Thousands of wind turbines are coming to the Atlantic continental shelf in the next few decades. What will the ecological monitoring at these installations look like? How will we know what effect they have on the marine ecosystem?

Well… I’ve now finished my 2-month gap period researching and preparing a report on this subject for the NJ Climate Change Alliance. The report, prepared with my colleague Matt Campo from the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy (and reviewed by many very smart people!) was just released. You can download it here. It details the policy and methodological aspects of ecological monitoring at offshore wind farms in the eastern U.S. (so far) and in three countries in Europe with three decades of offshore wind experience.

The report: https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-wn1p-cz80

I’m now starting my second postdoc in the Lockwood Lab researching the intersection between spatial habitat modeling of coastal birds and coastal resilience planning.