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How Marine Wildlife Can Coexist with Offshore Wind [Sponsored]

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Scientific American

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🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Harnessing the wind to blow back emissions is not without its own impacts, so researchers are developing technologies to coexist with whales and other ocean-dwelling species. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.8

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0:11.0

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0:20.1

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0:28.4

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0:32.9

Offshore wind in the U.S. is poised for a boom. States from Rhode Island on down to Virginia all have

0:39.0

plans to ramp up offshore wind over the next decade. And the Biden administration is pledged

0:44.0

to add 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030. It's all part of an energy overhaul that aims to swap

0:50.3

fossil fuels for renewables, raining in climate change and protecting our planet.

0:55.2

Curbing climate change is one of the best things we can do to protect marine species,

0:59.3

but harnessing the wind to blowback emissions is not without its own impacts.

1:03.9

Of special concern are these denizens of the sea.

1:18.3

That's a North Atlantic right whale recorded off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.

1:26.6

North Atlantic right whales migrate and feed along the U.S. East Coast, which is also ground zero for the U.S.'s growing offshore wind industry.

1:29.5

Scientific American custom media spoke with oceanographer Joe Brody. He's part of a team trying to figure out how to avoid conflicts between

1:34.7

wind turbines and whales. After a few years as a flight attendant, he left the friendly skies for the sea.

1:41.1

Now he's the offshore wind research lead at the Rutgers Center for Ocean Observing

1:45.1

Leadership. Joe, the North Atlantic right whale is one of the world's most endangered species. Only

1:50.4

about 400 of them are left. Can offshore wind development along the East Coast coexist with

1:55.5

right whales? And if so, how? I think the answer is definitely. The two can coexist.

2:05.4

It just has to be done intelligently and with as much information as possible.

2:09.5

The idea is, I guess a good way to put it in a term that we used to use at the airline was situational awareness.

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