CSA, founded in 1970 as a marine environmental consulting firm, specializes in multidisciplinary projects concerning potential environmental impacts of activities in coastal and marine ecosystems and offers a wide variety of desktop and field survey services to support our clients worldwide.
CSA has successfully conducted thousands of studies for more than 600 clients in 79 countries, including nearly 60 in the Tropics. Our nearly five decades of experience in marine studies from local rivers to the deep ocean includes sampling, monitoring, mapping, permitting, baseline surveys, impact assessment, and mitigation. CSA is headquartered in Stuart, Florida with domestic branch offices in Tampa, Florida; Houston, Texas; and Houma, Louisiana as well as international offices in Brazil, Trinidad, Qatar, Western Australia, and the Eastern Mediterranean. As members of TRACE International, CSA is committed to the ethical conduct of business in our activities and those of our partners.
The CSA team is composed of leaders in research and the environmental consulting industry with specialties in water quality monitoring, water and sediment sampling, deep water imaging, sampling design, statistical analysis, protected species assessments, habitat characterization, monitoring studies, impact assessments, environmental permitting, and land and hydrographic surveying.
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An Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) is a useful tool to evaluate the likelihood that the ecology of an area (ranging from organismal to whole communities, including human) will be impacted from exposure to project-related stressors in addition to other natural and anthropogenic stressors. Stressors may…
June 23rd, 2021
CSA ichthyologist David B. Snyder has lately been sharing a “Fish Blog” with insightful and entertaining fish tales accompanied by dazzling underwater photographs captured during his prolific diving career and sojourns. This blog recognizes David’s contribution to the new book “Islands in the Sand: Ecology…
May 5th, 2021
Mr. Eddie Hughes is a project scientist who has been with CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA) for 15 years. He is one of CSA’s research divers and has been involved in a wide variety of nearshore and offshore domestic and international projects. Over the last…
April 30th, 2021
The United States Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) developed the Engineering With Nature (EWN) initiative to "efficiently and sustainably deliver economic, environmental and social benefits through the use of natural systems." EWN programs and projects intentionally align natural and engineering processes. "Engineering With Nature: An…
April 30th, 2021
CSA marine biologist Chip Baumberger performs nearshore hard-bottom mapping off Sebastian, Florida, in June 2020. Each summer, the Ports and Coastal Sciences group of CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA) performs the majority of their scientific dive surveys in Florida to coincide with the primary growing…
February 11th, 2021