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Cefas: Centre for Environment, Fisheries
and Aquaculture Science
Executive Agency of the UK Department of
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Operated on a Commercial business model
Successfully tendering for projects
Cefas: Centre for Environment, Fisheries
and Aquaculture Science
Purpose:
• UK Government's foremost source of marine evidence and
applied science
• Founded on ability to integrate a uniquely comprehensive
national capability
• Working for non-UK Government’s and private sector clients:
– provides valuable knowledge and industry insight
– diversifies our income
– maintains and strengthens our capability
Cefas Facts
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Established over 100 years
Annual turnover of > £55M
540 professional staff
Large supply chain of trusted
expert sub-contractors
Two UK laboratories + research
vessel
Projects in more than 40
countries
>160 peer reviewed papers each
year
Strong safety culture and
performance
RV Endeavour
The 2 main Cefas Laboratories
Lowestoft:
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fisheries management and bi-catch reduction
habitat mapping and baseline assessment
environmental research, monitoring, and impact
assessment
coastal and marine ecosystem processes
coastal processes and ecosystem modeling
regulatory advice for coastal and marine
developments
collection of MetOcean data
environmental data management and systems
(Radio)chemical analysis and advice
ecotoxicological analysis and advice
Weymouth:
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research and advice for fish health
aquatic disease diagnosis
Lowestoft
fish and shellfish hygiene
EU RL for crustacean disease and bivalve
London
microbiology
harmful algal blooms (HABs)
Weymouth
aquaculture
Marine monitoring
• Data, evidence and advice to support decision-making on
marine resources and activities (planning, licensing or
protection)
• Tools: IT systems, autonomous platforms, acoustic mapping
devices and data-sharing initiatives
• Types of monitoring (sediment to entire water column):
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Range of moored and autonomous mobile devices.
Collection of physical, chemical and biological samples.
Real-time or post deployment data delivery
Systems fully quality assured
Our unique capabilities
Moored devices include Wave
riders, SmartBuoys for
eutrophication studies, deep
water and shelf seas moorings
as well as seabed mounted
frames.
Autonomous devices include
surface wavegliders, drifting
Argos buoys as well as Iridium
buoys for tracking Oil or
Chemical spills.
See WaveNet – www.cefas.defra.gov.uk/wavenet
Our unique capabilities
Marine Litter Monitoring
Distribution, Type and Quantities of Marine Litter
Clean Seas Environmental
Monitoring Programme (CSEMP)
plastic
To detect long-term trends in
contaminants
1%
6%
sanitary waste
6%
5%
metals
6%
0%
rubber
76%
glass/ceramics
natural products
miscellaneous
MICRO
MACRO
Regulatory Advisory Services
Providing independent scientific / technical advice on a
applications for marine and coastal development to support
regulatory decision making:
• environmental risks associated with a development
application are identified
• the application and its supporting studies provide sufficient
evidence to back up the prediction of impact
• the application has scientifically robust information upon
which Regulators can make a decision
Harmful Algal Blooms
• Global problem with harmful algal
blooms (HABs) linked to human
poisoning and fish and shellfish kills
• Potentially impacts on human health,
aquaculture industries, recreational use
of waters and desalination plants
• Exacting legislative monitoring
requirement within Europe
• Risk management to help predict and
manage the HABs
• New biotoxins regularly identified
Our unique capabilities
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Co-ordination & delivery of UK programmes for over 10 years, including
supporting the UK Food Standards Agency
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Over 25 HAB experts and technical scientists
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ISO 17025:2005 accredited laboratories for biotoxin and phytoplankton
testing with fully validated methods
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Commercial provision of shellfish testing and reference materials
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International relationships with more than 30 countries
and high impact publication record
Marine emergency response
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24/7 Advice
Spill Modelling
Post-incident Environmental Monitoring
Emergency Scenarios planning
Chemical (HNS) Risk Assessment
Spill Treatment options
Cefas Spill Model
Beaching
Napoli
Particles
• Typical results (shown within a GIS) for Napoli (12th Feb)
Fri 12th,
36 hours,
SG 0.5,
2500
points,
real winds
Ecotoxicology
• State of the art GLP compliant
• Acute and chronic testing in a
wide range of marine and
freshwater species
• Full suite of temperature
controlled rooms, including
controlled seawater, freshwater
and lighting
• Static, semi-static or flow
through tests dependant on
requirement.
Radiological services
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Environmental monitoring
Radiological impact assessments and modelling
Assessment of contaminated land
Radiological habits surveys
Emergency response (mobile monitoring unit)
Gamma spectrometry analysis
Radiochemical analysis (alpha and beta counting)
Dedicated sample preparation facilities
Risk assessment
Our unique capabilities
Over 30 experienced scientists
dedicated to radiological protection
services.
Managing environmental radiological
risks
Designing and implementing
environmental monitoring
programmes
Comprehensive radioanalytical service
International help and advice.
Internationally recognised and market
leader in the UK for providing
independent environmental
radiological monitoring and
assessment.
Global client base
Advisor to UK Government on Fukushima incident
State-of-the-art facilities
UKAS Accredited (International Standard; ISO 17025)
Chemistry & analytical services
• Recognised UK leader in the provision
of a wide range of reliable, quality
assured analytical chemistry services
• Provision of evidence and advice to
governments and international bodies
• UKAS accredited to ISO/IEC 17025
• Focus on contaminants at trace/ultratrace levels and nutrients in various
marine compartments
• Typical contaminants include PAHs,
PCBs, trace elements, organotins, flame
retardants, organochlorine pesticides,
pharmaceuticals, perfluorinated
compounds, etc..
Analytical Chemistry Resources
• State of the art
analytical equipment
(GC-)ICP-MS
ICP-OES
GC-MS & GC-MS/MS
GC-ECD
GC-FPD
UPLC-MS/MS
LC-UV
UPLC-QqQ-MS
Activities: Monitoring
– Clean Seas Environment
Monitoring Programme
(CSEMP)
• Analysis of marine sediment and fish
• Data reported to OSPAR/Merman –
following OSPAR guidelines on
LODs and QC
• Quasimeme
• Significant contribution to the
Aquatic Environment Monitoring
Report (AEMR)
Activities: Monitoring
– Disposal sites at sea
• Monitoring of sediment around
dredge disposal sites
• Reported annually
• Conducted to same standards
as CSEMP
Activities: Monitoring
– POPs in marine
mammals
• Funded under CSIP
(Cetacean Stranding
Investigation Program)
since 1980s
• Other commercial
contracts with IoZ,
SAC, Leeds University
etc
From Jepson et al, in Preparation
Activities: Monitoring
– Decamonitoring project:
Flame retardants in
sediments and bird eggs
• 10 year industry funded project
which ended in 2013
• Looked at trends of levels of
flame retardants in the
environment
Activities: Monitoring
– Pharmaceuticals in water
• Commercial contract with a water
company
• Repeating annual contract analysing
water and passive samplers
– Dioxins in sediments
• Commercial contract with UK Oil and
Gas Industry
• Method also developed for biota
• LODs/QC as per WFD EQS
Activities: Regulatory
– Disposal of dredge materials
at sea (FEPA licensing)
• Contracted by industry via MMO to
analyse prospective dredge
material
• LODs as per MMO guidelines
(following OSPAR)
• Quasimeme
• Accreditation required (17025)
Activities: Emergency response
– MSC Napoli
– Recent polyisobutene
event in English
Channel
Activities: Research
– Analytical method
development
• hydrazine analysis
– Link to BEEMS project
• dioxins and perfluorinated
chemicals analysis
– To facilitate future monitoring
for CSEMP and MSFD
Activities: Research
– Analytical support
• Chemical analyses from lab
studies (for both Lowestoft
and Weymouth)
• GLP bioaccumulation
studies
Activities: Research
– Emerging compounds
• Apply newly-developed
methods to conduct
investigative surveys
• Typically look in marine
mammals (high up of food
chain) or sediments
• To identify emerging
threats to the UK marine
environment
Activities: Research
– Survey of cadmium in
brown crab meat
• Food Standards Agency
(FSA) funded
• To provide baseline
information for
consumption advice, to
satisfy an EC
recommendation
Activities: Research
– Passive samplers
• Smartbuoy
deployments
• Ferrybox system
• DGT in sediments
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