshore submarine discharges. Typical studies conducted by CSA and CH2M during the past 14 years include mixing zone studies, sediment sampling and testing, measurement of water column properties such as pH, dissolved oxygen, and currents, and water quality sampling of influent, effluent, and receiving water.

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CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA), a marine environmental consulting firm specializing in spatial data collection, analysis, and management, is featured in Water: An Atlas, a map collection published by the non-profit group Guerilla Cartography. The group uses cartography and collaboration to tell stories about global issues. Water: An Atlas can be viewed online at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xln-2WdkA9WT95dFzYk_WO_JML2Jd-nr/view?usp=sharing.

Two maps in the Atlas are contributions from the CSA Environmental Data and Geospatial Services (EDGS) team, highlighting recent projects in the marine environment: Tampa Bay Hard Bottom Monitoring (Feature 72) and Oil and Gas Environmental Monitoring Offshore Gabon, West Africa (Feature 156).

CSA’s EDGS team integrates Geographic Information System (GIS) tools and techniques in nearly every project we conduct. From data-rich maps to a web-based environmental Common Operating Picture (eCOP), our EDGS products are fundamental to the environmental services we provide clients in the United States and internationally.

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CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA), a marine environmental consulting firm, and HWCG LLC, a consortium of 18 offshore oil and gas operators, collaborated on the design of a deepwater sampling and monitoring equipment program to support the environmental needs of the offshore industry. The equipment program remains containerized, on standby, and ready to be immediately mobilized in the event a deepwater blowout occurs in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

The offshore oil and gas industry requires access to deepwater equipment, instruments, and services to support environmental monitoring for life of field activities, including exploratory drilling, development activities, and production. Equipment and instruments that can probe deepwater areas are highly specialized and require dedicated maintenance, mobilization, and deployment services to ensure utility, safety, and data quality.

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