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Galloper Wind Farm
… Chapter of the Environmental Statement (ES) describes the existing environment with regard to marine mammals, which includes pinnipeds (seals) and cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises), … Outer Thames Estuary and southern North Sea. 14.1.2 This Chapter serves to characterise the distribution and abundance of marine mammal species which have been recorded within the study area and wider region through site …
- Journal Article:
Southall et al.
… repeatable analytical framework for assessing relative risk of anthropogenic disturbances on marine vertebrates, with the emphasis on the sound generating aspects of the activity. The … human activities (particularly those that produce sound) influence the likelihood of marine mammal behavioral responses and potential injury, rely principally on generalized … allowing a relativistic means of assessing potential disturbance scenarios, tunable to animal distribution, region, context, and degrees of spatial-temporal-spectral resolution. … 2023-02-27 …
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Macrander et al.
… The ability to gather real-time and near real-time data on marine mammal distribution, movement, and habitat use has advanced significantly over the last two decades. …
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Adams et al.
… We assembled and tabulated information about marine bird and mammal research and monitoring programs that could provide data needed to support environmental … but the catalog for Alaska is not comprehensive. We included programs that assessed the distribution, abundance, or biology of marine birds (seabirds, waterbirds, or sea ducks) and …
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New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
… Marine ecosystems are dynamic, with substantial temporal variation in environmental conditions and in wildlife distributions. Many marine areas in the eastern United States are heavily used for transportation, resource … (Halpern et al. 2008, Industrial Economics Inc. 2012). Land-based human activities also impact marine ecosystems, such as coastal development and pollutants that make their way into oceans. …
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Palka et al.
… The Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (AMAPPS) is a comprehensive multiagency … Economic Zone (EEZ). The overarching goal of AMAPPS is to assess the abundance, distribution, ecology, and behavior of marine mammals, sea turtles, and seabirds throughout the U.S. Atlantic outer …
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Pembroke and Robinson Willmott
… cm at the sea surface and provides information on spatial and temporal abundances of birds, marine mammals, turtles, rays, sharks, large bony fishes, and fish shoals. Spatial patterns were …
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Pembroke and Robinson Willmott
… cm at the sea surface and provides information on spatial and temporal abundances of birds, marine mammals, turtles, rays, sharks, large bony fishes, and fish shoals. Spatial patterns were …
- Journal Article:
Ma et al.
… effects assessment (CEA) should be conducted at ecologically meaningful scales such as large marine ecosystems to halt further ocean degradation caused by anthropogenic pressures and facilitate ecosystem-based management such as transboundary marine spatial planning (MSP). However, few studies exist at large marine ecosystems scale, … Ecosystem (YSLME), aiming to understand the most influential cause-effect pathways and risk distribution pattern. The results showed that (1) seven human activities including port, …
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Normandeau Associates Inc
… Authority (NYSERDA) embarked on a multi-year ultra-high resolution aerial digital survey of marine resources in a 43,745.20 km2 (12,754.06 mi2) offshore planning area (OPA) in 2016. The OPA … others. Black-capped petrels and Audubon’s shearwaters showed no substantial differences in distribution among the seasons, but both species clustered near the shelf break and in the … followed by 1% whales and 1% seals; unidentified mammals consisted of 1.5% of the total mammal observations and based on size, these animals were dolphins or seals. Dolphins were …
- Journal Article:
Civil et al.
… The efficacy of marine protected areas (MPAs) depends on clear conservation objectives and ecologically … Firth Special Area of Conservation (SAC), originally proposed to contain their core area of distribution. Two decades on, this study assesses the importance for this population of St …
- Journal Article:
Stone et al.
Two wind energy areas (WEAs), designated by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, offshore of Massachusetts and Rhode Island were surveyed between October 2011 and June 2015. A total of 969 cetacean sightings of over 10,000 animals were documented during systematic line-transect aerial surveys (67,525 km flown).…
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Davison and Mallows
… Marine Current Turbines Ltd have constructed the first tidal power turbine in the UK off the … as a result of tidal flows. This Environmental Statement has been prepared in support of Marine Current Turbine Ltd’s application to construct Seagen under the Food and Environment … the potential impacts of the turbine construction, operation and removal on water speed, the distribution of fine particles and the removal of energy as a result of Seagen. This information …
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Welsh Government
… The purpose of marine planning under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (MCAA) is to help achieve sustainable development of the … to do so, it has commissioned this Wales' Marine Evidence Report (WMER) to assess the spatial distribution of natural resources and human activities within Wales’s marine area and to …
- Report: Rockwood et al.
Using Available Data and Information to Identify Offshore Wind Energy Areas Off the California Coast
… maximize energy generation potential while preserving existing ocean uses and protecting the marine and coastal environments. More specifically, the goal of this phase of the project was to … link at left. Key Findings There is significant variation in the quality and availability of distribution data: data for fish and habitats are the poorest and are best for seabirds, although … uses analyzed Fish and fisheries have elevated predicted impacts in the north while marine mammal and turtle and seabird coastal impacts were elevated toward the south Key Conclusions We … - Journal Article:
Piet et al.
… and effect components that can be quantified using known ecological information, e.g. spatial distribution of pressures or species, pressure-state relationships and population dynamics models … and how they impact the ecosystem and its components, i.e. seabirds, seabed habitats and marine mammals through various pressures. The results provide a “proof of concept” for this …
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BOEM Office of Renewable Energy Programs
… US Wind applied to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for an incidental take authorization in the form of a Letter of Authorization (LOA) for Incidental Take Regulations under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) of 1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), for incidental take of … Cited Appendix L: Glossary Appendix M: List of Preparers and Reviewers Appendix N: Distribution List … 2023-09-29 …
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Cooke et al.
… and their impact on ocean ecosystems, animal movements, and ecology and the dynamics of marine animal populations, many of which are commercially important. The network is organized … a single unifying national-scale question—what are the movements of continental shelf marine animals, how do these movements affect species interactions, and what are the consequences … and abundance? Taxa that will be tracked include diadromous (e.g., salmon, eels, sturgeon) and marine (e.g., sharks, capelin, cod) fishes and a variety of marine mammals (e.g., grey seals, …
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Conley et al.
… environment (morphology, waves and current etc.) and flora and fauna as represented by marine mammals, seabirds, benthos and fish and shellfish. There is a concern that removal of energy from waves and currents in the marine environment may result in significant environmental impact, whether to the marine … species are subject to various levels of regulatory protection and monitoring of seabird distribution and behaviour is a universal component of wave energy EIA. A special and key feature …
- Workshop Article:
Green et al.
… publicly available resources and with advisory group input. The workshop covered three marine life breakout groups on subsequent days to discuss research recommendations related to 1) marine mammals and sea turtles, 2) fish and invertebrates, and 3) birds and bats. As part of the … Mammals and Sea Turtles Exposure and Risk Analysis. Greater baseline understanding of marine mammal and sea turtle habitat use and residency is needed to inform exposure and risk to the …
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