The complex demands placed on our natural resources may result in changes to ecosystems. As a result, environmental problems arise that require creative and effective solutions. For the past 35 years, Kinnetic Laboratories has proven our ability to plan, implement, and conduct comprehensive biological and ecological studies that studies that encompass a diversity of biological regimes. Studies address both existing and potential future impacts to ecosystems as a result of natural and man-induced alterations to the environment.
Kinnetic Laboratories staff biologists have designed and implemented numerous field studies including identifying bird populations as components of an Arctic ecosystem and studies of rare and endangered species in California.
The need to understand marine ecosystems is extremely important to managers and planners concerned with integrating resource utilization and conservation. Kinnetic Laboratories offers consulting services that range from monitoring the impacts of offshore drilling operations to understanding the dynamics of benthic and intertidal communities.
Kinnetic laboratories services in this field include:
- Hard and soft bottom benthic surveys.
- Rocky intertidal ecological studies including recolonization and habitat recovery.
- State-of-the-art deep sea Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) photoquadrat sampling.
- Studies of bioaccumulation of toxic substances in marine and freshwater organisms and vegetation.
- Fish migration, life-history, and population baseline studies.
- Marine mammal surveys.
- Biological assessments of rare, threatened, and endangered species.
- Impact studies, including National Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) for petroleum product and hazardous chemical spills.
- Ecological Risk Assessments.
Kinnetic Laboratories maintains an in-house laboratory specialxinf in aquatic flora and fauna.
- Aquatic species identification, recognized taxonomists.
- Extensive reference collections.
- Taxonomy of fish, aquatic invertebrates, and algae.
- Database management and analytical software.
- Photoquadrat analysis and data management system utilizing error checking software.
Kinnetic Laboratories and associates offer expertise in the area of freshwater and terrestrial biology.
- Freshwater fisheries ecology.
- Aquatic habitat evaluation.
- Vegetation and wetlands surveys.
- Bird and wildlife surveys.
- Aerial photo interpretation.
- In-stream flow studies, Bioassessments
- Estuarine surveys.
- Watershed studies
