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Bathymetric Surveying of Underwater Topography
Affiliated Researchers provides accurate bathymetric surveying of water depth contours in marine, estuarine, lake, and stream environments with proven methods and technology. Utilizing advanced hydrographic software and survey-grade GPS, Affiliated Researchers produces precise bathymetric mapping products that are invaluable to resource management programs or engineering projects.

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Fishery Management Services
Affiliated Researchers offers professional environmental consulting services in fishery management to include:
- fishery population status studies
- fishery population dynamics studies
- fishery forage base studies
- fishery habitat inventory, mapping, and enhancement programs
- water quality status and monitoring
- fishery planting and monitoring programs
- invasive species inventory and mapping
- Bathymetric Surveying of Streams

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Biological Assessments, Threatened & Endangered Species
Affiliated Researchers offers professional environmental assessment and inventory of plant communities, animal habitat, and threatened and endangered species.

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Water Quality Mapping
and Watershed Management
Utilizing an integrated system of centimeter accurate real-time GPS, and multi-parameter water quality monitoring field instruments, Affiliated Researchers collects thousands of data points detailing the exact location and concentration of multiple water quality parameters and indicators.
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Environmental Planning, Project Planning and Mitigation Development
Affiliated Researchers recognizes that the process of environmental permitting requires a thorough understanding of both the environmental laws and the regulatory agency policies. Environmental planning plays a vital role in achieving a successful project.

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Wetland Delineation and Mitigation
Affiliated Researchers offers certified, professional wetland consulting services in wetland determinations and delineations. Since 1990, Affiliated Researchers has provided wetland services to land owners, municipalities, engineering firm, law firms, and and land developers.
“Part of the team – I don’t know what we would have done without them.” - Mr. Dean Johnston, Cherryview Development
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GIS-GPS Services
GPS and GIS mapping services to a wide array of interest to include local, state & federal government, land developers, engineering firms, conservation groups, and research organizations.

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Aquatic Temperature Mapping of
Streams, Lakes, Estuaries, and Marine Environments
This service provides detailed mapping and accurate quantification of "critical elements" of fish habitat (i.e. thermal refugia), derived from tens of thousands of real-time empirical data
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Aquatic Substrate, Sediment Definition & Mapping
Affiliated Researchers has integrated the state-of-the-art technologies of real-time survey grade RTK-GPS (with real-time centimeter accuracies), underwater laser metering, phased-array side-scanning sonar, high resolution digital underwater color photogrametry, and powerful 3D visualizing software to provide precise definition of sediment size and detailed mapping of aquatic substrates.

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GPS-enabled Coral Reef Baseline Assessments and Monitoring
Affiliated Researchers has integrated the cutting edge GPS-enabled technologies with survey grade GPS (real-time centimeter accuracies), multibeam and sidescan sonars, water quality sensors, digital underwater photogrammetry, and powerful hydrographic and seabed classification softwares to provide precise measuring and accurate documentation of coral reef environments.

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Tree Inventories in Forest Environments
Our tree inventories in forest environments can be a critical part of an effective resource management program by providing an inventory of each specified tree according to size and/or species. A detailed catalog of physical parameters such as health, condition, height, board-feet, infestation, etc can be readily accomplished. The sub-meter GPS data can be exported to ArcView , MapInfo, Excel, Access, and/or AutoCAD formats for GIS or forestry applications.

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Planning, Permitting, and Sediment Testing for Dredging of Lakes, Ponds, and Waterways
Dredging of accumulated sediments is sometimes needed to restore a declining fishery or the recreational usage of a lake or pond. Dredging is also sometimes needed to reclaim navigable waterways (river, canal, or channel) or to restore adequate drainage. Affiliated Researchers offers environmental planning, permitting, and sediment testing services to assist in the reclamation or restoration dredging of lakes, ponds, and waterways.
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