Programme and Themes

The conference will be a mixture of invited review papers, together with papers and posters selected through the call for abstracts. Time is set aside in the programme for plenary and other discussion. There will also be ample opportunities for informal networking over the two days.

Programme

The conference will open at 9am on the Monday and close at 5pm on the Tuesday.

An outline programme will be posted here in due course.

Conference Themes

The implications and effects (and their mitigation) of offshore renewable energy on:

• Birds
• Fish
• Marine mammals
• The water column
• The seabed

The implications and effects (and their mitigation) of offshore renewable energy for other users of the sea including:

• Navigation
• Aviation
• Fishing

Addtional themes:

• Risk and other assessment tools and approaches
• Seascape
• Marine Spatial Planning
• National consenting approaches and lessons learned
• Significant gaps in baseline understanding