Conferences North-East Scotland Ecology Network (NESEN) Phil Bouchet (BioSS) attended the NESEN Annual Science Day in Aberdeen on 8th October, and presented a poster on “Quantifying the effects of...
Data Analyses The team are now working on analysing data collected during summer fieldwork including: Engagement ICES Annual Science Conference The ICES ASC conference was held in Gateshead, UK from...
New Report The University of Aberdeen have released a new report on harbour porpoise responses to the installation of XXL monopiles without noise abatement. This report follows discussions from the...
Survey Updates The Marine Directorate team successfully completed their survey work for Task 1.1 in the Firth of Forth as per figure 1, with seabird at sea surveys undertaken along acoustic transect...
Summer Surveys Our fish and seabird survey in the Firth of Forth is going well having completed 6 out of 7 acoustic transects passing through the active OWF at Seagreen and NnG and the future sites at...
The month of April brings new opportunities and challenges for the Predators and Prey Around Renewable Energy Developments (PrePARED) project as we continue our important work to study the impacts of...
PrePARED Outputs The University of Aberdeen have released two PrePARED reports as part of Task 4.1 and Task 4.2 – read more about these Tasks here. The reports have been delivered with 1-2 page...
Annual Knowledge Exchange Meeting (AKEM) This month the PrePARED Team hosted our second AKEM at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. The AKEM hosted ~100 key stakeholders to provide research updates and...
The PrePARED Team enjoyed a short break over the winter period and are now looking forward to more data collection and collation of findings in 2024. Annual Knowledge Exchange Meeting 2024 During...
Conferences This month, colleagues from BioSS presented PrePARED work at the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS) Annual Science Meeting in Glasgow. Dr Katherine Whyte...
ECOWIND & OWEC Annual Impact Meeting PrePARED partners attended the ECOWIND & OWEC Annual Impact Meeting from 21-23rd November 2023. . Day 1 allowed PrePARED to investigate collaboration...
Project Updates Project Manager This month I was pleased to undertake my first offshore survey work in the North Sea on the MRV Scotia. Despite poor weather conditions, spirits remained high and the...
September Conference Attendance This month, PrePARED project members attended a number of conferences and workshops to inform stakeholders on project activities. Oihane Fernandez-Betelu (University of...
Summer Surveys Following on from our successful June/July survey work, the following surveys were conducted this month: In the Firth of Forth, successful Baited Remote Underwater Video and fish trap...
Summer Surveys This summer PrePARED have conducted several successful summer surveys. These include; Quarter 2: General Updates Project Manager...
Welcome to the PrePARED blog! My name is Lauren Donachie, and I was recently appointed as the PrePARED Project Manager with the Scottish Government Marine Directorate. I will be updating this page...