Offshore Wind Energy and Benthic Habitat Changes: Lessons from Block Island Wind Farm

2020/12/01 by Zoë Hutchison, Zoë L. Hutchison, Monique LaFrance Bartley +11
Environmental Science · #Coastal and Marine Management #Marine and fisheries research

paper · pdf · doi:10.5670/oceanog.2020.406

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Abstract

Study concepts, oversight, and funding for the RODEO Program were provided by the US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Environmental Studies Program, Washington, DC, under HDR’s IDIQ Contract No. M15PC00002.

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