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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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For more information on all of these activities, please see below.
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.
The RWSC-MTS Joint Technology Committee is coordinating its activities with those sponsored and hosted by partners: