Integral Expands SPI Practice, Conducts More Studies for Offshore Energy Industry

Deployment of the SPI–PV camera system.

From Alaska to New Jersey, Integral scientists completed seven, large sediment profile imaging and plan view (SPI–PV) surveys in 2020. Several of these projects will continue into 2021 to support environmental baseline surveys for the growing offshore wind industry, supporting renewable energy initiatives off the East Coast of the United States.

Used to rapidly map broad areas of the seafloor, SPI–PV surveys are a cost-effective way to characterize seafloor conditions. Integral scientists lower the SPI–PV camera system to the seafloor to collect high-resolution images of the bottom of the ocean. With these images, our scientists can observe and measure physical/geochemical features such as grain size, shell lag deposits, and anthropogenic disturbance, as well as biological features like worms, burrows, feeding voids, and epifauna. Results document benthic habitat conditions, aid in the analysis of potential projects impacts on various ocean resources, and are used in reports for approval from regulatory agencies like the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

Learn more about our SPI–PV services.

Integral recently purchased a third state-of-the-art SPI–PV camera system to support our growing technical practice and maintain equipment on both the West and East Coast. For more information about our SPI–PV capabilities, contact Gene Revelas at grevelas@integral-corp.com.