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Guidance for Pre- and Post-Construction Monitoring to Detect Changes in Marine Bird Distributions and Habitat Use Related to Offshore Wind Energy

An expert committee of the New York State Offshore Wind Environmental Technical Working Group (E-TWG) has released guidance for conducting pre- and post-construction monitoring to detect changes in marine bird distributions and habitat use related to offshore wind development. The committee also developed guidance for the use of existing avian survey data for site [...]

By Allison Foster|2024-08-26T14:07:37-04:00August 26, 2024|

Displacement meta-analysis paper published in ScienceDirect

Offshore wind construction impacts marine bird habitats in various ways. Researchers from The Nature Conservancy in New York, Biodiversity Research Institute, and the Biodiversity Consultancy Ltd conducted a meta-analysis to assess the likelihood of detecting attraction or displacement of marine birds by wind energy infrastructure as well as the proportional change in use of [...]

By Eleanor Eckel|2024-07-29T10:58:54-04:00July 29, 2024|

BRI to Lead Avian Research for $7.5M Grant from DOE

Biodiversity Research Institute to Lead Avian Research on $7.5 M Grant from the Department of Energy Grant Will Fund Study of Offshore Wind Energy’s Impacts on Sea Life Portland, ME— Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) is part of a collaborative team, led by Duke University, that has received a total of $7.5 million to assess [...]

By Deborah McKew|2021-10-19T15:56:14-04:00October 20, 2021|

BRI’s Research Published in the Journal Evolutionary Applications

BRI's research is included in a published collaborative study to understand how risk factors affect migratory bird populations across their annual cycle. For example, disease outbreaks may happen on the breeding grounds, the wintering grounds, or during migration and are expected to accelerate under climate change. The ability to identify the geographic origins of [...]

By Deborah McKew|2021-09-16T11:11:35-04:00July 6, 2021|

BRI Publishes New Research on Seabirds and Wind Farms

BRI research on Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) and offshore wind farms was recently published in the journal, Wildlife Society Bulletin. The article, Assessing Cumulative Exposure of Northern Gannets to Offshore Wind Farms, examines whether wind‐farm siting decisions can reduce cumulative exposure of gannets. The study quantified exposure using three different wind-farm siting scenarios. Read the full [...]

By andrew.gilbert|2021-01-21T15:06:08-05:00May 15, 2020|

New Report Deepens Understanding of Wind-Wildlife Interactions

BRI researcher Kathryn Williams has co-authored a new report, “Impacts to Wildlife of Wind Energy Siting and Operation in the United States,” recently published in The Ecological Society of America's (ESA) Issues in Ecology. An increase in the generation of wind energy is a key component of the U.S. strategy to reduce carbon emissions from the [...]

By andrew.gilbert|2021-01-21T15:26:05-05:00September 23, 2019|

Two BRI Wildlife and Renewable Energy Projects Newly Funded by NYSERDA

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) recently announced that it has selected five multi-year projects totaling more than $2 million to further study important environmental and commercial fishing topics to support the responsible development of offshore wind, two of which will fund research at BRI. The primary project BRI was [...]

By andrew.gilbert|2021-01-21T15:35:12-05:00August 19, 2019|

BRI Publishes New Research on Seabirds and Offshore Wind Energy Development

BRI research on seabirds and offshore wind energy development was recently published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. The article, Assessing the cumulative adverse effects of offshore wind energy development on seabird foraging guilds along the East Coast of the United States, calculates cumulative exposure of seabirds to areas suitable for offshore wind farms, and [...]

By andrew.gilbert|2021-01-21T15:38:28-05:00May 25, 2019|

BRI Publishes New Research on Wildlife and Offshore Wind Energy Development

BRI researcher and deputy director, Wing Goodale, recently published a new paper on wildlife and offshore wind development. The article, Assessing the cumulative exposure of wildlife to offshore wind energy development, was published in the Journal of Environmental Management, and outlines a Cumulative Exposure (CE) model that can be used to: evaluate the incremental impact of wind [...]

By andrew.gilbert|2021-01-21T15:48:33-05:00January 28, 2019|

New Publication in Science

Species Spotlight – Secretarybird

Volume 3. Issue 3