Webinars for Marine and Wind Energy and the Environment

Tethys hosts regular webinars about marine energy, wind energy, and the environment to disseminate new information and research to a large international audience of stakeholders. Anyone is welcome to attend and participate in a question and answer session with the presenters. Ongoing webinars on Tethys are sponsored by OES-EnvironmentalWREN, SEER, ECO Wind, and other projects. Sign up to receive invitations to webinars here. View a full list of webinars here.

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NWCC Webinar #2 Eagle Research and Mitigation March 5, 2014

Dr. Taber Allison of the American Wind Wildlife Institute presented on AWWI’s work on eagles, including the Eagle Research Framework.

OES Annex IV Webinar #1 Instrumentation Workshop Webinar January 23, 2014

An instrumentation workshop was held in June of 2013 to discuss the current state of the science for environmental monitoring around MHK devices.

NWCC Webinar #1 Recently-Released Research on Wind Energy and Grassland Birds & Ducks November 20, 2013

This webinar presents research on interactions between wind energy and grassland birds and ducks.

DOE OSW Monitoring Webinar Wildlife Monitoring and Basline Studies for Offshore Wind Development April 24, 2013

This webinar focuses on presenting initial results of the first year of data collection for two large-scale studies in the US that establish baseline data to aid in the siting and permitting of future projects.

DOE MHK Webinar #5 The Annex IV Project April 3, 2012

This webinar conveys information on the Annex IV project which center on international data sharing efforts for potential environmental effects of marine renewable energy to understand effects, minimizing the potential for redundancy of efforts, and increasing the efficiency of the permitting and consenting process.

DOE MHK Webinar #4 Acoustic Impacts Webinar December 14, 2011

Anthropogenic noise production in the marine environment is a known stressor to many different aquatic species. This webinar focused on research efforts focused on determining the potential impacts of MHK-produced noise to aquatic animals.

DOE MHK Webinar #3 Monitoring Technologies and Strategies Webinar September 14, 2011

Topics of this webinar focused on developing methodologies for monitoring MHK devices post-deployment, including monitoring framework development and the use of passive and active acoustics to monitor aquatic animal behavior around MHK devices.

DOE MHK Webinar #2 Aquatic Animal Interaction with Marine and Hydrokinetic Devices Webinar August 29, 2011

Discussions focused on the probability and extent of damage occurring as a result of interaction between aquatic animals and MHK devices.

DOE MHK Webinar #1 Environmental Data Management, Cumulative Impacts and Risk Assessment Webinar July 27, 2011

Webinar presentations showcase methods for dissemination of valuable environmental data.