Restore and enhance marine ecoystems while supporting local socio-economic activities
Our team and our partners have all the necessary skills to provide a turnkey service to rehabilitate marine biodiversity .
Our approach is to improve the ability of marine infrastructures to host marine life by enhancing their design, construction materials, layout… Through the development of effective habitat features, maritime infrastructures can play an active role in supporting essential ecological functions of the natural system they are included in.
Our solutions contribute to restore key environmental features and processes (hydrodynamics, sediment flow, structural complexity, etc.), which in turn favor rehabilitation of natural habitats. Our solutions can also consist in providing a temporary of definite substitute habitat that will provide key functionnalities for local species and ecosystem services.
Our solutions are inspired by, or based on, engineering ecosystems and their properties, to meet local climate change adaptation challenges. These ecosystems – mangroves, seagrass beds, coral reefs, hermella reefs, oyster reefs, etc. – are highly complex, porous, self-sustaining and adaptable, and provide numerous ecological functions. As such, they combine coastal protection, carbon capture and storage, and the hosting and development of biodiversity.
In all our areas of expertise, we rely on a full range of skills that provides a unique synergy between ecology, engineering and marine construction projects
BIOMIMICRY
We draw inspiration from nature and its essential properties to implement effective approaches adapted to the local context.
LARGE-SCALE INTERVENTION CAPABILITY
Seaboost works on large-scale projects that have a real impact on the environment. For example, we have developed a 500m³ nursery of biomimetic habitats in La Ciotat, and a 7m-high 3D-printed concrete artificial reef in Agde (the highest in the world!).
INNOVATION
Seaboost's engineers and biologists work together on a daily basis to design tailor-made solutions adapted to local ecosystems, such as our submerged reef in the Parc National des Calanques, which reproduces the structure of the site's coralligenous ecosystems.
TURNKEY INTERVENTION
We can support your project from start to finish, from the diagnostic phase through to site surveys, design, choice of materials, sizing, production, installation and follow-up.
Design, sizing, production and deployment of a soft, partially permeable, eco-designed solution inspired by mangroves to fight against erosion while preserving the functioning of large coastal sedimentary cells and supporting ecological features favourable to the installation and development of local life.
Restoration of the ecological functions of coastal ecosystems altered by coastal development and human activities, by proposing a multi-scale innovative solution: port nurseries, eco-designed moorings, eco-designed pontoons, 7 m high massive artificial reef printed in 3D concrete to deport the diving pressure on the coralligenous.
Enhancing the nursery function of the Atlas platform of La Ciotat Shipyards by adding eco-designed devices creating artificial habitats inspired by nature. Design, manufacture and immersion of artificial micro-habitats (Roselières© and Oursins©), Definition of the scientific monitoring (provided by Biotope) of the installed modules. Volume of submerged habitats (external envelope) on a large scale: 500 m3.
Hydrodynamic and Hydro-sedimentary modelling, diagnosis of the carbon sink potential of the restored seagrass, co construction of solutions with the territorial actors, deployment of various demonstrators to prevent the Zostera seagrass from hydrodynamic pressure in the Arcachon Basin.
Assessment of the health or natural and artificial coral reefs, design of innovative project to tackle coral restoration and ecosystem services production, in coherence with the local communities expectations and the climate change pressure.
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