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.

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Project WOW: Collaborative research on offshore wind to advance integrated risk frameworks – June 4, 2025

Dr. Doug Nowacek, Bioacoustics and Engineering Lab, Duke University

Doug Nowacek’s activities represent a mixture of research tool development, coupled closely with the science driving the need for those tools, and the dissemination of resulting research to students at all levels as well as the broader society.  Since starting graduate school and continuing to the present, Nowacek has pioneered several marine research tools and methods that, inter alia, seek to create knowledge as well as integrate and transfer it. His research is focused on the link between acoustic and motor behavior in marine mammals, primarily cetaceans and manatees, specifically, how they use sound in ecological processes. Specific current areas of research are the potential response(s) of goose-beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) to naval sonar and the effect(s) of pile driving with offshore wind development.