Baker Consultants' marine team has been accepted to speak at RenewableUK's flagship conference in Glasgow on Wednesday 31st October 2012.

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The former the industry standard for bat monitoring work, Anabats, have gradually been replaced with the new, more flexible technology of full spectrum acoustic monitoring, such as is possible with the SM2 platform. Over the last five years. Baker Consultants has found the SM2 from Wildlife Acoustics to have many advantages over the previous technology, so is acoustic monitoring in the marine environment undergoing a similar transition?

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Just like any other human activity that may have environmental effects, port and harbour developments must meet the standards set by both national and European legislation.  While the impacts on the benthic habitat and water quality are typically the focus of concern, underwater noise is not a negligible factor in the construction process.

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With the current renewable energy plans that include the development of extensive offshore wind farms along UK coasts, monitoring noise levels produced by offshore wind turbines is becoming an issue of increasing concern.

At the moment, noise monitoring for this task consists of deploying a single towed hydrophone from a vessel, which is let to drift for enough time to capture the noise profile in the designated area. However, this technique presents serious health and safety issues. With all on-board equipment turned off to minimise noise from the vessel, it could drift towards the installation.

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IMPORTANT SM2 AND EM3 FIRMWARE UPDATE

For all users of SM2 and EM3 from Wildlife Acoustics, please read the following advice. For any questions relating to the set-up of your SM2 unit or data analysis please contact the SM2 helpline on: 0114 360 9977 or email sm2@bakerconsultants.co.uk
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Last month, Anna attended the first annual International Conference on Environmental Interactions with Marine Renewables, held in Kirkwall Orkney and involving a broad range of stakeholders in the industry.

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Scotland has recently become a centre for offshore renewables investment, and the magnitude of the developments currently underway and planned for the future is surprising.  A map recently published by the Scottish government has plotted the locations of many of the recently announced investments in offshore renewables around Scotland.

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With over 1000 participants from all fields of acoustics the conference was a melting pot of ideas for the applications of acoustics from bioacoustics to biomedical studies and optimisation of musical instruments and room acoustics.

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Back in 2007, the Bat Conservation Trust published the first edition of ‘Bat Surveys: Good Practice Guidelines’, with the aim to provide some clarity on the different types of survey and survey effort needed to provide appropriate information for ecological assessments. Since 2007, new developments in equipment, methods, and legislation have meant that revision of the bat survey guidelines is needed.

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Building on its expertise of developing and manufacturing the SM2BAT remote sensing and recording device, Wildlife Acoustics has launched the Marine version of it's market leading bat monitoring product, the SM2M - Ultrasonic Marine Submersible Recorder.

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