SCANS III report is now available!
Exciting news! Following the SCANS III surveys conducted last year, the eagerly anticipated abundance and density estimates are now available!
SMRU Canada wins FORCE
SMRU Consulting Canada and FORCE (The Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy) continue to work together on the potential effects of tidal turbines in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. FORCE is Canada’s leading research centre for in-stream tidal energy, and acts as a host to technology developers, and oversees the independently reviewed environmental monitoring program in the Minas Passage.
Assessing noise reduction mitigation using PCOD
We are happy to announce the release of a new report exploring how noise reduction methods might change the risk of impact associated with pile driving on the North Sea harbour porpoise population.
Harbour Porpoise Density Modelling in the North Sea
Another really interesting paper on density modelling has just been published, this time focusing on harbour porpoise in the North Sea.
Feeding with porpoise
A really interesting new study was published last week, which used data collected from tags deployed on harbour porpoises – in order to explore how the animals find food.
Riding the Corryvreckan Tide
Here’s a cool new paper by scientists at the Scottish Association for Marine Science on how porpoise use tidal stream habitats.
Ursulas new book chapter
We are proud to announce the publication of a new book entitled: Listening in the Ocean by Whitlow Au and Marc Lammers- in which our own Dr Ursula Verfuss co-authored the chapter: Listening to Echolocation Clicks with PODs.
#TBT: Real time PAM mitigation
This blog post is part of SMRU Consulting’s #ThrowbackThursday (#TBT) series. On Thursdays we’re going to posting about projects from way back when, many of which are part of developments that are consented or up and running. This #TBT blog is about our development of a real-time monitoring buoy to provide live detections of dolphins and porpoises during a port construction in the UK.
TNO use PCoD to assess impacts on porpoise
TNO have released their new report on the assessment of different offshore developments impacting harbour porpoises in the Netherlands (published by the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs and Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment). SMRU Consulting were involved in this project by assisting TNO re-developing the interim PCoD model to fit in their assessments. The TNO report is entitled: Framework for assessing ecological and cumulative effects of offshore wind farms: Cumulative effects of impulsive underwater sound on marine mammals.Â
#ThrowbackThursday: Sizewell C-POD Study
This blog post is part of SMRU Consultings #ThrowbackThursday (#TBT) series. Every Thursday we’re going to posting about projects from way back when, many of which are part of developments that are consented or up and running. This #TBT blog is about our C-POD study conducted at the Sizewell Nuclear power plant site in Suffolk.