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Bird collisions with wind turbines
March 26, 2014 by Paul Stainer No Comments | Category Marine Directorate Science, Marine Renewables
Collisions of birds with turbine blades is one of the big issues in environmental impact assessment of offshore wind farms.
MS helped to establish a one year project at UHI Thurso on uncertainty in the models used to assess collision risk. Dr Liz Masden has a MREKE Fellowship to do the work. There have been a couple of Press references to the project recently.
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