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Read the Introduction to the RWSC Science Plan

The RWSC Steering Committee and Staff have developed an Introduction to the Integrated Science Plan for Wildlife, Habitat, and Offshore Wind Energy in U.S. Atlantic Waters. This introductory document:  Describes the purpose of the Science Plan, which involves coordination among the four Sectors (states, federal agencies, eNGOs, and offshore wind companies) to advance the RWSC Mission with respect to generating relevant, credible, and efficient offshore wind and wildlife research  Reflects input from the RWSC Subcommittees over the past year  Sets forth an organizing… [More]

Marine Mammal Subcommittee releases best practices document

The RWSC Marine Mammal Subcommittee convened a small work group to develop data management and storage best practices for long-term and archival Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) data. This is a living document that will be updated by the Subcommittee as practices and technologies advance. The document is available for download as a pdf and to view as an interactive web page. The purpose of this document is to address the data collection, management, and storage phases of a long-term/archival PAM project to ensure that while numerous individual entities may be… [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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Sector Caucuses

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Annual Work Plan

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