New report!
In November PrePARED released Report 9: “Offshore Wind Farm Cumulative Effects Assessments – Case Study 1: Including projects without an EIA”
The purpose of this case study was to demonstrate (using iPCoD population modelling) the difference in a quantitative CEA depending on whether projects without an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) are included in the assessment or not.
Please see the full report here – this will be followed by Case Study 2 alongside a live webinar to summarise and discuss the findings of both reports.
Output Summaries
In 2025, project partner University of Exeter published 2 peer-reviewed papers on the effects of offshore wind farms on fish.
These papers are listed on our Outputs page under ‘Peer-reviewed’.
The team have kindly now created 2-page outputs summaries for these papers which summarise the key findings for those who may not have time to read the full papers.
These can be found on our Outputs page under ‘Output Summaries’ as summaries 6 and 7.
MASTS Annual Science Meeting 2025
PrePARED team members attended MASTS in Glasgow from 18th-20th November to share PrePARED updates including a presentation by Charlie Cooper (SG Marine Directorate) “Integrating predator-prey distributions in marine spatial planning”
Members of the team including Philippa Wright and Gordon Hastie (University of St Andrews) and Katherine Whyte and Phil Bouchet (BioSS) also attended a workshop on the topic of “Migration and prey energyscapes in changing oceans: Advancing observations, models, and synthesis”.
The aim was to bring together scientists working on the same food chains but with opposite perspectives: from top predators looking down, from lower trophic levels looking up.
Katherine Whyte presented on PrePARED work as part of the workshop: “Movement modelling of top predators to understand predator-prey interactions at multiple scales”
Upcoming reports
A number of reports are currently being drafted for release in December or early January. If you wish to be notified directly when these are released please contact us at PrePARED@gov.scot and ask to be added to our distribution list.
