CD52A:
Ocean Renewable Energy: Resource Characterization, Environmental Impacts, and Societal Interactions III


Session ID#: 37711

Session Description:
The ocean represents a vast and largely untapped renewable energy resource that could be harnessed to support sustainable development while reducing carbon emissions. However, much research is required within the oceanographic community, in collaboration with other disciplines, to characterize ocean resources, and to assess the environmental impacts of ocean renewable energy systems. This session seeks contributions spanning a broad range of topics related to ocean renewable energy (offshore wind, wave, ocean current, tidal) research such as resource assessment, instrumentation, feedbacks between power extraction and the resource, and optimization at array or regional scales.

Contributions regarding potential environmental impacts (physical/biological), and societal interactions (e.g., social acceptance) are also invited. For instance, research methods, plans, and results from global investigations into field techniques, statistical modeling, and integrative mapping used to assess the impacts of offshore renewable energy system on presence, distribution, migration, dispersal, and/or abundance of marine species at local and regional scales. We also invite reports of research into the potential or existing effects such as the presence of artificial habitat, noise, electromagnetic field emission, and species barrier or displacement, at specific sites in the marine environment.

Primary Chair:  M Reza Hashemi, University of Rhode Island, Department of Ocean Engineering, Narragansett, RI, United States
Co-chairs:  Simon P Neill, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom, Zhaoqing Yang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Jeremy Potter, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of the Interior, Camarillo, CA, United States
Moderators:  James Henry Miller, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Crowmarsh Gifford, United Kingdom and Matt James Lewis, Bangor University, Bangor, LL59, United Kingdom
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Matt James Lewis, Bangor University, Bangor, LL59, United Kingdom and Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States
Index Terms:

4247 Marine meteorology [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4534 Hydrodynamic modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4560 Surface waves and tides [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Underwater acoustic measurements of the construction and operation of the Block Island Wind Farm (308986)
James Henry Miller1, Gopu R. Potty1, Ying-tsong Lin2, Arthur E Newhall3, Kathleen J. Vigness-Raposa4, Adam S. Frankel4, Jennifer Amaral4 and Tim Mason5, (1)University of Rhode Island, Department of Ocean Engineering, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)Marine Acoustics, Inc., 2 Corporate Place, Suite 105, Middletown, RI, United States, (5)Subacoustech Environmental Ltd., Chase Mill, Winchester Road, Bishops Waltham, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Utilization of a Regional Ocean Observing Network and Regional Atmospheric Modeling for Offshore Wind Resource Assessment (318010)
Joseph F Brodie1, Rich Dunk2, Gregory N Seroka3, Travis N Miles1, Joshua Livingston Coupe4, Louis Anthony Bowers1, Charles Sage Lichtenwalner1, Hugh Roarty1, Michael F Crowley1, Laura J Nazzaro1, Josh T Kohut1 and Scott M Glenn1, (1)Rutgers University, Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)AquaWind, LLC, Little Egg Harbor Twp, NJ, United States, (3)NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Ocean Prediction Center, College Park, MD, United States, (4)Rutgers University, Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Environmental Effects of Marine Renewable Energy Development – How Do We Determine What Matters? (315833)
Andrea E Copping and Genevra Harker-Klimes, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Coastal Division, Seattle, WA, United States
U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management: Facilitating environmentally and economically responsible offshore renewable energy development (A Pacific Focus) (323240)
Jeremy Potter, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of the Interior, Camarillo, CA, United States
Geographically specific life cycle assessment of electricity from tidal turbines in the United States (322594)
Breck Maura Sullivan1, Marie-Odile Payne Fortier2 and Robert W Malmsheimer2, (1)SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States, (2)SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Forest and Natural Resources Management, Syracuse, NY, United States
Simulating the Coastal Impact of Wave Farms Using a New Phase-resolving Wave Model (310025)
Dirk Rijnsdorp1, Jeff Hansen1 and Ryan Lowe2, (1)The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, (2)The University of Western Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Australia
Testing Marine Mammal Soft Tissue to Understand Injury Risk from Tidal Turbine Collision (318861)
Molly Elissa Grear, University of Washington Seattle, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States and Michael R Motley, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

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