Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewable Energy Installations

Dear Colleagues,

Marine renewable energy extraction from wind, wave and tides has the potential to contribute significantly to the decarbonisation of our increasing energy demands and the provision of energy security for future generations. This requires the installation of large arrays of devices in coastal and shelf regions. However, there are still concerns regarding potential environmental impacts on the marine environment (including but not limited to marine mammals, elasmobranchs, seabirds, fish and benthic invertebrates). For marine energy to play a key role in the development of the blue economy, any environmental interactions between marine fauna and energy structures need to be considered.

High-quality papers are encouraged, for publication, on all aspects of environmental interactions of marine renewables as mentioned above. Research areas are envisaged to include but are not restricted to the modelling and quantification of device-environment interactions (including arrays) from individual to population-level effects as mentioned below: 

• New (monitoring) technologies and methods
• The management of space, including marine spatial planning
• Collision risk
• Marine fauna displacement, avoidance, and barrier effects
• Marine fauna attraction and reef effects
• Noise/soundscapes
• Electromagnetic fields
• Bio-physical change (including sediment and flow dynamics and bio-physical oceanographic processes)

Dr. Louise Kregting
Dr. Lilian Lieber
Guest Editors

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