On August 24, 2023, we invited the public to join a webinar to hear about how RWSC and Project WOW are working together to advance the Draft Science Plan and Project WOW goals.  You can view the webinar recording here. Presentation slides from the webinar can be found here: RWSC Draft Science Plan x Project WOW, Emily Shumchenia, RWSC Making Existing Marine Life Data Useful, Pat Halpin, Duke University Assessment Frameworks and Tools, Saana Isojunno, University of St. Andrews Environmental Research and Instrumentation Validation, Doug Nowacek, Duke University

After nearly 50 (!) meetings of the expert Subcommittees and with broad participation from multiple sectors, RWSC is excited to release the Draft Integrated Science Plan for Wildlife, Habitat, and Offshore Wind Energy in U.S. Atlantic Waters for review and comment from July 1 – September 30, 2023.The Draft Science Plan describes recommendations for data collection, research, and coordination compiled by the expert Subcommittees following more than a year of information gathering and discussion. More work is needed to hone the recommendations and discuss strategies to implement… [More]

Join us on Thursday, June 22 from 1-2pm ET to learn about the launch of the RWSC Draft Science Plan. This webinar will cover: Overview of how the Draft Science Plan was developed and what it will contain Where and when the Draft Science Plan will be released How the RWSC Sector Caucuses will review the Draft Science Plan How input on the Draft Science Plan will be collected Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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 This is an embedded Microsoft… [More]

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]