Ocean Business 2015

Jenny Norris, EMEC’s Research Director, is attending Ocean Business 2015 at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, on 14-16th April.

If you’d like to meet with Jenny at the conference, please contact info@emec.org.uk.

Special Session on Marine Renewable Energy

“Update on technology and tools to de-risk and streamline marine energy development”
Thursday 16th April, 1200-1800: NOC Seminar Room, free to attend (also available via webinar)

Jenny is attending this final event for the NERC-Defra Marine Renewable Energy research programme. This session will review the contribution of the NERC – DEFRA funded research and knowledge exchange programmes to development of novel technology, tools and methods, and consider the needs for the industry going forward.

Join the webinar at EMEC: If you based in Orkney, EMEC are linking into this session via a webinar so please pop along if you’d like to join all or part of it.

Programme:

Main Research Programme
1300: Introduction by Dr Annie Linley
1310: Application of X band radar for resource assessment: Case studies from the European Marine Energy Centre and the Inner Sound, Pentland Firth
1330: Development of the FLOWBEC (Flow-and-Benthic-Ecology-4D) seabed platform
1350: Application of telemetry and visual observations for mapping fine scale habitat use by seals
1410: Impacts of operational noise on harbour porpoises
1430: Programme break: a short film will be shown
1445: Maximising energy extraction at wave and tidal energy sites whilst optimising environmental benefit
1505: Development of telemetry for understanding fish movements around offshore windfarms
1525: Baited video and other methods for monitoring post deployment impacts on fisheries at energy farms
Knowledge exchange programme
1615: Introduction by Dr Annie Linley
1625: Fish responses to impulsive noise
1645: Review and update of Collision Risk Models for predicting potential collisions of birds with turbine blades
1705: Interactions between fisheries and renewable energy development
1745: Seminar closes

For further details, visit: Special Session on Marine Renewable Energy