Environmental effects of tidal energy development : proceedings of a scientific workshop, March 22-25, 2010 / editors, Brian Polagye [and others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Polagye, Brian, 1978- editor.

United States. National Marine Fisheries Service

Series:

NOAA tech. memo. NMFS-F/SPO ; 116.

NOAA technical memorandum NMFS F/SPO ; 116

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tidal power--Environmental aspects--United States--Congresses.

Tidal power.

Hydraulic turbines--Environmental aspects--United States--Congresses.

Hydraulic turbines.

Marine resources conservation--United States--Congresses.

Marine resources conservation.

Hydraulic turbines--Environmental aspects.

Tidal power--Environmental aspects.

United States.

Genre:

Technical Report.

technical reports.

Technical reports.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 170 pages) : color illustrations, color maps.

Place of Publication:

[Silver Spring, Md.] : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, [2011]

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This report summarizes the outcomes of a March 22-25, 2010, workshop in Seattle, Washington, on the environmental effects of tidal energy development. The workshop focused on building capabilities to evaluate the environmental effects of tidal energy from turbines placed in the water column throughout the United States. However, it did not address policy issues, details of technology engineering, or the socioeconomic impacts of tidal energy development. Two overarching conclusions were identified. First, given the number of potential stressor/receptor interactions, research efforts must be prioritized and leveraged in order to effectively direct limited research dollars and resolve key uncertainties in a timely manner. Second, the next step to reducing critical uncertainties is careful monitoring of pilot scale device deployments. This report contains recommendations relevant to tidal energy device and project developers, monitoring instrumentation developers, scientists, and regulatory agencies.

Introduction; Environmental Effects of Tidal Power; Environmental Stressors; Environmental Receptors; Workshop Outcomes - Challenges; Workshop Outcomes - Recommendations; Appendices - Glossary, Extended Abstracts, Workshop Participant List; Workshop Agenda, Workshop Evaluation Results.

This report is also available from Northwest Fisheries Science Center NMFS, NOAA 2725 Montlake Boulevard East Seattle, Washington 98112 Online at: http://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/tm/ A related report is Environmental and Ecological Effects of Ocean Renewable Energy Development: A Current Synthesis available online at http://hdl.handle.net/1957/16152.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed on Dec. 21, 2011).

"April 2011."

Includes bibliographical references (page 164).

OCLC:

743438007