HI53A:
Marine Renewable Energy: Resource Characterization, Environmental Impacts, and Societal Interactions III


Session ID#: 11386

Session Description:
The ocean represents a vast and largely untapped energy resource, which could be exploited as a form of low carbon electricity generation, and there is much research within the oceanographic community into resource characterization and environmental impacts. We seek contributions spanning a broad range of topics related to marine renewable energy, including wind, wave, ocean current and tidal resource assessment (and wave-tide interactions) over timescales ranging from semi-diurnal to decadal, and feedbacks between electricity generation and the resource at both device and array scale. This session is designed to gather and relate research methods, plans, and results from global investigations into field techniques, statistical modeling, and integrative mapping used to assess the presence, distribution, migration, dispersal, and/or abundance of species (seabirds, marine mammals, fish, sea turtles, and decapod crustacean) most likely affected by offshore renewable energy. The session will also include studies of physical impacts (e.g. impacts on sedimentary systems), and societal interactions. We also invite reports of research into potential or existing effects due to novel aspects of offshore renewable energy structures, such as the presence of artificial habitat, noise, electromagnetic field emission, and species barrier or displacement, as well as observational or modeling methodologies.
Primary Chair:  Simon P Neill, Bangor University, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor, LL59, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Ann Scarborough Bull, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of the Interior, Camarillo, CA, United States, Zhaoqing Yang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and M Reza Hashemi, University of Rhode Island, Department of Ocean Engineering, Narragansett, RI, United States
Moderators:  Ann Scarborough Bull, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of the Interior, Camarillo, CA, United States, Simon P Neill, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom, Zhaoqing Yang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and M Reza Hashemi, University of Rhode Island, Department of Ocean Engineering, Narragansett, RI, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Ann Scarborough Bull, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of the Interior, Camarillo, CA, United States
Index Terms:

4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4534 Hydrodynamic modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4558 Sediment transport [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4560 Surface waves and tides [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EC - Estuarine and Coastal
  • IS - Instrumentation & Sensing Technologies
  • ME - Marine Ecosystems
  • PO - Physical Oceanography/Ocean Circulation

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

HI53A-01
Evaluating Effects of Marine Energy Devices on the Marine Environment – A Risk-Based and In-Water Testing Approach (92682)
Genevra Harker-Klimes1,2 and Andrea E Copping1, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Coastal Division, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)The Oceanography Society, WA, United States
HI53A-03
Collecting and Analyzing At-Sea and Coastal Avian Data to Assess Potential Effects of Offshore Renewable Energy Development (93232)
David Michael Pereksta, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Environmental Sciences Section, Camarillo, CA, United States
HI53A-04
Lesson learned from monitoring the environmental effects of construction of the first offshore wind farm in the US (93122)
James Miller1, Gopu R. Potty2, John W King3, Dennis R. Gallien4, Anwar A Khan5, Kathleen J. Vigness-Raposa6, Jennifer L. Giard6, Adam S. Frankel6, Tim Mason7, Arthur N. Popper8, Anthony D. Hawkins9 and Steven E. Crocker10, (1)University of Rhode Island, Ocean Engineering, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)University of Rhode Island, Department of Ocean Engineering, Narragansett, RI, United States, (3)Univ Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, (4)HDR, Inc., 300 North Madison Street, Athens, AL, United States, (5)HDR, Inc., Athens, AL, United States, (6)Marine Acoustics, Inc., 2 Corporate Place, Suite 105, Middletown, RI, United States, (7)Subacoustech Environmental Ltd., Chase Mill, Winchester Road, Bishops Waltham, Hampshire, United Kingdom, (8)University of Maryland, Dept. of Biology, 2225 BPS, College Park, MD, United States, (9)Loughine Ltd., Kincraig, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (10)Naval Undersea Warfare Center - Newport, 1176 Howell Street, Newport, RI, United States
HI53A-05
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion: The Potential Impact of Bottom Water Discharge at Subsurface on Microphytoplankton in the Caribbean Sea (92992)
Denis de la Broise1, Mélanie Giraud2, Veronique Garcon3 and Marie Boye1, (1)IUEM Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, LEMAR, Plouzané, France, (2)France Energie Marine, BREST, France, (3)LEGOS/UMR 5566, TOULOUSE, France
HI53A-06
Does EMF Emitted from In Situ Subsea Power Cables Affect the Composition of Deep Benthic Fish and Invertebrate Communities? (87904)
Mary Nishimoto1, Milton Love1, Ann Scarborough Bull2 and Donna M Schroeder3, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of the Interior, Camarillo, CA, United States, (3)U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Camarillo, CA, United States
HI53A-07
Impacts of an underwater high voltage DC power cable on fish migration movements in the San Francisco Bay. (88865)
Megan Tompkins Wyman1, Rob Kavet2 and A Peter Klimley1, (1)University of California, Davis, Dept. of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, Davis, CA, United States, (2)Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, United States
HI53A-08
POTENTIAL IMPACT OF SUBMARINE POWER CABLES ON CRAB HARVEST (86894)
Ann Scarborough Bull, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of the Interior, Camarillo, CA, United States and Mary Nishimoto, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
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