Shoal’s Edge Consulting provides scientific expertise and technical editing in support of the following topic areas:

Oil Spill Risk/Impact Analysis

• Oil spill transport modeling
• Assessment of oil spill risk
• Evaluation of oil spill impacts
• Development of risk indices
• Natural Resource Damage Assessments (NRDAs)

Environmental Sensitivity Analysis and Marine Spatial Planning

• Environmental vulnerability/sensitivity analyses
• Development of indices of relative risk for habitats and species
• Analyses of ecological value
• Development of software tools for marine spatial planning, facility siting, risk indices, and sensitivity analyses

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Support/Environmental Permitting

• Environmental Impact Statements/Environmental Assessments
• Construction and Operations Plans
• Protected species issues (Threatened & Endangered species, marine mammals)
• Marine resource issues
• Endangered Species Act Section 7 consultations
• Essential Fish Habitat Assessments
• Feasibility and siting studies
• Terrestrial/marine field study design/management
• Federal and state environmental permit applications

Marine Fisheries Science/Marine Biology

• Fish stock assessment
• Population dynamics
• Fisheries capacity building
• Stakeholder engagement
• Field study design/management
• Fishing gear technology
• Ecological modeling