McGregor GeoScience provides a full range of marine environmental services including sampling, processing, interpreting and reporting to meet the needs of clients operating in both far offshore and coastal arenas. With our extensive suite of sampling and imaging tools, McGregor is able to efficiently design, plan and execute environmental surveys in some of the most demanding environments on the globe, including the high Arctic. Through the integration of acoustic survey and geophysical techniques with biological and physico-chemistry data collection, we conduct environmental baseline studies and generate benthic habitat mapping products for a variety of project applications. The implementation of best practices allows us to meet or exceed regulatory requirements and further the understanding of complex marine ecosystems.
McGregor owns a suite of seabed sampling and imaging tools including gravity corers, box corers and several types of grabs suited for collection of seafloor samples from a variety of substrates. We augment these samples with a variety of other data including multi-parameter CTD, deep-sea camera/video drops and tow imagery and multiple depth water samples. On-board auto-sievers are used for ease of sample washing and separation.
On Site Benthic Laboratory
Our new benthic laboratory is well equipped to undertake all stages of infauna analysis from sample processing and faunal extraction to species identification. All work is carried out by our in-house taxonomists and marine biologists. McGregor is moving toward international quality control schemes, following best practices established by leaders in the field. Our state of the art computer facilities and various data handling and analytical packages are based on and include the industry standard PRIMER. Although relatively new to the science, McGregor has already built comprehensive benthic reference collections and image data bases, especially for Northern areas, which are used to verify identifications.