"Modeling Offshore Wind Farm Siting as a Portfolio with Economic and Ecological Objectives"

This work develops a portfolio model for large scale offshore wind farm planning considering economic and ecological objectives. Modeling wind farm siting as a portfolio problem accounts for the interactions between wind farm sites in terms of economic value and cumulative environmental impacts. The resulting model can facilitate a quantitative understanding of the tradeoffs between the objectives by comparing the optimal arrangement of wind farms for each objective and searching for solutions that perform well for both.

"An experimental assessment of electric sensitivity in juvenile Negaprion brevirostris and Urobatis jamaicensis"

Offshore wind developments pose novel threats to elasmobranchs (sharks, skates, and rays) that are not yet well understood. Elasmobranchs are electrosensitive but they cannot distinguish between bioelectric fields and anthropogenic fields, which may impair their ability to use electric fields to detect and capture prey. The electric sensitivity of 16 juvenile lemon sharks and 15 adult yellow rays was experimentally assessed at the Cape Eleuthera Institute 2014.