PrePARED Final Event 2027
PrePARED is a collaborative research project, funded by the Offshore Wind Evidence & Change programme and Crown Estate Scotland.
It has concurrently studied predator (seabird and marine mammal) and prey (fish) distribution and behaviour in and around offshore wind farms, providing critical insight into cumulative effects from large scale development for key species.
The PrePARED team has brought together expertise from government, academia, nature conservation agencies and industry to address critical knowledge gaps that are barriers to sustainable offshore wind development, required to help meet the government’s renewable energy targets and subsequently reach net zero.
This is the final event for the PrePARED project which ends in March 2027 and is open to all. The event will feature talks from project leads sharing key findings, networking and live discussions.
This event will be hybrid with the in-person venue being the Technology & Innovation Centre (TIC), Glasgow.
Draft Agenda
A final agenda will be emailed to attendees nearer to the event.
| Registration | 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration with refreshments |
| Opening | 09:00 – 09:20 | Overview of the event and PrePARED/ General Summary |
| Improving biological realism | 09:20 – 10:30 | including responses of prey to offshore wind farms, predator-prey relationships and seabird displacement |
| Break | 10:30 – 11:15 | |
| Updated tools and resources | 11:15 – 12:30 | including fish behaviour, prey nutritional value, SeabORD and DEPONS models. |
| Lunch | 12:30 – 13:30 | interactive with posters, videos, model and equipment demonstrations |
| Informing assessment of offshore wind impact | 13:30 – 14:45 | including porpoise disturbance from construction and vessels, cumulative effects assessments and ornithological evidence and tools. |
| Break | 14:45 – 15:15 | |
| Transferability | 15:15 – 16:40 | including sandeel distribution modelling, how findings have informed piling studies, lessons learned and a panel discussion |
| Closing | 16:40 – 17:00 |
