Following are some of the studies funded by BOEM to collect information about the marine environment to support decisions concerning offshore renewable energy development.
Ongoing
- Offshore Wind Impacts on Oceanographic Processes: North Carolina to New York
- Wildlife and Offshore Wind (WOW): A Systems Approach to Research and Risk Assessment for Offshore Wind Development from Maine to North Carolina
Completed
- Baseline Bioacoustic Characterization for Offshore Renewable Energy Development in the North Carolina and Georgia Wind Planning Areas
- Battle of the Atlantic: A Catalog of Shipwrecks off North Carolina’s Coast from the Second World War
- Benthic Habitat Mapping and Assessment in the Wilmington-East Wind Energy Call Area
- Determining Fine-scale Use and Movement Patterns of Diving Bird Species in Federal Waters of the Mid- Atlantic United States Using Satellite Telemetry
- Documenting fish response to seismic surveying and establishing a baseline soundscape for reefs in Onslow Bay, North Carolinas
- Ecological Baseline Studies of the US Outer Continental Shelf
- Fishing, Diving, and Ecotourism Stakeholder Uses and Habitat Information for North Carolina Wind Energy Call Areas
- North Carolina Collaborative Archaeological Survey: Kitty Hawk Wind Energy Area
- North Carolina/South Carolina Offshore Wind Stakeholder Assessment
- Resident Perceptions of Local Offshore Wind Energy Development: Support Level and Intended Action in Coastal North and South Carolina
Please visit http://www.boem.gov/Renewable-Energy-Environmental-Studies/ for a complete list of BOEM funded ongoing and completed studies in support of offshore renewable energy development.
Other Data Sources
Other useful sources of data about the marine environment are: