Join OES-Environmental for a webinar on 19 January 2023, from 3:30 – 5:00pm UTC (7:30 – 9:00am PST) that will include presentations on tools for designing and siting marine renewable energy (MRE; wave, tide, ocean current, salinity and temperature gradient) projects with environmental effects in mind. This webinar will highlight OES-Environmental’s Management Measures Tool, AZTI’s Wave Energy Converter – Environmental Risk Assessment (WEC-ERA) Tool, and the Marine Energy Environmental Toolkit for Permitting and Licensing developed by Kearns & West.
- The MRE Management Measures Tool compiles management (or mitigation) measures from past and current projects as a reference to help manage potential risks from future projects and allow them to move forward in the face of uncertainty, or until a risk can be retired. The web tool is searchable and information can be downloaded directly from the tool.
- The WEC-ERA Tool integrates ecosystem functioning with human uses to map marine ecosystem services and environmental risk to aid in decision making or marine spatial planning.
- The Marine Energy Environmental Toolkit compiles and distills existing environmental, spatial, regulatory, and scientific data from the US into one web-based platform that includes a data catalog and mapper of spatial environmental datasets, guidelines and flowcharts for permitting in the US, and a community engagement and communication module among others.
Register to join us on Zoom here! A recording will be made available on Tethys and sent to all registrants shortly after the webinar, so please be sure to register even if you are unable to attend the live event.