Knowledge Base
The Knowledge Base provides access to information about the environmental effects of marine and wind energy, supporting OES-Environmental and WREN initiatives. Relevant documents and OES-Environmental metadata forms are compiled into a user-friendly table with advanced filtering. Filters may be selected on the right, or keywords entered in the Search Text box. Content may also be sorted alphabetically by clicking on column headers.
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| Title | Author* | Date** | Type of Content | Technology Types | Stressors |
Receptors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pathways of Effects for Offshore Renewable Energy in Canada | Isaacman, L., Daborn, G. | December 2011 | Report | Marine Energy (General), Wind Energy (General), Offshore Wind | Avoidance, Changes in Flow, Chemicals, Collision, Displacement, EMF, Habitat Change, Lighting, Noise | Birds, Fish, Invertebrates, Marine Mammals, Nearfield Habitat, Physical Environment, Reptiles, Human Dimensions |
| Environmental Risk Evaluation System - An Approach to Ranking Risk of Ocean Energy Development on Coastal and Estuarine Environments | Copping, A., et al. | January 2015 | Journal Article | Marine Energy (General), Tidal, Wave, Wind Energy (General), Offshore Wind | Attraction, Avoidance, Changes in Flow, Chemicals, Collision, Displacement, Habitat Change | Birds, Fish, Marine Mammals |
| Birds and Wave & Tidal Stream Energy: An Ecological Review | McCluskie, A., Langston, R., Wilkinson, N. | January 2012 | Report | Marine Energy (General), Tidal, Wave | Attraction, Avoidance, Changes in Flow, Chemicals, Collision, Habitat Change, Noise | Birds, Raptors, Seabirds, Shorebirds |
| A Review of Marine Bird Diving Behaviour: Assessing Underwater Collision Risk with Tidal Turbines | Robbins, A., et al. | May 2014 | Presentation | Marine Energy (General), Tidal | Avoidance, Collision | Birds, Seabirds |
| Collision Risks Between Marine Renewable Energy Devices and Mammals, Fish and Diving Birds | Wilson, B., et al. | March 2007 | Report | Marine Energy (General) | Attraction, Avoidance, Collision, Displacement | Birds, Seabirds, Fish, Marine Mammals, Cetaceans |
| Assessment of Risk to Diving Birds from Underwater Marine Renewable Devices in Welsh Waters: Phase 2 - Field Methodologies and Site Assessments | Robinson, C., Cook, G. | February 2011 | Report | Marine Energy (General), Tidal, Wave | Attraction, Avoidance, Collision | Birds, Seabirds, Shorebirds, Waterfowl |
| Attraction To and Avoidance of Instream Hydrokinetic Turbines by Freshwater Aquatic Organisms | Cada, G., Bevelhimer, M. | May 2011 | Report | Marine Energy (General), Riverine | Attraction, Avoidance, Habitat Change | Fish |
| Changes in Vertical Fish Distributions Near a Hydrokinetic Device in Cobscook Bay, Maine, USA | Staines, G., et al. | September 2015 | Conference Paper | Marine Energy (General) | Attraction, Avoidance | Fish |
| Changes in Relative Fish Density Around a Deployed Tidal Turbine during on-Water Activities | Staines, G., Zydlewski, G., Viehman, H. | November 2019 | Journal Article | Marine Energy (General), Tidal | Avoidance | Fish |
| A fish-eye view of riverine hydropower systems: the current understanding of the biological response to turbine passage | Pracheil, B., et al. | January 2016 | Journal Article | Marine Energy (General), Riverine | Avoidance, Collision | Fish |
| A Probabilistic Model for Hydrokinetic Turbine Collision Risks: Exploring Impacts on Fish | Hammar, L., et al. | March 2015 | Journal Article | Marine Energy (General) | Avoidance, Changes in Flow, Collision | Fish |
| Agent-Based Modelling of fish collisions with tidal turbines | Rossington, K., Benson, T. | May 2019 | Presentation | Marine Energy (General), Tidal | Avoidance, Collision | Fish |
| Brims Tidal Array Collision Risk Modelling - Atlantic Salmon | Xodus Group | March 2016 | Report | Marine Energy (General), Tidal | Avoidance, Collision | Fish |
| Collision Risk of Fish with Wave and Tidal Devices | ABP Marine Environmental Research | July 2010 | Report | Marine Energy (General), Tidal, Wave | Attraction, Avoidance, Collision, Displacement | Fish |
| Discrete Element Modeling of Blade-Strike Frequency and Survival of Fish Passing Through Hydrokinetic Turbines | Romero-Gomez, P., Richmond, M. | April 2014 | Conference Paper | Marine Energy (General) | Attraction, Avoidance, Collision, Displacement | Fish |
| Downstream migration of Atlantic salmon smolts past a low head hydropower station equippped with Archimedes screw and Francis turbines | Havn, T., et al. | August 2017 | Journal Article | Marine Energy (General), Riverine | Attraction, Avoidance, Collision, Displacement | Fish |
| Environmental Effects of Hydrokinetic Turbines on Fish: Desktop and Laboratory Flume Studies | Jacobson, P., et al. | December 2012 | Report | Marine Energy (General) | Attraction, Avoidance, Collision, Habitat Change | Fish |
| Estimation of the Risks of Collision or Strike to Freshwater Aquatic Organisms Resulting from Operation of Instream Hydrokinetic Turbines | Schweizer, P., Cada, G., Bevelhimer, M. | May 2011 | Report | Marine Energy (General), Riverine | Attraction, Avoidance, Collision | Fish |
| Evaluation of Behavior and Survival of Fish Exposed to an Axial-Flow Hydrokinetic Turbine | Amaral, S., et al. | February 2015 | Journal Article | Marine Energy (General), Tidal | Avoidance, Collision | Fish |
| Evaluation of Survival and Behavior of Fish Exposed to an Axial-Flow Hydrokinetic Turbine | Amaral, S., Giza, D., McMahon, B. | January 2014 | Report | Marine Energy (General) | Avoidance, Collision | Fish |
| Fish Behavioral Response during Hydrokinetic Turbine Encounters Based on Multi-Beam Hydroacoustics Results | Bevelhimer, M., et al. | April 2015 | Conference Paper | Marine Energy (General) | Avoidance, Collision | Fish |
| Evaluation of Potential EMF Effects on Fish Species of Commercial or Recreational Fishing Importance in Southern New England | Snyder, D., et al. | August 2019 | Report | Marine Energy (General) | Attraction, Avoidance, EMF | Fish, Demersal Fish, Pelagic Fish, Invertebrates, Fisheries |
| An International Assessment of the Environmental Effects of Marine Energy Development | Copping, A., et al. | October 2014 | Journal Article | Marine Energy (General) | Attraction, Avoidance, Changes in Flow, Collision, Displacement, Noise | Fish, Marine Mammals |
| Functional and structural responses to marine urbanisation | Mayer-Pinto, M., et al. | January 2018 | Journal Article | Marine Energy (General), Wind Energy (General), Offshore Wind | Attraction, Avoidance | Invertebrates |
| Potential Impact of Submarine Power Cables on Crab Harvest | Bull, A., Nishimoto, M. | February 2016 | Conference Paper | Marine Energy (General), Wind Energy (General), Offshore Wind | Attraction, Avoidance, EMF | Invertebrates |
| A Coordinated Action Plan for Addressing Collision Risk for Marine Mammals and Tidal Turbines | Hutchison, I., Copping, A. | August 2016 | Workshop Article | Marine Energy (General), Tidal | Avoidance, Collision | Marine Mammals |
| Assessment of Risk to Marine Mammals from Underwater Marine Renewable Devices in Welsh Waters: Phase 1 - Desktop Review of Marine Mammals and Risks from Underwater Marine Renewable Devices in Welsh Waters | Wilson, B., Gordon, J. | March 2011 | Report | Marine Energy (General), Tidal, Wave | Attraction, Avoidance, Changes in Flow, Collision, Displacement | Marine Mammals |
| The Use of Acoustic Devices to Warn Marine Mammals of Tidal-Stream Energy Devices | Wilson, B., Carter, C. | September 2013 | Report | Marine Energy (General), Tidal | Avoidance, Noise | Marine Mammals |
| Impact of pile-driving on Hector's dolphin in Lyttelton Harbour, New Zealand | Leunissen, E., Rayment, W., Dawson, S. | May 2019 | Journal Article | Marine Energy (General), Wind Energy (General), Offshore Wind | Avoidance, Noise | Marine Mammals, Cetaceans |
| Baseline Presence of and Effects of Tidal Turbine Installation and Operations on Harbour Porpoise in Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy, Canada | Tollit, D., et al. | January 2019 | Journal Article | Marine Energy (General), Tidal | Avoidance, Noise | Marine Mammals, Cetaceans |
| Responses of bottlenose dolphins and harbor porpoises to impact and vibration piling noise during harbor construction | Graham, I., et al. | May 2017 | Journal Article | Marine Energy (General), Wind Energy (General), Offshore Wind | Avoidance, Noise | Marine Mammals, Cetaceans |
| Detection of Marine Mammals and Effects Monitoring at the NSPI (OpenHydro) Turbine Site in the Minas Passage during 2010 | Tollit, D., et al. | February 2011 | Report | Marine Energy (General), Tidal | Avoidance | Marine Mammals, Cetaceans |
| Biological and Existing Data Analysis to Inform Risk of Collision and Entanglement Hypotheses | Kropp, R. | December 2013 | Report | Marine Energy (General), Wave | Avoidance, Collision, Entrapment | Marine Mammals, Cetaceans |
| Estimates of Collision Risk of Harbour Porpoises and Marine Renewable Energy Devices at Sites of High Tidal-Stream Energy | Wilson, B., et al. | November 2014 | Report | Marine Energy (General), Tidal | Avoidance, Collision | Marine Mammals, Cetaceans |
| Marine Mammal Behavioral Response to Tidal Turbine Sound | Robertson, F., et al. | June 2018 | Report | Marine Energy (General), Tidal | Avoidance, Noise | Marine Mammals, Pinnipeds |
| Harbour Seals Avoid Tidal Turbine Noise: Implications for Collision Risk | Hastie, G., et al. | March 2018 | Journal Article | Marine Energy (General), Tidal | Avoidance, Noise | Marine Mammals, Pinnipeds |
| Data Based Estimates of Collision Risk: An Example Based on Harbour Seal Tracking Data around a Proposed Tidal Turbine Array in the Pentland Firth | Thompson, D., et al. | January 2016 | Report | Marine Energy (General), Tidal | Attraction, Avoidance, Collision | Marine Mammals, Pinnipeds |
| Empirical measures of harbor seal behavior and avoidance of an operational tidal turbine | Joy, R., et al. | November 2018 | Journal Article | Marine Energy (General), Tidal | Avoidance, Collision, Displacement | Marine Mammals, Pinnipeds |
| MaRVEN - Environmental Impacts of Noise, Vibrations and Electromagnetic Emissions from Marine Renewable Energy | Thomsen, F., et al. | September 2015 | Report | Marine Energy (General) | Attraction, Avoidance, EMF | N/A |
| Assessing collision risk between underwater turbines and marine wildlife | Scottish Natural Heritage | May 2016 | Report | Marine Energy (General), Tidal | Attraction, Avoidance, Collision, Displacement | N/A |
| Development of a Stereo Camera System for Monitoring Hydrokinetic Turbines | Joslin, J., Polagye, B., Parker-Stetter, S. | October 2012 | Conference Paper | Marine Energy (General), Tidal | Attraction, Avoidance, Collision | Nearfield Habitat |
