This application activity will start in 2023 and focus on water mass characteristics, including water transparency (relevant to
the topic of ocean darkening), harmful algal blooms, and more.
Water Quality
Coastal Habitat Mapping
This SeaBee application focuses on developing protocol for habitats in the coastal zone, including seafloor substrate types, subsurface vegetation (such as seagrass, seaweed, and kelp), and other management-relevant species, such as blue mussels, the invasive Pacific oyster, and opportunistic turf algae.
Continue readingMonitoring coastal seal colonies
The fieldwork for SeaBee’s marine mammal application testing starts officially in 2023, but drones have been used to count seals in Norway for the last 5-6 years with a normal (Red Green Blue/RGB) camera.
Continue readingCounting seabird populations
Until now, NINA has been mapping and annotating bird nests, mostly of black-headed gulls, in the Oslofjord. A joint survey with IMR was initially planned in 2020 to conduct fieldwork relating to seabirds and mammals but this was not possible due to COVID-19.
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