Company headquarters, microscopy and water quality laboratories are located in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Use of the reference library at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, just five miles away, is maintained on an annual lease basis.

Our work is conducted primarily for major electric utility companies and involves the assessment of the impact of industrial activities on the aquatic environment through biological sampling, sample analysis, and data interpretation. Other areas of company work involve special studies, generally for federal, state, and local governments, concerned with assessing the biological and economic impact of man on the natural environment.

The efforts in our primary fields of endeavor involve quantitative and qualitative assessments of every type of biological population found in fresh, oceanic, coastal, and estuarine waters. These assessments may include, but are not necessarily restricted to, the following parameters and disciplines:

 

Fisheries and anadromous fish run restoration.

Phytoplankton, periphyton, zooplankton, and ichthyoplankton.

Nutrient loading assessment, storm water drainage analysis and management.

Hydrography, flushing studies and water quality.

Wetland delineation and permitting, watershed delineation and permitting.

Resource and land use planning.

Wildlife habitat assessment.

Watershed management, lake and river restoration.

Benthos, mollusks, lobsters, and other invertebrates.

Bacteriology, bioassay, water chemistry.

Sediments, erosion control, hydrogeological surveys, and submarine geology.

316 a and b impact analyses.

Dredging related and other impact analyses related to benthic populations.