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Department of Fisheries Oceanography Seminar - Kathryn Ford

When: Wednesday, November 17, 2021
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Where: > See description for location
Description: The School for Marine Science and Technology
Department of Fisheries Oceanography
Seminar Announcement

"Change is here: Modifying long term resource surveys due to offshore wind development on the eastern seaboard, U.S."

Kathryn Ford, PhD
NOAA Fisheries
Population and Ecosystems Monitoring and Analysis Division Chief

Wednesday, November 17, 2021
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
SMAST East, Rooms 101/102
Also Via Zoom


Abstract:
The development of offshore wind in U.S. federal waters has accelerated recently as governmental decision-makers have set increasingly aggressive renewable energy and decarbonization targets that have led to state power purchase agreements for offshore wind energy. Now there are 25 projects in various stages of permitting, and the financial close of the first commercial offshore wind project occurred in the fall of 2021. Current estimates are for the occupation of 2.5 million acres on the eastern seaboard over the next 10 years and expansion beyond that soon thereafter. One of the challenges posed by these developments is the impacts of offshore wind development on the scientific surveys used to assess health of fish stocks and monitor protected species managed by NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). Some of these surveys rely on survey designs, methods, and sampling platforms that are incompatible with wind energy infrastructure. Large wind arrays in which stations cannot be sampled will fundamentally disrupt these long term surveys and increases in scientific uncertainty will lead to impacts on fishing communities, protected species, marine industries, and the public. NMFS has described the needed actions to mitigate these impacts and has begun to partner with BOEM, wind farm developers, and the fishing industry on some initial actions to avoid the permanent loss of these important scientific enterprises. We will describe how individual surveys could be affected, the impacts to management advice, and describe current efforts to address the problem.

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Meeting ID: 937 5823 0260
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Topical Areas: School for Marine Sciences and Technology, SMAST Seminar Series