Baker Consultants Ltd

Baker Consultants Limited has made a significant move to expand our in-house capability in marine ecology with appointment of Dr Anna McGregor and Federica Pace. As well as being marine biologists Anna and Federica both bring new skills and expertise to our established bioacoustics team.

more

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) of the US published its report last month from the marine mammal and sound workshop held in July 2010. It's online here http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/mammals_sound_workshop.htm

more

The European Commission has published new guidance on Wind Energy developments and Natura 2000.

more

In a very short period of time the SM2BAT from Wildlife Acoustics has become recognised as an industry-standard remote bat detector and is widely used by consultants, universities and researchers.

Superior field equipment that records more calls brings with it the challenge of larger volumes of data to analyse.

Baker Consultants is now able to offer a full data processing service to assist in the analysis of bat survey field recordings. Using our library of bat call ‘recognisers’ our experienced bat ecologists can provide a cost-effective, independent analysis of SM2 recordings.

more

I thought I’d let you know where you can catch up with us this Autumn. Aside from the usual site work and reporting, Paul and Andrew are busy writing presentations and digesting the recent updates to the SM2BAT to present some new ideas at a range of events this season.

more

Today's themes were Cumulative effects, Tools and technology, Mitigation and compensation and Future challenges.

Again, a huge amount of interesting and relevant information which will immediately be put into practice. Our approach to ecology for wind farm developments is going to get a right good shake up next week! I'm not going to go through all the good stuff about measuring and adjusting for impact, and associated stats - that's not for this forum, I am going to take a philosophical direction tonight.

more

Susan reports on day two of the Wind Energy and Wildlife Impacts conference in Norway.

The sessions today were: species-specific vulnerabilities and population effects, behavioural and spatial responses, collision risk modelling and Methods and statistics.

more

This week Susan White is attending the Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife Impacts in Trondheim, Norway. Day one covered EIAs and site selection, pre and post construction monitoring and fatality studies.

more

A recent appeal decision has emphasized the need for reliable technical equipment during surveys.... more

On the 2nd of November, 2010 Andrew spoke about the SM2 at the Renewables UK conference in Glasgow. For all those who couldn’t make it, a version of Baker Consultants' presentation is now available. more