SMRU Consulting Europe Team Away Day
There has been a lot of muffled muscle pains in the SMRU Consulting Europe office this week, as our annual ‘Team Away Day’ this year was particularly physical, but also great fun! […]
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08, 2019
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07, 2019
Release of SNH report on Noise Abatement Systems
SMRU Consulting are delighted to announce the release of our latest Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) commissioned report – a review of noise abatement systems (NAS) for offshore wind farm (OWF) construction noise, and the potential for their application in Scottish waters. […]
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02, 2019
How to monitor harbour porpoises in a large cSAC?
The objective of this project was to determine the most appropriate approach, by full consideration of pros and cons, to year-round monitoring of harbour porpoise at the candidate Special Area of Conservation (cSAC) and wider southern North Sea and to subsequently design a sampling plan to monitor the site to inform assessments of site condition and [...]
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09, 2018
Seal tag data helps us understand collision risk
SMRU Consulting are excited to present a new publication on the seal tagging studies carried out at the world’s first commercial scale tidal turbine, SeaGen, at Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland. […]
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06, 2018
Ursula presents Low Visibility Monitoring
Ursula will be presenting tomorrow (15th June) on Low Visibility Monitoring at the workshop on The Effect of Seismic Surveys on the Marine Environment at the European Association of the Geoscientists & Engineers Conference & Exhibition. […]
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04, 2018
SMRU Consulting Sponsor all women North Pole expedition
When an opportunity arose to support an international team of women to ski the last degree to the North Pole, how could we resist? Here at SMRU Consulting we are delighted to support the Women's Euro-Arabian North Pole Expedition 2018. Led by Felicity Aston MBE a group of 11 women from 10 nations (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, [...]
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03, 2018
A tidal first!: Tracking movements of porpoises and dolphins around a tidal turbine
By Chloe Malinka We’d like to let you know about a new publication, authored by researchers from SMRU Consulting, the Sea Mammal Research Unit, and a couple of PAMGuard programmers. Our paper presents findings from the first in-situ passive acoustic monitoring array for marine mammals at an operational tidal turbine in Ramsey Sound, Wales, UK. This post [...]
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02, 2018
New PAM power analysis tool released!
Last year, we announced the release of our report exploring the viability of Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) for long term monitoring, we are now pleased to announce that the PAM power analysis simulation tool we developed as part of this work has now been made available online! […]
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12, 2017
Awesome away day!
As we close out another really good year for the company, working with great clients, funders and collaborators, it seemed like a good time for the team to look inside and reflect on how we can work together even better and more efficiently! […]
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11, 2017
Scottish East Coast bottlenose dolphins
An important predator in Scottish coastal waters, the east coast bottlenose dolphin has been studied for almost 30 years. In that time the marine landscape has changed dramatically with marine industrial activities and the construction and operation of offshore windfarms. […]
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11, 2017
PAPER: How to monitor marine mammals in low visibility conditions
Having a British base for SMRU Consulting Europe means some of us are a bit preoccupied with the weather. And sometimes it even affects our jobs. Visually detecting animals in low visibility conditions can be challenging – and that affects our ability to monitor populations and mitigate impacts. So how do we improve detection performance in [...]
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10, 2017
Biology of Marine Mammals Biennial Conference
This week sees members of our Europe, Asia Pacific and North America teams attending the 22nd Biennial Conference of the Biology of Marine Mammals (the SMM for short). […]
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10, 2017
New PCoD code!
We are thrilled to announce the release of the new interim PCoD code (v3.0) on the Marine Scotland website. […]
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09, 2017
EOWDC Bottlenose Dolphin Study
Great to see our work with SMRU on the EOWDC bottlenose dolphin project has been highlighted in an article in the Power & Energy Solutions Wind Magazine here. […]
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09, 2017
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09, 2017
Presenting at the Conference on Wind energy and Wildlife impacts
Rachael is away to the Conference on Wind energy and Wildlife impacts this week where she will be presenting: Strategic post consent monitoring of breeding harbour seals at the Wash SAC. […]
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08, 2017
Guide to Population Models
We are pleased to announce the release of our report “Guide to Population Models used in Marine Mammal Impact Assessment” produced for JNCC in collaboration with Dave Thompson at SMRU. […]
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08, 2017
How does a tidal turbine affect seal movements?
We’re pleased to announce that our new paper has been published this week in the journal Aquatic Conservation. The study explored how the presence of a tidal turbine might affect the movement of harbour seals in Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland by analysing tracking data from resident harbour seals, before, during and after the installation of the [...]
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08, 2017
The Viability of Passive Acoustic Monitoring
We’re delighted to announce the release of a new report exploring the viability of Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) for long term monitoring! […]
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08, 2017
The autonomous future of science!
We’re excited to announce the release of our report “Understanding the current state of autonomous technologies to improve/expand observation and detection of marine species” – which is now publicly available. This was a collaborate project with Akvaplan-niva, British Antarctic Survey, CREEM, NORUT, Seiche Ltd and SMRU and it follows on from the recent release of another [...]