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- Workshop Article:
Green et al.
… publicly available resources and with advisory group input. The workshop covered three marine life breakout groups on subsequent days to discuss research recommendations related to 1) marine mammals and sea turtles, 2) fish and invertebrates, and 3) birds and bats. As part of the … Mammals and Sea Turtles Exposure and Risk Analysis. Greater baseline understanding of marine mammal and sea turtle habitat use and residency is needed to inform exposure and risk to the …
- Report:
Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council
… Water Properties, Currents, and Waves by David S. Ullman and Daniel L. Codiga Benthic Habitat Distribution and Subsurface Geology in Selected Sites from the Rhode Island Ocean Special Area … Island Sounds by Scott Nixon, Stephen Granger, Candace Oviatt, Lindsey Fields, Jeff Mercer Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles of Narragansett Bay, Block Island Sound, Rhode Island Sound, and … R. Grilli, Tania Lado, and Malcolm Spaulding The Nature Conservancy’s Northwest Atlantic Marine Ecoregional Assessment: Implications for the Rhode Island Ocean SAMP Region by Kevin …
- Report:
AECOM
… an onshore transformer substation, and buried power lines connecting to the local power distribution system (the Project). This Project is subject to a screening level Environmental … km from shore. The generators (with the possible exception of the Minas Basin Pulp and Power/ Marine Current Turbines unit) will be installed on gravity bases, rather than drilled … is rated to 1 MW and the total diameter is 10 m with a 4 m diameter open centre. The MBP&P/Marine Current Turbine unit is 1.0 - 1.2 MW and will consist of twin axial flow rotors …
- Report:
Degraer et al.
… wind farm project. This imposes a monitoring programme to assess the potential impacts on the marine environment. These assessments enable the authorities to impose mitigation measures or even halt the activities in case of extreme damage to the marine ecosystem. The monitoring programme equally allows understanding and evaluating the … will aid a future accurate bird mortality assessment. Future monitoring of the local seabird distribution will further increase the likelihood of displacement effect detection and will allow …
- Journal Article:
Zhang et al.
… farm datasets are commercially available via energy industries, records of the exact spatial distribution of individual wind turbines and their construction trajectories are rather … threshold algorithm in the Google Earth Engine platform to identify the spatiotemporal distribution of global OWTs. By 2019, 6,924 wind turbines were constructed in 14 coastal nations. … could further our understanding of the environmental impact of OWTs and support effective marine spatial planning for sustainable development. … 2021-07-27 …
- Thesis:
Evert
… The human presence in the worlds’ oceans is increasing, in response to the growing demand for marine resources. This expansion of human activities will increase pressure on marine ecosystems and demands a responsible ocean management, to ensure the sustainable use of … We found that areas of high impact were strongly influenced by seasonal variations in the distribution of cetaceans. In this case study, we identified an area of high impact in the …
- Report:
Piet et al.
… of offshore wind energy. The objectives of this study are to evaluate for the North Sea marine ecosystem the knowledge base to assess the cumulative impacts of all the main human … we discuss the possibilities to apply CIA in the context of an ecosystem-based approach to marine spatial planning aimed at achieving existing environmental marine policy goals. This report provides an overview of the state-of-the-art knowledge to assess …
- Journal Article:
Serpetti et al.
… Aquaculture and marine renewable energy are two expanding sectors of the Blue Economy in Europe. Assessing the … of eutrophication and noise is a priority for both the EU Water Framework Directive and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, and cumulative impacts will be important for the Maritime … evaluated the following specific ecosystem responses: (i) top-down control pathways due to distribution changes among top-predators (harbor porpoise, gadoids and seabirds) driven by …
- Conference Paper:
Li et al.
… is known as clean, renewable energy in the global energy field with broad prospects. Its wide distribution, enormous content and high quality enable the wave energy to possess tremendous …
- Report:
Offshore Renewables Joint Industry Programme (ORJIP)
… collaborate to evaluate scientific evidence on the potential environmental effects of marine renewable energy development, to assist with permitting, and allow increased and … It presents the best available scientific evidence on the potential environmental effects of marine renewable energy development. This document complements and builds on the Forward Look and … interactions between mobile species and tidal stream turbines. Occupancy patterns, fine-scale distribution and behaviour of mobile species in wave and tidal stream habitats. Far-field …
- Report:
Degraer et al.
… Insights into the nature and magnitude of the impact of offshore wind on the marine ecosystem are becoming ever more pressing given the anticipated tenfold expansion of … zone for offshore renewable energy – the Princess Elisabeth Zone – has been designated in the marine spatial plan 2020-2026 and is anticipating an installed capacity ranging between 3.15 and … expansion in the Belgian part of the North Sea, by touching upon new insights into (1) spatial distribution patterns (epibenthos, hyperbenthos and fish of sandy bottoms) and the identification …
- Journal Article:
Berman-Kowalewski et al.
Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) are distributed worldwide, and although severely depleted by commercial whaling, their abundance off the California coast now appears to be increasing. Little is known about natural causes of mortality of blue whales, but human-related mortality continues despite legal protection. Ship strikes are a significant mortality factor for other species of…
- Report:
Hutchison et al.
… assemblage structure, and biomass), surficial sediment characteristics (e.g., particle size distribution, organic content), and relationship dynamics between macrofaunal communities and … were analyzed in the laboratory for macrofaunal community characteristics, sediment grain size distribution, total organic matter, and total organic content. Seabed video accompanying each …
- Report:
Barkaszi et al.
The objective of this study was to characterize the risk of vessel strikes on large whales and sea turtles from different vessel types that operate in support of the current leased and unleased OCS wind energy areas (“wind farms”) in the Atlantic and to develop a model that accounts for geospatial, temporal, and species-specific parameters in the vessel operations area for these wind energy…
- Workshop Article:
Wildlife Conservation Society
… (visual surveys and environmental data) to establish a baseline understanding of cetacean distribution and interaction with environmental variables in the NYB. All participants supported …
- Report:
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
… Cited Appendix L : Glossary Appendix M : List of Preparers and Reviewers Appendix N : Distribution List Appendix O : Public Comments and Responses on the Draft Environmental Impact …
- Report:
New York Department of State
New York State’s Department of State (DOS) has completed a two-year study to generate and assemble the most comprehensive dataset of physical, biological, geographic, and socioeconomic information available for the Atlantic Ocean waters offshore New York State. New Yorkers rely on the ocean for a wide range of economic activities. Over two-thirds of all New Yorkers live in counties that…
- Report:
California State Lands Commission
… transmission line connecting the proposed new substation to Substation N for electricity distribution to VSFB. IDEOL also proposes to connect to the CAISO power grid; additional … Gas Emissions Hydrology, Water Quality, and Coastal Processes Biological Resources – Marine Land Use and Planning Biological Resources – Terrestrial Noise Cultural Resources …
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