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2 workshop sessions held today EIMR2024 (pre-official kick-off) - the community benefit workshop this afternoon is creating great discussions about the why/what/who/how of community benefit. #marinerenewables #offshoreenergy

Day 1 of presentations is underway with our first keynote of the week given by Alexander Gilliland from Scot Gov Marine's ScotMER team

Day 1 of the EIMR2024 conference, hearing from Alexander Gilliland about the @scotmer research programme, highlighting work by SMRU and colleagues at SMRU Consulting and CREEM_cake #EIMR2024

First multi author session on Collisions and Other Animal Interactions has started! Beginning with @gordon_hastie from SMRU (now posting at Bluesky) talking about the use of sonar to track animals around tidal energy devices. 1/n 🧵

Next up we have Aude Benhemma from University of Aberdeen and Lighthouse Field Stn presenting work on the impact of wind farm construction on harbour porpoises

Session 2, Coexistence Vs Conflict for sea/seascape users is starting off with Liz Foubister from West of Orkney Windfarm presenting a case study on how to minimise conflict and maximise co-existence with the environment and other sea users.

Session 3 focuses on tools for ecosystem change. Georgina Hunt talks to us about the PREDICT project - looking at predicting the mechanisms of spatial distribution of pelagic fish.

Last but certainly not least we have David Woolf 💙 explaining to us how particle tracking models can be used to understand ecological connectivity between offshore infrastructure (stepping stones) in the North Sea.

Not a great day for Scotland but in many ways not surprising. Confirms what we have seen a lot of in recent years... promises, (failed) targets & commitments... but lack of real change on the ground. Energy and JT strategy is nowhere to be seen...time for a new approach.

I was delighted to chair the “Community Benefit” session EIMR2024 this morning covering marine cultural heritage, how to “land” benefits from #MRE, community wellbeing and dissemination of research findings internationally - lots of transferable lessons!

Great fun talking about coastal community #wellbeing at EIMR2024 in #communitybenefit session. Challenged sector to resource collecting human wellbeing data as much as environmental data! Think conf has turned my hair grey tho!! 🤣 #marsocsci

Final presentation session of the week! 🥲 Getting us started for this session in Scaling Up we have Simon Waldman from Heriot-Watt University talking about Offshore renewable energy interactions to 2050 : some horizon-scanning as we scale up.

Honoured to have worked with co-chair Joe Onoufriou to deliver this wonderful conference. Looking forward to EIMR2026 (which I will not be organising! 🤣).

Excited to be participating in this seminar series tomorrow!

Our latest paper "Social influence modelling demonstrates that strategic communication and depoliticization reduces conflict in aquaculture" led by Corrine Condie is finally out in Marine Policy. Elizabeth Fulton Dr. Karen Alexander See link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to @UniofHull colleagues and academic partners who have secured funding from the UK Research and Innovation & Defra UK Resilient Coastal Communities and Seas programme for their TRANSECTS project on coastal energy transitions & community resilience.

Very excited to join forces with many colleagues and partners across Scotland and the UK to work on this exciting project, funded by UKRI Resilient Coastal Communities and Seas programme Prof. Tavis Potts Dr. Karen Alexander Lauren McWhinnie Dr Daryl Burdon and many more!

Bailey and I are in Aberdeen for the formal #TRANSECTSproject kick-off meeting. Can't wait to see/meet everyone. Excited to talk about our plans! #ResearchWithDogs #MarSocSci #Energy #CoastalWellbeing

2 great PDRA roles to work on our UK Research and Innovation funded #TRANSECTS project. I will be attending the Coast-R network launch University of Hull so please come and chat if you are interested! 2 x Post-doctoral Research Associate - TRANSECTS job with Heriot-Watt University | 1402052066