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Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewables: call for abstracts

January 13, 2014 by Marine Scotland Communications No Comments | Category Marine Directorate Science, Marine Renewables

Following the success of the inaugural international EIMR conference in 2012 (Orkney, Scotland), the University of the Highlands and Islands and partners are delighted to announce the second environmental interactions of marine renewables (EIMR2014) conference to be held in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis between 28 April and to 2 May 2014.

This meeting will serve as a major forum for global researchers and professionals to come together to present their latest research results, and ideas on the oceanographic and ecological interactions of wave and tidal-stream energy devices.

In addition to the two day core conference programme on Wednesday and Thursday, there will be workshops on a range of themes throughout the entire week:

• 28 April: Close-out event of the Hebridean Marine Energy Futures project
• 29 April: Workshop on: Best Practices for Monitoring Environmental Effects of  Marine Energy Devices (sponsored by Annex IV)
• 02 May: NERC sponsored workshops on:
  1. Cumulative Impact: up scaling – from single devices to arrays
  2. Statistics, Data Analysis, Survey design
  3. Quantifying wildlife collision risks with tidal turbines
  4. Managing Risk: from generic risk management to developer’s perspectives

 The deadline for the call for abstracts has now been extended until 15 January and can be accessed here: http://www.eimr.org/docs/EIMR2014_CallforAbstracts.doc

For further information please contact Monique Watt from the conference team on eimr@uhi.ac.uk or by telephone on: +44(0)1851 770 235.

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