The University of Maine is leading an innovative new research project to collaborate with Maine’s lobster industry to explore the potential to use data owned by commercial lobstermen to map fishing effort. These data may be used to minimize conflict from potential future offshore wind development. The state of Maine has set an aggressive goal […]
The Northeast Sea Grant Consortium in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Energy Technologies Office and Water Power Technologies Office, and NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center announced six projects to advance social science and technology research on offshore renewable energy in the Northeast United States.
This funding opportunity seeks to catalyze research for the coexistence of marine energy, including wind, current, tidal and wave energies, with Northeast fishing and coastal communities.
The Northeast Sea Grant Consortium (NESGC) in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office and Water Power Technologies Office, and NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NOAA Fisheries) has invested over $1.1 million in federal funds to support six projects advancing social science and technology research on offshore renewable energy in the Northeast United States. One of the projects, a nearly $200,000 study supported by the NESGC, including New York Sea Grant (NYSG), as well as DOE and NOAA Fisheries, is led by Cornell University investigator Maha Haji, who is focusing on the development of a tool that would empower stakeholders to make more informed decisions that could substantially increase economic efficiencies in the long term, thereby increasing economic resiliency. "We are very excited to undertake this work at Cornell," said Haji. "With the growing offshore wind energy industry in the Northeast, activ