Webinar Archive: Project WOW – Collaborative research on offshore wind to advance integrated risk frameworks
Renewable energy development is occurring around the world, with large-scale offshore wind farms just beginning to be installed along the coastline of the eastern United States. A team led by Duke University is conducting a comprehensive evaluation of the potential effects of offshore wind energy development on marine wildlife within this context. Titled Project WOW, standing for Wildlife and Offshore Wind, the goal is to develop frameworks for environmental assessment at site-specific and regional scales. The frameworks will facilitate the design, development, and responsible management of offshore wind energy in the United States.
Project WOW: Collaborative research on offshore wind to advance integrated risk frameworks – June 4, 2025
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Dr. Aaron N. Rice, Principal Ecologist, K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics
Dr. Aaron N. Rice is research faculty at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University. His research focuses on using conservation technology to understand the ecology and evolution of acoustic communication in aquatic vertebrates, and how bioacoustics can provide actionable conservation and management information for mitigating impacts to vulnerable species and ecosystems. He leads a global research program focused on bioacoustics and ecological analyses of marine animals in diverse projects around the world. He is a Faculty Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, a faculty member in Cornell’s Graduate Field in Natural Resources and the Environment, a research faculty member in Cornell’s Department of Public and Ecosystem health and has courtesy faculty appointments at Oregon State University and the University of South Alabama. He is an editor at the journals Ecology and Endangered Species Research. He serves on multiple advisory panels at the intersection of marine natural resource management and offshore energy development. Dr. Rice has a B.S. from Davidson College, a Master’s from the Boston University Marine Program, a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and did his postdoc at Cornell.