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.
As an alternative to the Knowledge Base, check out the Map Viewer to access geotagged content in a spatial view.
| Title | Author* |
Date** |
Type of Content | Technology Types | Stressors | Receptors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Underwater Mach Wave Radiation from Impact Pile Driving: Theory and Observation | Reinhall, P., Dahl, P. | September 2011 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | N/A |
| Health Effects and Wind Turbines: A Review of the Literature | Knopper, L., Ollson, C. | September 2011 | Journal Article | Wind Energy (General), Land-Based Wind | Noise | Human Dimensions, Social & Economic Data |
| Low-Frequency Sounds Induce Acoustic Trauma in Cephalopods | André, M., et al. | November 2011 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Benthic Invertebrates |
| The Effect of Wind-Generated Bubbles on Sea-Surface Backscattering at 940 Hz | van Vossen, R., Ainslie, M. | November 2011 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | N/A |
| Managing Underwater Noise in European Waters - Implementing the Marine Strategy Framework Directive | Tasker, M., et al. | January 2012 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | N/A |
| Auditory Effects of Underwater Noise in Odontocetes | Finneran, J. | January 2012 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals |
| Effects of Offshore Pile Driving on Harbor Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) | Brandt, M., et al. | January 2012 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Marine Mammals, Cetaceans |
| Behavioral Reactions of Harbor Porpoise to Pile-Driving Noise | Tougaard, J., et al. | January 2012 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Marine Mammals |
| Effects of Pile Driving on the Behavior of Cod and Sole | Thomsen, F., et al. | January 2012 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Fish |
| Long Range Propagation Modeling of Offshore Wind Turbine Noise using Finite Element and Parabolic Equation Models | Kim, H., et al. | January 2012 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | N/A |
| Changes in Humpback Whale Song Occurrence in Response to an Acoustic Source 200 km Away | Risch, D., et al. | January 2012 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals, Cetaceans |
| A New Context-Based Approach to Assess Marine Mammal Behavioral Responses to Anthropogenic Sounds | Ellison, W., et al. | February 2012 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals |
| Common Sole Larvae Survive High Levels of Pile-Driving Sound in Controlled Exposure Experiments | Bolle, L., et al. | March 2012 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Fish |
| Noise impact assessment on the basis of onsite acoustic noise immission measurements for a representative wind farm | Kaldellis, J., Garakis, K., Kapsali, M. | May 2012 | Journal Article | Wind Energy (General) | Noise | N/A |
| Experimental Evidence for the Effects of Chronic Anthropogenic Noise on Abundance of Greater Sage-Grouse at Leks | Blickley, J., Blackwood, D., Patricelli, G. | May 2012 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Land-Based Wind | Noise | Birds |
| Aquatic Acoustic Metrics Interface Utility for Underwater Sound Monitoring and Analysis | Ren, H., et al. | May 2012 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Fish, Marine Mammals |
| Threshold for Onset of Injury in Chinook Salmon from Exposure to Impulsive Pile Driving Sounds | Halvorsen, M., et al. | June 2012 | Journal Article | Marine Energy general, Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Fish |
| Recovery of Barotrauma Injuries in Chinook Salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha from Exposure to Pile Driving Sound | Casper, B., et al. | June 2012 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Fish |
| Hearing Threshold Shifts and Recovery in Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina) after Octave-Band Noise Exposure at 4 kHz | Kastelein, R., et al. | July 2012 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals, Pinnipeds |
| Do you hear what I hear? Implications of detector selection for acoustic monitoring of bats | Adams, A., et al. | September 2012 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Land-Based Wind | Noise | Bats |
| Averaging Underwater Noise Levels for Environmental Assessment of Shipping | Merchant, N., et al. | September 2012 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | N/A |
| A Vessel Noise Budget for Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound, Washington (USA) | Bassett, C., et al. | September 2012 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | N/A |
| A Model for Passive Underwater Noise Suppression by Bubble Curtains Surrounding Point or Line Sources in Shallow Water | Hay, T., et al. | October 2012 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | N/A |
| The Remote Environmental Assessment Laboratory's Acoustic Library: An Archive for Studying Soundscape Ecology | Kasten, E., et al. | November 2012 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Land-Based Wind | Noise | Birds |
| Experimental Chronic Noise Is Related to Elevated Fecal Corticosteroid Metabolites in Lekking Male Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) | Blickley, J., et al. | November 2012 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Land-Based Wind | Noise | Birds |
| Modelling of Pile Driving Noise by Means of Wavenumber Integration | Lippert, T., Lippert, S. | December 2012 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | N/A |
| Turbine Sound May Influence the Metamorphosis Behaviour of Estuarine Crab Megalopae | Pine, M., Jeffs, A., Radford, C. | December 2012 | Journal Article | Marine Energy general, Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Benthic Invertebrates |
| Modeling of Underwater Noise from Pile Driving using Coupled Finite Element and Parabolic Equation Model with Improved Parabolic Equation Starting Field | Park, J., Seong, W., Lee, K. | January 2013 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | N/A |
| Validation of Finite Element Computations for the Quantitative Prediction of Underwater Noise from Impact Pile Driving | Zampolli, M., et al. | January 2013 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | N/A |
| Determining the Detection Thresholds for Harbor Porpoise Clicks of Autonomous Data Loggers, the Timing Porpoise Detectors | Verfuss, U., et al. | February 2013 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals |
| Differentiating Between Underwater Construction Noise of Monopile and Jacket Foundations for Offshore Windmills: A Case Study from the Belgian Part of the North Sea | Norro, A., Rumes, B., Degraer, S. | February 2013 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | N/A |
| Effects of Pile-Driving on Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) at the First Offshore Wind Farm in Germany | Dähne, M., et al. | April 2013 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Marine Mammals |
| Criteria and Case Definitions for Serious Injury and Death of Pinnipeds and Cetaceans Caused by Anthropogenic Trauma | Moore, M., et al. | April 2013 | Journal Article | N/A | Dynamic Device, Noise | Marine Mammals, Cetaceans, Pinnipeds |
| A Semi Analytical Model for the Prediction of Underwater Noise from Offshore Pile Driving | Tsouvalas, A., Metrikine, V. | June 2013 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | N/A |
| Predicting Underwater Radiated Noise Levels due to the First Offshore Wind Turbine Installation in the U.S. | Kim, H., Miller, J., Potty, G. | June 2013 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | N/A |
| Noise Negatively Affects Foraging and Antipredator Behaviour in Shore Crabs | Wale, M., Simpson, S., Radford, A. | July 2013 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Benthic Invertebrates |
| Anthropogenic noise causes body malformations and delays development in marine larvae | de Soto, N., et al. | October 2013 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | N/A |
| Eco-Hydro-Acoustic Modeling and its Use as an EIA Tool | Rossington, K., et al. | October 2013 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Fish |
| Framework for Assessing Impacts of Pile-Driving Noise from Offshore Wind Farm Construction on a Harbour Seal Population | Thomson, P., et al. | November 2013 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Marine Mammals, Pinnipeds |
| Short-Term Disturbance by a Commercial Two-Dimensional Seismic Survey does Not Lead to Long-Term Displacement of Harbour Porpoises | Thompson, P., et al. | November 2013 | Journal Article | Marine Energy (General), Wind Energy (General), Offshore Wind | Displacement, Noise | Marine Mammals, Cetaceans |
| Responsible Practices for Minimizing and Monitoring Environmental Impacts of Marine Seismic Surveys with an Emphasis on Marine Mammals | Nowacek, D., et al. | November 2013 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals |
| Behavioral Responses of a Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) to Playbacks of Broadband Pile Driving Sounds | Kastelein, R., et al. | December 2013 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Marine Mammals |
| Advanced flow and noise simulation method for wind farm assessment in complex terrain | Shen, W., et al. | December 2013 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Land-Based Wind | Noise | N/A |
| On Certain Problems Concerning Environmental Impact Assessment of Wind Turbines in Scope of Acoustic Effects | Wszolek, T., et al. | January 2014 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Land-Based Wind | Noise | Bats, Birds, Socio-economics, Environmental Impact Assessment |
| How Does Wind Turbine Noise Affect People? | Salt, A., Lichtenhan, J. | January 2014 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Land-Based Wind | Noise | N/A |
| Long Term Estimations of Low Frequency Noise Levels over Water from an Off-Shore Wind Farm | Bolin, K., et al. | January 2014 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | N/A |
| Effects of Noise and By-Catch on a Danish Harbour Porpoise Population | Nabe-Nielsen, J., et al. | January 2014 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Marine Mammals |
| The Cumulative Effect on Sound Levels from Multiple Underwater Anthropogenic Sound Sources in Shallow Coastal Waters | Pine, M., Jeffs, A., Radford, C. | February 2014 | Journal Article | Marine Energy general, Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | N/A |
| Airborne Sound Propagation Over Sea During Offshore Wind Farm Piling | Van Renterghem, T., Botteldooren, D., Dekoninck, L. | February 2014 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | N/A |
| Flow-Noise and Turbulence in Two Tidal Channels | Bassett, C., et al. | February 2014 | Journal Article | Marine Energy general, Tidal | Noise | N/A |
| Study and Application of Underwater Noise Impact in Coastal Region off Western Taiwan | Cheng, Y., et al. | March 2014 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Marine Mammals |
| Long-Term, Global-Scale Statistics of Sound Propagation | Cheinet, S. | March 2014 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Farfield Environment |
| On a Hybrid Model for the Prediction of Pile Driving Noise from Offshore Wind Farms | Lippert, T., von Estorff, O. | April 2014 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | N/A |
| 200 kHz Commercial Sonar Systems Generate Lower Frequency Side Lobes Audible to Some Marine Mammals | Deng, Z., et al. | April 2014 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals, Cetaceans |
| Responses of Free-Living Coastal Pelagic Fish to Impulsive Sounds | Hawkins, A., Roberts, L., Cheesman, S. | May 2014 | Journal Article | Marine Energy general, Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Fish |
| Variation of ocean acoustic environments along the western North Atlantic coast: A case study in context of the right whale migration route | Rice, A., et al. | May 2014 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals, Cetaceans |
| Evidence of a Lombard Response in Migrating Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) | Dunlop, R., Cato, D., Noad, M. | May 2014 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals, Cetaceans |
| Coherence Extrapolation for Underwater Ambient Noise | Quijano, J., et al. | May 2014 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | N/A |
| Anthropogenic noise playback impairs embryonic development and increases mortality in a marine invertebrate | Nedelec, S., et al. | July 2014 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Invertebrates |
| The Significance of Parameter Uncertainties for the Prediction of Offshore Pile Driving Noise | Lippert, T., von Estorff, O. | September 2014 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | N/A |
| Assessing Environmental Impacts of Offshore Wind Farms: Lessons Learned and Recommendations for the Future | Bailey, H., Brookes, K., Thompson, P. | September 2014 | Journal Article | Wind Energy (General), Offshore Wind | Attraction, Avoidance, Collision, Displacement, Noise | Birds, Ecosystem Processes, Marine Mammals |
| Marine Mammals and Ocean Noise: Future Directions and Information Needs with Respect to Science, Policy and Law in Canada | Williams, R., et al. | September 2014 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals |
| Source Levels of the Underwater Calls of a Male Leopard Seal | Rogers, T. | October 2014 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals, Pinnipeds |
| In Situ Mortality Experiments with Juvenile Sea Bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) in Relation to Impulsive Sound Levels Caused by Pile Driving of Windmill Foundations | Dubusschere, E., et al. | October 2014 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Fish |
| Low-cost acoustic design of a bat test room | Correia, R., et al. | October 2014 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Bats |
| Assessing the Underwater Acoustics of the World's Largest Vibration Hammer (OCTA-KONG) and Its Potential Effects on the Indo-Pacific Humpbacked Dolphin (Sousa chinensis) | Wang, Z., et al. | October 2014 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Marine Mammals, Cetaceans |
| The Vindication of Don Quixote: The Impact of Noise and Visual Pollution from Wind Turbines | Jensen, C., Panduro, T., Lundhede, T. | November 2014 | Journal Article | Wind Energy (General) | Noise | Human Dimensions, Social & Economic Data, Visual Impacts |
| Health Effects Related to Wind Turbine Noise Exposure: A Systematic Review | Schmidt, J., Klokker, M. | December 2014 | Journal Article | Wind Energy (General), Land-Based Wind | Noise | Human Dimensions, Social & Economic Data |
| Grey Seals use Anthropogenic Signals from Acoustic Tags to Locate Fish: Evidence from a Simulated Foraging Task | Stansbury, A., et al. | January 2015 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals, Pinnipeds |
| Auditory Recognition of Familiar and Unfamiliar Subjects with Wind Turbine Noise | Maffei, L., et al. | January 2015 | Journal Article | Wind Energy (General), Land-Based Wind | Noise | Human Dimensions, Social & Economic Data |
| Cetacean Noise Criteria Revisited in the Light of Proposed Exposure Limits for Harbour Porpoises | Tougaard, J., Wright, A., Madsen, P. | January 2015 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals, Cetaceans |
| Information gaps in understanding the effects of noise on fishes and invertebrates | Hawkins, A., Pembroke, A., Popper, A. | March 2015 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Benthic Invertebrates, Fish |
| Practical Management of Cumulative Anthropogenic Impacts with Working Marine Examples | Wright, A., Kyhn, L. | April 2015 | Journal Article | Marine Energy general, Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Ecosystem |
| Social structure and abundance of coastal bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in the Normano-Breton Gulf, English Channel | Louis, M., et al. | May 2015 | Journal Article | Marine Energy general, Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Marine Mammals, Cetaceans |
| Tradeoff Analysis of Energy Harvesting and Noise Emission for Distributed Wind Turbines | Shaltout, M., et al. | June 2015 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general | Noise | N/A |
| Sound Exposure in Harbour Seals During the Installation of an Offshore Wind Farm: Predictions of Auditory Damage | Hastie, G., et al. | June 2015 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Marine Mammals, Pinnipeds |
| Noise Impact - Wind Farms in Quebec | Meunier, M., Savard, J. | June 2015 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general | Noise | N/A |
| Where the Decibels Hit the Water: Perspectives on the Application of Science to Real-World Underwater Noise and Marine Protected Species Issues | Scholik-Schlomer, A. | June 2015 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | N/A |
| A Computational Method to Predict and Study Underwater Noise due to Pile Driving | Schecklman, S., et al. | July 2015 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | N/A |
| Impulsive Sounds Change European Seabass Swimming Patterns: Influence of Pulse Repetition Interval | Neo, Y., et al. | August 2015 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Fish |
| An Analytical Model for the Underwater Sound Pressure Waveforms Radiated when an Offshore Pile is Driven | Hall, M. | August 2015 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | N/A |
| Hearing Thresholds of Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina) for Playbacks of Seal Scarer Signals, and Effects of the Signals on Behavior | Kastelein, R., et al. | September 2015 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals, Pinnipeds |
| Hearing Thresholds of a Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) for Playbacks of Seal Scarer Signals, and Effects of the Signals on Behavior | Kastelein, R., et al. | September 2015 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals |
| How anthropogenic noise affects foraging | Luo, J., Siemers, B., Koselj, K. | September 2015 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general | Noise | Bats |
| Towards a Numerical Model to Simulate the Observed Displacement of Harbour Porpoises Phocoena phocoena Due to Pile Driving in Belgian Waters | Haelters, J., et al. | September 2015 | Journal Article | Wind Energy (General), Offshore Wind | Displacement, Noise | Marine Mammals, Cetaceans |
| Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Marine Mammals: A Review of Temporary Threshold Shift Studies from 1996 to 2015 | Finneran, J. | September 2015 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals |
| Noise in the Sea and Its Impacts on Marine Organisms | Peng, C., Zhao, X., Liu, G. | September 2015 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Fish, Marine Mammals |
| Impacts of Anthropogenic Noise on Marine Life: Publication Patterns, New Discoveries, and Future Directions in Research and Management | Williams, R., et al. | October 2015 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Benthic Invertebrates, Fish, Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles |
| Sensitivity of the Mussel Mytilus edulis to Substrate-Borne Vibration in Relation to Anthropogenically Generated Noise | Roberts, L., et al. | October 2015 | Journal Article | Marine Energy general, Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Benthic Invertebrates |
| Sound Science: Maintaining Numerical and Statistical Standards in the Pursuit of Noise Exposure Criteria for Marine Mammals | Wright, A. | November 2015 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals |
| An Italian Proposal on the Monitoring of Underwater Noise: Relationship Between the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and Marine Spatial Planning Directive (MSP) | Maccarrone, V., et al. | December 2015 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Socio-economics, Marine Spatial Planning |
| Evaluating Threats in Multinational Marine Ecosystems: A Coast Salish First Nations and Tribal Perspective | Gaydos, J., Thixton, S., Donatuto, J. | December 2015 | Journal Article | N/A | Chemicals, Collision, Noise | Ecosystem Processes, Human Dimensions, Environmental Impact Assessment, Social & Economic Data |
| Underwater Noise Modelling for Environmental Impact Assessment | Farcas, A., Thompson, P., Merchant, N. | February 2016 | Journal Article | Marine Energy general, Wind Energy general, Offshore Wind | Noise | Socio-economics, Environmental Impact Assessment |
| Anthropogenic noise increases fish mortality by predation | Simpson, S., et al. | February 2016 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Fish |
| Communication Masking in Marine Mammals: A Review and Research Strategy | Erbe, C., et al. | February 2016 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Marine Mammals |
| Exposure-response relationship of wind turbine noise with self-reported symptoms of sleep and health problems: A nationwide socioacoustic survey in Japan | Kageyama, T., et al. | March 2016 | Journal Article | Wind Energy (General), Land-Based Wind | Noise | Human Dimensions, Social & Economic Data |
| Seasonal and Diel Variability of the Underwater Noise in the Baltic Sea | Klusek, Z., Lisimenka, A. | April 2016 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | N/A |
| Analysis of the wind turbine noise emissions and impact on the environment | Katinas, V., Marčiukaitis, M., Tamašauskienė, M. | May 2016 | Journal Article | Wind Energy general, Land-Based Wind | Noise | N/A |
| Avoidance of Wind Farms by Harbour Seals is Limited to Pile Driving Activities | Russell, D., et al. | May 2016 | Journal Article | Wind Energy (General), Offshore Wind | Avoidance, Noise | Marine Mammals, Pinnipeds |
| Auditory Sensitivity in Aquatic Animals | Lucke, K., et al. | June 2016 | Journal Article | N/A | Noise | Birds, Seabirds, Fish, Marine Mammals |
Pages
