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Technology Workshops

The RWSC Technology Subcommittee is meeting jointly with the Marine Technology Society Offshore Renewable Energy Committee in 2024.

The Joint Committee is providing a forum for discussions to engage the four RWSC Sectors (federal and state agencies, offshore wind companies, and environmental nonprofits), technology providers, the wildlife research community, and other private entities to advance the findings and recommendations in the Technology chapter of the RWSC Science Plan.

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This page will be updated with workshop dates, agendas, and other information.

What’s New?

  • The third and final session of the Collaborative Technology Workshop Series was held on November 19, 2024. Workshop proceedings for all three workshop session can be found here. These public workshops informed the “Evaluating Tools and Technologies for Monitoring Marine Mammals during Offshore Wind Construction Activities” technical report published by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. This report is available here
  • The most recent MTS-RWSC Joint Technology Committee meeting was held on Tuesday, October 15, 2024, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. ET. A summary and recording of the meeting can be found here. The next Committee meeting is Friday, January 31st from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET. You can register for the meeting here. An agenda will be posted soon.
  • RWSC and the Marine Technology Society (MTS) hosted a Mini TechSurge at the 2024 NYSERDA State of the Science Workshop where attendees identified priority technology solutions for environmental monitoring and mitigation. A finalized report and summary of this meeting can be found here.

For more information on all of these activities, please see below.

Regular meetings of the RWSC-MTS Joint Technology Committee

Members of the RWSC Technology Subcommittee and MTS Renewable Energy Committee meet to advance Science Plan recommendations related to technology, with a focus on planning and holding a series of workshops and events in 2024. View the Joint Technology Committee roster.

Joint Technology Committee

Co-convened with the Marine Technology Society’s Offshore Renewable Energy Committee. Contact Abbey Wakely, MTS

Upcoming meetings | Shared Files

The most recent MTS-RWSC Joint Technology Committee meeting was held on Tuesday October 15, 2024 from 3:00-4:00pm ET. A summary and recording of the meeting can be found here.

RWSC-MTS Planning Committee 

This is subset of the RWSC-MTS Joint Technology Committee that focuses on the logistics, fundraising, and planning of specific workshops and events. The Planning Committee is convened as needed. View the Planning Committee’s meeting recordings and summaries.

Collaborative Technology Workshop Series

The joint RWSC-MTS Technology Committee, which includes members from government, the private sector, and environmental nonprofits, in partnership with two US Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories (the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory), with support from the DOE and contributions from NOAA, BOEM, and Turn Forward, hosted a series of virtual workshops aimed at assessing the state of the science regarding technologies, tools, and methods for monitoring marine mammals around offshore wind construction activities.

Three workshop sessions were held virtually in 2024. Workshop proceeding summarizing the discussions and key takeaways from each workshop session can be found here.  

These workshops informed the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory technical report “Evaluating Tools and Technologies for Monitoring Marine Mammals during Offshore Wind Construction Activities”. This report is available here.

Related Events

The RWSC-MTS Joint Technology Committee is coordinating its activities with those sponsored and hosted by partners:

Past:

  • International Partnering Forum 2024
    • Host: Oceantic Network (formerly Business Network for Offshore Wind)
    • April 22-25, 2024 | New Orleans, LA
    • RWSC and collaborators proposed sessions related to technology development applications to advance offshore wind monitoring and mitigation.
  • Predictive tools for North Atlantic Right Whales Workshop
    • Host: BOEM
    • December 2023

Partners & Support

Support from several partners across Sectors for providing capacity for workshops to advance Science Plan recommendations:

  • RWSC will ensure consistency with Science Plan objectives/recommendations and that RWSC partners have the opportunity to participate.
  • The Marine Technology Society (MTS) will engage their Offshore Renewable Energy Committee and other MTS community members.
  • DOE’s National Laboratories (NREL and PNNL), under the leadership of the RWSC and their Technology Subcommittee and in consultation with NOAA, BOEM, and DOE, will convene a group of experts and relevant stakeholders to discuss available whale detection technologies.​
  • Opportunity to leverage NOWRDC-funded technology gap/readiness analysis by Advisian/BRI.
  • Use next NYSERDA State of the Science Workshop (July 2024) as opportunity to hold workshop sessions and/or technology showcases.
  • NOAA & BOEM leadership, ACP, and eNGOs supportive and commit to participate. Read the summary of the Nov. 1, 2023 Whales & Offshore Wind Technology Summit.
  • Turn Forward is providing support for facilitation and planning of the Collaborative Technology Workshop Series.​