TY - CONF TI - Simulating Harbour Porpoise Habitat Use in a 3D Tidal Environment AU - Lake, T AU - Masters, I AU - Croft, T T2 - 11th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC 2015) AB - Assessing the environmental impacts of a project are often an important requirement of the planning and consenting process for a marine energy device deployment. Computer simulations are frequently used in other areas of marine energy development, and Individual Based Models (IBMs) provide one method for simulating marine life in order to investigate potential impacts of marine energy devices on the local ecosystem, including the possibility to simulate protected species such as Harbour Porpoise.This contribution will showcase initial results of a Harbour Porpoise IBM under development at Swansea University, which aims to combine fine scale temporal motion with tidal data from existing hydrodynamic models and other environmental properties in order to examine potential responses of Harbour Porpoise to marine energy developments.Click here for more information on Ramsey Sound. DA - 2015/09// PY - 2015 SP - 7 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281407916_Simulating_Harbour_Porpoise_Habitat_Use_in_a_3D_Tidal_Environment LA - English KW - Marine Energy KW - Marine Mammals ER -