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Collisions of birds with turbine blades is one of the big issues in environmental impact assessment of offshore wind farms.<\/p>\n

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MS helped to establish a one year project at UHI Thurso on uncertainty in the models used to assess collision risk. Dr Liz Masden has a MREKE Fellowship to do the work. There have been a couple of Press references to the project recently.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/news.stv.tv\/scotland\/268311-researchers-to-study-how-dangerous-wind-turbines-are-to-birds\/<\/a><\/div>\n
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Article by Dr Jared Wilson<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Collisions of birds with turbine blades is one of the big issues in environmental impact assessment of offshore wind farms. MS helped to establish a one year project at UHI Thurso on uncertainty in the models used to assess collision risk. Dr Liz Masden has a MREKE Fellowship to do the work. 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