MATOS - Mid-Atlantic Acoustic Telemetry Observation System

Project Title: US Wind MarWin MetOcean Buoy and Trawl-Resistant Bottom Mount

MATOS Project Code: uswtrbm

Data Type: Deployment

Project Duration: May 2021 - August 2023

Project Description: US Wind is developing the Maryland Offshore Wind Project, an offshore wind project with up to 2 gigawatts of generation capacity within an area leased from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (Lease OCS-A 0490) off the coast of Maryland on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf. The Project would include as many as 121 wind turbine generators, up to four offshore substations, and one fixed-platform meteorological tower in the roughly 80,000-acre Lease area. Deployment of a metocean buoy/trawl-resistant bottom mount and use of remote sensing is providing continuous supplemental ecological information within the US Wind Lease Area OCS-A 0490. Data are collected continuously, both day and night and above and below the ocean's surface.

Principal Investigator:	Stephen O'Malley (Mid - Atlantic Acoustic Telemetry Observation System)
Email:	steve@oceantechusa.com

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

Participating Organizations:

Ocean Tech Services, LLC
US Wind

External URL: https://remote.normandeau.com/uswind_home.php

US Wind MarWin TRBM