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- Guidance for Assessment of Cumulative Impacts on the Historic Environment from Offshore Renewable Energy
- New report published on trial high definition video survey of seabirds
- New report published on the further use of aerial surveys to detect bird displacement by offshore windfarms
- Publication of the COWRIE workshop on the cumulative impact of offshore windfarms on birds
- New report published on the potential use of population viability analysis to assess the impact of offshore windfarms on bird populations
- New report published on radar in-fill for the Greater Wash area - feasibility study
- New report published on the potential for acoustic deterrents to mitigate the impact of underwater noise on marine mammals
- New report published on the potential engineering solutions to mitigate the impacts of underwater noise on marine mammals
- New Graduate and Postgraduate Awards for Environmental Research into Marine Renewable Energy
- Guidance for the assessment of cumulative impact on the historic environment from offshore renewable energy: released for consultation (15 June 2007)
- First Awards made through the COWRIE Graduate and Postgraduate Awards for Environmental Research into Marine Renewable Energy (March 2007)
- COWRIE-sponsored Marine Stakeholders Event
- Consultation: Historic Environment Guidance Note
- New report published on bird displacement
- New Graduate and Postgraduate Awards for Environmental Research into Marine Renewable Energy
- New underwater noise report published (6th July 2006)
- Electromagnetic Fields Stage 1 Report
- Wind Fire and Water: Renewable Energy and Birds
- ENewsletter January 2006
- COWRIE Ltd a Registered Charity
- Remote Techniques
- Tender Opportunities
- COWRIE Seminar at the 27th BWEA Conference
- Review on Potential Impacts of Offshore Windfarm Sub Sea Cables Published
- COWRIE Data and Information Management Seminar
Radar In-fill for the Greater Wash Area - Feasibility Study
COWRIE is pleased to announce the release of the above report prepared by QinetiQ.
Future Round 2 offshore windfarm developments in the Greater Wash area of the United Kingdom have the potential to cause an unacceptable level of interference to primary air surveillance radars operated by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) at Trimingham and Staxton Wold. Such a loss of radar capability is anticipated to result in planning objections and a delay to the consents required by developers for the construction of Round 2 developments and potential future offshore sites.
This study was commissioned by COWRIE and BERR to examine the feasibility of deploying a new radar in the Greater Wash area to provide extra observations around and above offshore windfarms. The new radar would "in-fill" regions of air space where surveillance coverage is predicted to be lost due to interference caused by offshore wind turbines.
The report can be downloaded here
