MATOS - Mid-Atlantic Acoustic Telemetry Observation System

Project Title: TailWinds: Team for Assessing Impacts to Living resources from offshore WIND turbineS

MATOS Project Code: tailwinds

Data Type: Deployment

Project Duration: April 2023 - on-going

Project Description: NOTE: This project has been paused from November 2024 through 2026. Please refer to the Mid-Atlantic MBON project, which has similar sites, in the mean time (https://matos.asascience.com/project/detail/300). ======= US Wind, Inc. is developing Lease area OCS-A 0490 in waters offshore of Ocean City, MD (the MarWin Project Area). In tandem with this development, UMCES TAILWINDS is undertaking a coordinated program of fishery resource and marine mammal monitoring. The program includes monitoring of (1) commercial and recreational fishery resources, with a focus on black sea bass; (2) marine mammals (cetaceans: whales, dolphins and porpoises), using a passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) array and emphasizing large whales and dolphins; and (3) near real-time detections of baleen whales. Innovasea receivers are deployed alongside of the PAM array to intercept electronically-tagged fishes through the MarWin Project and adjacent areas.

Principal Investigator:	David Secor (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)
Email:	secor@umces.edu

Point of Contact:	Mike O'Brien
Email:	obrien@umces.edu

External URL: https://tailwinds.umces.edu/

UMCES TailWinds