About
An independent research organisation.
Around 400 staff work across a central campus, a records annex and three regional monitoring stations. Our facilities operate under safety and confidentiality standards agreed with each partner.
How we work
Meridian takes on long projects that need patient measurement: mapping spaces nobody can enter, proving that a seal will hold for fifty years, listening to a hillside for a decade. Results are shared with partners first and published where agreements allow.
Every record we produce is kept. The Records Annex holds paper going back to our founding, and a digitisation programme is making it available to staff through the staff portal.
Timeline
- 1987
- Founded as an independent acoustics laboratory with eleven staff.
- 1998
- Central campus and Records Annex open.
- 2009
- Materials & Containment division established.
- 2023
- Acoustic Mapping Programme begins annual field seasons.
- 2026
- Third regional monitoring station commissioned.