This is the first announcement for the full day workshop Marine Mammals in a Renewable Age on 11 October 2009 during the SMM Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals in Quebec, Canada. Marine Mammals in a Renewable Age Potential Conflicts between Marine Mammals and Wave and Tidal Developments: Monitoring, Mitigation, Best Practice and Future Research Full day workshop, as part of the 18th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals Quebec, Canada 11 October 2009 The installation of tidal stream and wave energy converters in coastal waters has the potential to present a range of impacts on marine mammals and understanding these interactions is critical. It is therefore important that the marine mammal science community discuss these issues at an early stage to help establish guidelines and best practice, so appropriate monitoring and mitigation techniques can be implemented. The main focus of this symposium will be the potential conflicts between marine mammals and wave and tidal developments and aims to bring together all scientists working on these issues to discuss experiences, methodologies and data. If you would like to submit a presentation please send an electronic copy of your abstract (150 words max), by August 24th to info@smru.co.uk with the subject line SMM workshop. The format of the workshop will be four sessions, each including short presentations followed by discussion. For each session, we invite presentations on current work regarding wave and tidal developments. We encourage participation in the discussions by all attendees. The number of presentations will be limited and should relate to one of the four main sessions listed below: 1. Overview of devices, the main stressors for wave and tidal developments and assessing significance levels - Current Technologies, Regulator Requirements, Main stressors 2. Current research, techniques and methodologies for monitoring of marine mammals around wave and tidal devices - Operational devices, Methodologies currently in use in the field, Tagging, PAM, Sonar, Visual, BACI and gradiated designs 3. Mitigation for devices - Current mitigation strategies, Collision risk, Habitat displacement, Noise effects 4. Final discussion, gap analysis and identification of key future research questions - Main data gaps, Future research questions To register for this workshop, please go to the society web site at: http://www.marinemammalogy.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=categor y&id=918&Itemid=215 The workshop will take place on Sunday, 11 October 2009 from 8:30-5:00 PM in room 206b. There are limited places for the workshop and there will be a small registration fee of $15.00US which will include lunch and refreshments. We look forward to seeing you there SMRU Limited, Scottish Oceans Institute University of St Andrews North Haugh St Andrews Fife KY16 9SR Scotland UK info@smru.co.uk www.smru.co.uk <http://www.smru.co.uk> P Please consider whether you really need a hard copy of this email before printing it - thank you. NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY: This message, and any attachments, are intended solely for the addressee and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you believe that you have received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately and destroy this email. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are free from any virus, we advise that, in keeping with good computing practice, the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. SMRU LIMITED is a limited company registered in Scotland, Registered Number: 296937. Registered Office: 5 Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh EH3 8EJ.
