Tethys hosts regular webinars pertaining to topics of environmental concern, as a means to effectively disseminate new information and research efforts to a large international audience of stakeholders. Anyone is welcome to attend these live webinars and participate in a live question and answer session with the presenters. Information for attending these live webinars is distributed to a public mailing list (separate lists for wind and water). Ongoing webinars on Tethys are sponsored by OES-Environmental and WREN.
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Below is a list of past webinars, containing video/audio files of the presentations and Q&A sessions when available.
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Wildlife & Wind Energy Webinar #3 | Wildlife & Wind Energy Webinar Series: Grouse - Considerations for developing wind energy in grouse habitat | September 16, 2020 | The National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Defenders of Wildlife hosted a free, nine-part webinar series, Wildlife & Wind Energy Webinar Series: Considerations for Monitoring and Managing Impacts, between August and November 2020. All webinars were recorded and are available on Tethys. |
Wildlife & Wind Energy Webinar #2 | Wildlife & Wind Energy Webinar Series: Federal and State Perspectives on Environmental Review of Wind Energy and Wildlife | September 1, 2020 | The National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Defenders of Wildlife hosted a free, nine-part webinar series, Wildlife & Wind Energy Webinar Series: Considerations for Monitoring and Managing Impacts, between August and November 2020. All webinars were recorded and are available on Tethys. |
Wildlife & Wind Energy Webinar #1 | Wildlife & Wind Energy Webinar Series: History of wind energy and wildlife interactions and overview of the webinar series | August 28, 2020 | The National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Defenders of Wildlife hosted a free, nine-part webinar series, Wildlife & Wind Energy Webinar Series: Considerations for Monitoring and Managing Impacts, between August and November 2020. All webinars were recorded and are available on Tethys. |
NWCC Webinar #20 | Preliminary Results of Research on Wind Operational Impact Minimization Technologies: DOE-Funded Technology Development and Innovation Projects | August 20, 2020 | U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) researchers present preliminary results of two projects examining early-stage technologies aimed at minimizing the potential impacts of wind turbines on wildlife. |
NWCC Webinar #19 | Updated Wind Energy Development Scenarios in the U.S.: Tools to Understand Potential Wind-Wildlife Interaction | August 18, 2020 | NREL researchers present how intricate considerations are integrated into modeling and analysis to estimate the possible future of wind energy in the United States, and the relationship this has with wildlife. |
OES-Environmental Workshop | OES-Environmental Workshop: Monitoring Datasets Discoverability Matrix | July 21, 2020 | The monitoring datasets discoverability matrix (matrix) is an interactive tool that classifies monitoring datasets from already consented (or permitted) projects for six key environmental stressors. |
WREN Webinar #17 | Experiences from conducting environmental research at land-based and offshore wind energy facilities | July 7, 2020 | The American Wind Wildlife Institute hosted the 17th WREN (Working Together to Resolve Environmental Effects of Wind Energy) webinar entitled, Experiences from conducting environmental research at land-based and offshore wind energy facilities. |
OES-Environmental 2020 State of the Science Chapters Webinars #2 | OES-Environmental State of the Science 2020: Collision Risk and Environmental Monitoring | June 22, 2020 | This public webinar shares the information from several chapters in the 2020 State of the Science Report. |
OES-Environmental 2020 State of the Science Chapters Webinars #1 | OES-Environmental State of the Science 2020: Underwater Noise, EMF, Habitat, Oceanographic Systems, and Mooring Entanglements | June 17, 2020 | This public webinar shares the information from several chapters in the OES-Environmental 2020 State of the Science Report. |
OES-Environmental 2020 State of the Science Public Release | OES-Environmental State of the Science 2020: Public Release | June 11, 2020 | This webinar provides an overview of the information presented in the OES-Environmental 2020 State of the Science Report. |
OES-Environmental & ORJIP International Forum #3 | OES-Environmental & ORJIP International Forum #3: Updates on Monitoring and Research Around Wave Energy Devices | April 23, 2020 | OES-Environmental and ORJIP Ocean Energy invite you to join the first International Forum on MRE Environmental R&D that will present and review the latest in research and monitoring around marine renewable energy (MRE) sites. This forum consists of three different webinars, each running from 8am – 10am PT (3pm – 5pm UTC) on April 21, 22, and 23, 2020. The purpose of the forum is to share the most recent environmental research and monitoring results with a broad audience. |
OES-Environmental & ORJIP International Forum #2 | OES-Environmental & ORJIP International Forum #2: Design and Application of Integrated Monitoring Platforms for Monitoring Around MRE Devices | April 22, 2020 | OES-Environmental and ORJIP Ocean Energy invite you to join the first International Forum on MRE Environmental R&D that will present and review the latest in research and monitoring around marine renewable energy (MRE) sites. This forum consists of three different webinars, each running from 8am – 10am PT (3pm – 5pm UTC) on April 21, 22, and 23, 2020. The purpose of the forum is to share the most recent environmental research and monitoring results with a broad audience. |
OES-Environmental & ORJIP International Forum #1 | OES-Environmental & ORJIP International Forum #1: Updates on Monitoring and Research Around Turbines | April 21, 2020 | OES-Environmental and ORJIP Ocean Energy invite you to join the first International Forum on MRE Environmental R&D that will present and review the latest in research and monitoring around marine renewable energy (MRE) sites. This forum consists of three different webinars, each running from 8am – 10am PT (3pm – 5pm UTC) on April 21, 22, and 23, 2020. The purpose of the forum is to share the most recent environmental research and monitoring results with a broad audience. |
POET Webinar #1 | POET Webinar: Potential Effects of Offshore Renewable Energy - Knowledge and Resources (Part 1: Marine Renewables and Offshore Wind) | April 15, 2020 | The Pacific Ocean Energy Trust (POET) is pleased to launch a series of Marine Energy related webinars and has teamed up with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to host a webinar on April 15th from 10 to 11:30am PT featuring speakers from PNNL's Coastal Division. |
NWCC Webinar #18 | New Research on Smart Curtailment for Bats at Wind Energy Facilities Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy | March 26, 2020 | Presentations on smart curtailment strategies aimed at minimizing energy loss from curtailment while reducing impacts to bats at wind energy facilities. |
NWCC Webinar #17 | New Research on Deterrents and Monitoring for Bats at Wind Energy Facilities Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy | March 17, 2020 | Presentations on advancements of the commercial readiness of bat deterrent technologies used to minimize impacts to bats and reduce the need for curtailment at wind energy facilities, and on advancements in monitoring technologies. |
NWCC Webinar #16 | New Research on Wildlife Monitoring at Offshore Wind Energy Facilities Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy | January 16, 2020 | New and upcoming research supported by the U.S. Department of Energy on systems and technologies for monitoring wildlife, including birds, bats, and North Atlantic right whales, at offshore wind energy facilities. |
NWCC Webinar #15 | Updates on Research Presented at the 12th NWCC Wind Wildlife Research Meeting | December 4, 2019 | This webinar has presentations on progress and updates from research presented at the 12th NWCC Wind Wildlife Research Meeting. |
OES-Environmental Webinar #18 | ETIP Ocean & OES-Environmental Webinar: Marine Spatial Planning and Ocean Energy Development | November 19, 2019 | In this webinar practices will be discussed for MSP in terms of its support to ocean energy development. Member States are in different phases of MSP development, with some plans already implemented and others in preparation. In this webinar, you will hear experts discussing MSP approaches and opportunities to the ocean energy sector, how some national maritime spatial plans are being implemented and what they can offer to a more effective ocean energy deployment. |
NWCC Webinar #14 | Wind 101: An Introduction to Wind Energy Siting and Development | November 7, 2019 | This webinar provides an introduction to wind energy for those working in a wind-wildlife or related field. |
Tethys Webinar | Introducing the New Tethys Engineering Knowledge Base | August 7, 2019 | A new website, called Tethys Engineering, is being launched that will cover the technical and engineering aspects of the MRE industry. This webinar will walk through the new website, highlighting new content and features. |
NWCC Webinar #13 | Bats and Wind Energy Cooperative: Research Priorities to Address Bats and Wind Energy Issues | April 12, 2019 | This webinar will provide a summary of the issues related to bats and wind energy, a brief history of the Bats and Wind Energy Cooperative, and its current strategy to address bats and wind energy issues. |
WREN Webinar #16 | Multiple Uses for Offshore Space: Incorporating Wind Energy Development | April 5, 2019 | This webinar will discuss perspectives from both Europe, where wind energy development has existed since 1991, and North America, where development is relatively new, but with hopes of rapid expansion. |
NWCC Webinar #12 | Tools for Collecting, Archiving, and Visualizing Bat Monitoring Data | March 22, 2019 | NWCC held a webinar on two tools intended to help monitor, track, and document bat movements and populations across the continent. |
OES-Environmental Webinar #17 | BioFREE (Biofouling in Renewable Energy Environments) Webinar | March 1, 2019 | The BioFREE (Biofouling in Renewable Energy Environments) project has commenced data collection from biofouling monitoring systems deployed across international marine renewable energy (MRE) test centres. This webinar will discuss current environmental research efforts in relation to tackling biofouling. |
OES Annex IV Webinar #16 | Optimizing Permitting/Consenting for Marine Renewable Energy through Data Transferability | September 25, 2018 | This webinar will detail Annex IV’s framework, best management practices, and implementation plan for data transferability and collection consistency. The webinar will also present on how the MRE community has been engaged throughout this process and aims to gather additional feedback from the larger MRE community. |
WREN Webinar #15, NWCC Webinar #11 | First Look at a New Generalized Fatality Estimator, GenEst | August 23, 2018 | This webinar will provide a first look at GenEst and how it can be used to estimate fatalities at wind facilities. |
Tethys Webinar | Using Underwater Video to Monitor Fish Around Ocean and River Energy Devices | July 2, 2018 | This webinar will discuss guidelines for using underwater video effectively and present a new software tool, EyeSea, developed specifically for underwater video analysis. |
Tethys Webinar | Tethys Wind Webinar | June 25, 2018 | This webinar will showcase the content and resources available on Tethys, from a wind energy perspective. |
WREN Webinar #14 | Reconstruction after Decommissioning - A Cross Industry Perspective | May 4, 2018 | The speakers will discuss reconstruction after decommissioning from both the offshore wind, land-based wind and adjacent industry perspectives. |
NWCC Webinar #10 | Status and Findings of Developing Technologies for Bat Detection and Deterrence at Wind Facilities | March 14, 2018 | This webinar provides updated on NWCC webinar #5 on bat detection and deterrence. |
WREN Webinar #13 | Smart Curtailment - A Global Perspective | January 17, 2018 | The speakers will discuss smart curtailment from both the European and North American perspective. |
OES Annex IV Webinar #15 | Tools and Resources for Environmental Assessments | December 12, 2017 | This webinar will discuss three tools that can be employed for environmental assessments: RADMAPP, a spatial data management, display and analysis tool; the Impact Assessment Tool (IMPACT) developed in the United Kingdom; and Tethys Management Measures developed in the United States and the United Kingdom as part of the Annex IV initiative. |
OES Annex IV Webinar #14 | Information Collection and Consenting Processes for Wave and Tidal Deployments - Lessons from the Field | September 21, 2017 | This webinar addresses consenting wave projects in Sweden with the necessary collection of environmental and socio-economic data and on consenting tidal projects in Canada with the necessary collection of economic data. |
WREN Webinar #12 | Upscaling Wind and Wildlife Individual Interactions to Population-Level Impacts | September 20, 2017 | This webinar covers a manuscript produced by the WREN collaborative on individual to population impacts and WEST’s development of a quantitative assessment of the direct effects of wind energy on small passerines and diurnal raptors in North America. |
NWCC Webinar #9 | Summary and Synthesis of the Latest Knowledge on Wind Energy and Wildlife | July 18, 2017 | This webinar presents a summary of wind energy and wildlife interactions, including raptors, bats, and grouse. |
WREN Webinar #11 | Research Programs to Understand the Environmental Impacts of Offshore Wind, Part 2 | June 20, 2017 | This webinar is the second of a two-part series covering research programs designed to understand the environmental impacts of offshore wind. |
OES Annex IV Webinar #13 | Fisheries Interactions with Marine Renewable Energy Development | June 19, 2017 | This webinar will look at the socio-economic impacts of marine renewable energy (MRE) projects around commercial fisheries by exploring the attitudes of fishermen towards MRE projects under development and perceived socio-economic impacts and opportunities, as well as the co-occurrence and nature of potential interactions between these two industries. |
NWCC Webinar #8 | Upcoming Research on Eagle Impact Minimization Technologies Supported by the US Department of Energy | May 19, 2017 | This webinar features overviews of DOE selected research projects, including explorations into how to create more effective deterrents and testing and evaluation of existing and newly emerging detection and deterrent technologies. |
OES Annex IV Webinar #12 | Artificial Reefs and Benthic Changes in Relation to MRE | April 25, 2017 | This webinar will look at the environmental effects of marine renewable energy (MRE) devices related to benthic habitat and community changes, and the effects of artificial reefs, specifically focusing on marine fish and crustaceans. |
WREN Webinar #10 | BOEM Efforts to Collect and Analyze Offshore Wind Data in a Holistic Manner, as Demonstrated through the RODEO Study | March 28, 2017 | This webinar will cover The United States Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) Real-time Opportunity for Development Environmental Observations (RODEO) study. |
OES Annex IV Webinar #11 | Recent Research of Interest to the MRE Industry | January 18, 2017 | This webinar will feature two recent sets of research findings that will further elucidate the importance of EMF from cables and fish interaction with devices to the industry. |
WREN Webinar #9 | Adaptive Management in the Wind Energy Industry | November 16, 2016 | A recent review of Adaptive Management (AM) has clarified fundamental differences in the definition of AM, and its application to projects or planning processes. This webinar sets out to explore these experiences and suggest the possibility of a common definition and framework for AM that is capable of supporting the needs of wind energy development where there are potential conflicts with wildlife. It will examine how AM has been applied to wind energy development around the world, with a focus on examples from the US and UK. |
NWCC Webinar #7 | Wind Energy and Greater Sage-Grouse Webinar: Sage-Grouse Research Collaborative Results | November 9, 2016 | This webinar presents results from two research projects overseen by the NWCC Sage-Grouse Research Collaborative. |
WREN Webinar #8 | Assessing Marine and Avian Wildlife Off the New York Coast | July 21, 2016 | In an effort to ensure that potential offshore wind development protects the environment and addresses the concerns of coastal communities, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) is conducting a multi-year aerial survey of wildlife in this area. This webinar will outline the planned scope of the survey project and provide insights in the technical aspects of image collection, processing, species identification and data presentation. |
OES Annex IV Webinar #10 | Role of Biofouling in Marine Renewable Energy Development Webinar | July 12, 2016 | While not yet considered to be a key strategic consenting issue by regulatory bodies, biofouling is becoming an important consideration for device developers and operators with increasing deployment experience. Similarly, as more devices are deployed, regulators are increasingly pressed to understand the potential for spread of non-native species, as well as any artificial reef impacts. |
WREN Webinar #7 | Wind Energy Development Impacts on Marine Environment | June 28, 2016 | This webinar will discuss noise monitoring research and mitigation to help protect marine life from the impacts of wind energy development-related sounds produced during the building phases and types of foundations. |
OES Annex IV Webinar #9 | 2016 Annex IV State of the Science Webinar | May 10, 2016 | The recently published Annex IV State of the Science Report summarizes the state of the science of interactions and effects of marine renewable energy (MRE) devices on the marine environment, the animals that live there, and the habitats that support them. |
LINC Webinar | Large Scale Interactive Coupled Modelling of Environmental Impacts of Marine Renewable Energy Farms (LINC) Webinar | April 28, 2016 | The webinar is a showcase of outcomes of an EPSRC grant funded project. In particular we will show the development and the availability of a range of numerical methods to assess various potential environmental impact of large arrays of tidal and wave energy devices. |
OES Annex IV Webinar #8 | Collision Risk Webinar - Understanding and Resolving the Problem in Scotland | March 15, 2016 | This webinar serves as a follow up to the International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE) 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Collision risk to marine animals was discussed, including the regulatory landscape in Scotland and the latest insights from current UK research. |