1 year extension
We are pleased to announce that the PrePARED project has been granted a 1 year extension, and will now end in March 2027.
This allows the project to complete an additional year of seabird/prey data collection, analyses and modelling.
The request for an additional year of data collection followed a series of external factors including avian flu, marine heatwave and delayed wind farm construction. Further data collection will allow the project to reduce uncertainty, introduced by external shocks, in PrePARED outputs and improve transferability of results in space and time.
Following this extension, fieldwork is being carried out in June and July 2025 with broad-scale fisheries acoustic surveys to be combined with industry funded seabird GPS tracking in the Forth & Tay region.
The first of these surveys have now been completed.
Outputs
Report 008
We have released a new report on predicted and observed responses of harbour porpoises to pile driving noise at Moray West Offshore Wind Farm.
You can read the report here
Coming up…
- Following release of Report 007: Challenges and Solutions for Offshore Wind Farm Cumulative Effects Assessments for Marine Mammals, SMRU Consulting colleagues will host a webinar to summarise the report and answer questions from key stakeholders. If you wish to join us on 15th July, you can register here.
- The PrePARED team will present on PrePARED findings at The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life conference in Prague from 29th June – 4th July.
- The team have also been successful in obtaining a number of presentation slots at the Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife Impacts (CWW 2025) in Montpellier, France from 8th – 12th September.
