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View the recording of our SCRAM Webinar

On March 4th, RWSC hosted a Stochastic Collision Risk Assessment for Movement (SCRAM) Tool Webinar. Lead investigators from USFWS, BOEM, and Biodiversity Research Institute gave an overview of their stochastic collision risk (SCRAM) model that uses movement data from automated radio telemetry to estimate avian collision risk. Read more about the model here. Topics covered included: – Explained why BOEM developed SCRAM and how they are using SCRAM outputs to inform EIS determinations – Introduced how SCRAM incorporates the best available science on collision risk modeling… [More]

View the recording of our Acoustic Telemetry Workshop

On February 15, 2024, the Sea Turtle and Protected Fish Species Subcommittees hosted an Acoustic Telemetry Workshop. These subcommittees identified acoustic telemetry as a key research and management tool in support of environmental monitoring for offshore wind (OSW). The subcommittees also recognize a need for additional coordination around acoustic telemetry deployments, data management, and research for offshore wind and wildlife, and hope to determine ways to facilitate regional collaborative research. The specific goals of this initial session were to hear perspectives from… [More]

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Hosts

The Northeast Regional Ocean Council (NROC) and Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the
Ocean (MARCO), supported by CSSF as their fiscal agent, are the hosts of RWSC and have
responsibility for the programmatic, contractual, staffing, fiscal, and legal oversight of the
entity. As such, NROC and MARCO support the RWSC Steering Committee in implementing
the RWSC mission. NROC and MARCO are responsible for the hiring of a Director in
consultation with the Steering Committee. NROC and MARCO provide appropriate oversight
of the Director’s work to manage the RWSC budget, contracts, grants, and staffing to ensure
that RWSC has sufficient capacity such that regional wildlife and offshore wind research, grant
and contract, and fiscal administrative objectives can be met.

CSSF, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity, serves as RWSC’s fiscal agent, consistent with Memoranda
of Understanding with NROC and MARCO. In practice this means that CSSF is the vehicle
through which staffing, contracts, and grants for RWSC are executed and managed. CSSF will
receive and remit payments on behalf of RWSC for services rendered and funds received. This
includes:

  • Providing a vehicle to maintain operating funding – funds received by members for implementing the RWSC Annual Work Plan
  • In selected cases, accepting and pooling funds from multiple sources for research
  • Procure and contract for research as needed
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Steering Committee

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Annual Work Plan

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