FORCE

December 31, 2023

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Annual Report 2023

September 30, 2023

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Quarterly Report July-September 2023

June 30, 2023

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Quarterly Report April-June 2023

March 31, 2023

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Quarterly Report January-March 2023

January 1, 2023

Pathway Workshop#1 - Cabling and Platform Development for High-Flow Marine Sites

Tags: Monitoring | Pathway | Research & Studies | Subsea Cables

December 30, 2022

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Annual Report 2022

October 12, 2022

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Quarterly Report July-September 2022

August 9, 2022

Echofilter: A Deep Learning Segmention Model Improves the Automation, Standardization, and Timeliness for Post-Processing Echosounder Data in Tidal Energy Streams

Tags: Fish | Research & Studies | Monitoring

July 26, 2022

Modeling the Probability of Overlap Between Marine Fish Distributions and Marine Renewable Energy Infrastructure Using Acoustic Telemetry Data

Tags: Risk Assessment Program | Research & Studies | Industry | Monitoring | Fish

July 5, 2022

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Quarterly Report April-June 2022

June 13, 2022

Imaging Sonar Data Automation Feasibility Study-Final Report

Tags: Research & Studies | Monitoring

April 5, 2022

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Quarterly Report January-March 2022

March 31, 2022

The Ups and Downs of Using Active Acoustic Technologies to Study Fish at Tidal Energy Sites

Tags: Fish | Monitoring | Research & Studies

March 1, 2022

Marine Renewable Energy: An Introduction to Environmental Effects

Tags: Research & Studies | Monitoring | Fish | Marine Mammals | Marine Noise

December 31, 2021

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Annual Report 2021

October 3, 2021

Seasonal occurrence of waterbirds in Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2010 to 2012

Tags: Seabirds | Research & Studies | Monitoring

September 30, 2021

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Quarterly Report July-September 2021

June 30, 2021

Real-Time Detection of Marine Mammals in High Flow Environments

Tags: Research & Studies | Marine Mammals | Monitoring

June 30, 2021

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Quarterly Report April - June 2021

May 28, 2021

Harbour porpoises exhibit localized evasion of a tidal turbine

Tags: Marine Mammals | Research & Studies | Monitoring | International

March 31, 2021

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Quarterly Report January - March 2021

March 26, 2021

ADAAM: Acoustic Doppler Aquatic Animal Monitoring for Application to Marine Life Movement in High-Energy Tidal Channels

Tags: Monitoring | Research & Studies | Fish | Marine Mammals

December 31, 2020

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Annual Report 2020

November 2, 2020

How Does Sound Travel in High-Energy Environments? Effectiveness of Acoustic Monitoring Systems and Turbine Audibility Assessment

Tags: Marine Noise | Monitoring | Monitoring Reports | Grand Passage

October 1, 2020

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Quarterly Report July - September 2020

August 6, 2020

FORCE Marine Mammal EEMP – Year 4 Interim Report

Tags: Marine Mammals | Monitoring | Marine Noise

July 1, 2020

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Quarterly Report April - June 2020

March 31, 2020

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Quarterly Report: January - March 2020

March 4, 2020

Testing of 360-Degree Imaging Technologies for Improved Animal Detection Around Tidal Energy Installations

Tags: Research & Studies | Monitoring | Grand Passage

January 1, 2020

Pathway - Phase 1 - Scientific Echosounder Review for In-Stream Tidal Turbines - Report

Tags: Pathway | Research & Studies | Fish | Monitoring

January 1, 2020

Pathway Phase 3 - Tech Validation - Cable & Platform Development / Sensor Integration - Participation in the Pathway Program through Development of the Platform and Cabling Solution

Tags: Monitoring | Research & Studies | Pathway

January 1, 2020

Pathway Phase 2 - Data Automation - Passive Acoustic Monitoring Devices - Improved Analysis of Harbour Porpoise Sounds - Report

Tags: Pathway | Monitoring | Research & Studies | Marine Mammals

January 1, 2020

Pathway - Phase 2 - Data Automation: Echosounders - Automated analytical tools (that generate estimates of fish frequency, abundance, and distribution)

Tags: Monitoring | Research & Studies | Pathway | Fish

January 1, 2020

Pathway - Workshop#3 - Passive acoustic monitoring in high flow environment

Tags: Pathway | Research & Studies | Monitoring | Marine Mammals | Marine Noise

January 1, 2020

Pathway - Phase 2 -Data Automation - Echosounders - Automated post-processing, using machine learning algorithms

Tags: Pathway | Research & Studies | Monitoring

January 1, 2020

Pathway - Phase 3 - Tech Validation - Field Assessment of Multi-beam Sonar Performance in Bottom Mount Deployments

Tags: Pathway | Monitoring | Research & Studies

January 1, 2020

Pathway - Phase 1 - Passive acoustic monitoring in tidal channels and high flow environments - Report

Tags: Monitoring | Pathway | Marine Mammals | Research & Studies

January 1, 2020

Pathway - Phase 3 - Tech Validation - Study 2 – Relative Performance of Surface-Deployed and Bottom-Mounted Echosounders in a Tidal Channel

Tags: Pathway | Research & Studies | Marine Mammals | Monitoring

January 1, 2020

Pathway - Phase 3 - Tech Validation - Field Assessment of Multi-beam Sonar Performance in Surface Mount Deployments

Tags: Pathway | Monitoring | Research & Studies

January 1, 2020

Pathway - Phase 3 - Tech Validation - Study 1: Relative Performance of Surface vs. Bottom - Mounted Hydrophones in a Tidal Channel

Tags: Marine Mammals | Monitoring | Research & Studies | Pathway

January 1, 2020

Pathway - Phase 1 - Passive acoustic monitoring in tidal channels and high flow environments - Presentation

Tags: Pathway | Marine Mammals | Research & Studies | Monitoring

January 1, 2020

Pathway - Phase 1 - Imaging sonar review for marine mammal and fish monitoring around tidal turbines - Report

Tags: Monitoring | Research & Studies | Pathway

January 1, 2020

Pathway - Phase 1 - Imaging sonar review for marine mammal and fish monitoring around tidal turbines - Presentation

Tags: Monitoring | Research & Studies | Pathway

January 1, 2020

Pathway - Phase 1 - Scientific Echosounder Review for In-Stream Tidal Turbines - Presentation

Tags: Fish | Monitoring | Pathway | Research & Studies

January 1, 2020

Pathway - Phase 3 - Tech Validation - Passive Acoustic Monitoring Device - Data Analysis Component of Comparative Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) Technology Assessment

Tags: Pathway | Monitoring | Research & Studies | Marine Mammals

January 1, 2020

Pathway Workshop#2 - Data Automation & Data Management Options

Tags: Pathway | Monitoring | Research & Studies

December 31, 2019

Quantifying Fish-Turbine Interactions Using VEMCO's New High Residency Acoustic Electronic Tagging Technology

Tags: Research & Studies | Monitoring | Fish

December 31, 2019

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Annual Report 2019

December 31, 2019

Integrating Hydroacoustic Approaches to Predict Fish Interactions with In-stream Tidal Turbines

Tags: Research & Studies | Monitoring | Fish

November 15, 2019

Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Quarterly Report: July - September 2019

November 13, 2019

Remote Acoustic Measurements-Final Report

Tags: Monitoring | Resource & Site Characterization | Grand Passage

June 30, 2019

STREEM: Sensor Testing Research for Environmental Effects Monitoring

Tags: Research & Studies | Grand Passage | Monitoring

June 25, 2019

ISEM: Integrated Active and Passive Acoustic System for Environmental Monitoring of Fish and Marine Mammals in Tidal Energy Sites

Tags: Research & Studies | Monitoring | Fish | Marine Mammals

April 30, 2019

Application of Drifters with Suspended Hydrophone Arrays to Assess Harbour Porpoise Use of the Water Column and Spatial Overlap with MRE Devices in the Minas Passage

Tags: Research & Studies | Monitoring | Marine Mammals

April 5, 2019

Quantifying Demographics and Monitoring Movement of American Lobster in the Minas Passage and Basin

Tags: Lobster | Monitoring | Research & Studies

March 29, 2019

2019 Cape Sharp Tidal Venture Monitoring Program Update

Tags: Monitoring

March 11, 2019

Passive Acoustic Monitoring in association with Tidal Energy Turbines in the Minas Passage: Workshop Report

Tags: Marine Mammals | Marine Noise | Monitoring

December 31, 2018

2018 Cape Sharp Tidal Venture Monitoring Program Update

Tags: Monitoring

December 28, 2018

Echolocating Marine Mammal EEMP 2nd Year Monitoring Report

Tags: Marine Mammals | Monitoring

September 28, 2018

Using radar data to evaluate seabird abundance and habitat use at the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy site near Parrsboro, NS

Tags: Seabirds | Monitoring

July 31, 2018

Marine Seabirds Monitoring Program: Tidal Energy Demonstration Site – Minas Passage, Year 2, 2017 – 2018

Tags: Seabirds | Monitoring

May 31, 2018

Real-Time Targeted Imaging of Turbine-Marine Life Interactions

Tags: Research & Studies | Monitoring

April 23, 2018

Finite Element Analysis to Assess Fish Mortality from Interaction with Tidal Turbine Blades

Tags: Research & Studies | Monitoring | Fish

March 1, 2018

Nova Scotia Environment and Fisheries and Oceans Review of FORCE EEMP, 2018

Tags: Monitoring

February 28, 2018

Use of Bottom-Mounted Hydroacoustic Sonar to Assess Fish Presence and Vertical Distribution at the FORCE In-Stream Tidal Turbine Test Site in Minas Passage

Tags: Research & Studies | Monitoring | Fish

December 29, 2017

Lobster Catchability Study

Tags: Lobster | Monitoring

December 1, 2017

Marine Fish Monitoring at FORCE: Report on processing and analysis of surveys from May, July and August 2017

Tags: Fish | Monitoring

October 16, 2017

Marine Fish Monitoring at the Tidal Energy Demonstration Site - Minas Passage

Tags: Fish | Monitoring

July 30, 2017

Marine Seabirds Monitoring, Tidal Energy Demonstrations Site - Minas Passage, 2016-2017

Tags: Seabirds | Monitoring

May 12, 2017

Tidal Turbine Marine Life Interaction Study: Fish

Tags: Research & Studies | Fish | Monitoring

May 2, 2017

Marine Mammal Environmental Effects Monitoring Program – 1st Year (2017) Monitoring Report

Tags: Marine Mammals | Monitoring

September 30, 2016

Use of Fish Tracking Data to Model Striped Bass Turbine Encounter Probability in Minas Passage

Tags: Research & Studies | Monitoring | Fish

July 6, 2016

Atlantic Sturgeon Spatial and Temporal Distribution in Minas Passage, Nova Scotia, Canada, a Region of Future Tidal Energy Extraction

Tags: Fish | Monitoring

June 20, 2016

Nova Scotia Environment Recommendation Letter

Tags: Monitoring

June 14, 2016

DFO Environmental Effects Monitoring Program Recommendations, 2016

Tags: Monitoring

April 4, 2016

DFO Review of FORCE Environmental Effects Monitoring Program, 2016

Tags: Monitoring

April 1, 2016

2016 State of the Science Report - Annex IV

Tags: Monitoring

March 30, 2016

Environmental Effects Monitoring Programs, FORCE, 2016

Tags: Monitoring

March 11, 2016

EMAC Recommendations Regarding the FORCE Environmental Effects Monitoring Program for 2016 and Beyond

Tags: Monitoring

June 30, 2015

Consultant's Report - Proposed Environmental Effects Monitoring Programs 2015-2020 | SLR Consulting

Tags: Monitoring

March 30, 2015

Assessing Marine Mammal Presence In and Near the FORCE Crown Lease Area During Winter and Early Spring

Tags: Research & Studies | Monitoring | Marine Mammals

January 23, 2015

Seasonal Erodibility of Sediment in the Upper Bay of Fundy

Tags: Seabed, Sediment & Benthic | Monitoring

January 6, 2015

Observations of Marine Mammals in the Petit Passage and Grand Passage, NS and Adjacent Waters in the Eastern Bay of Fundy to Assess Species Composition, Distribution, Number and Seasonality

Tags: Marine Mammals | Monitoring

December 30, 2014

Investigation of the Vertical Distribution, Movement and Abundance of Fish in the Vicinity of Proposed Tidal Power Energy Conversion Devices

Tags: Research & Studies | Fish | Monitoring

January 1, 2014

Acoustic Tracking of Fish Movements in the Minas Passage and FORCE Demonstration Area: Pre-Turbine Baseline Studies (2011-2013)

Tags: Fish | Monitoring

August 2, 2013

Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Cetacean Activity Patterns and Movements Pre- and Post-deployment of TISEC devices in Minas Passage

Tags: Marine Mammals | Monitoring

July 31, 2013

Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Cetacean Activity Patterns and Movements in Minas Passage: Pre-Turbine Baseline Conditions

Tags: Marine Mammals | Monitoring

January 31, 2013

2012 Marine Mammal and Seabird Surveys, Tidal Energy Demonstration Site, Minas Passage

Tags: Marine Mammals | Seabirds | Monitoring

August 3, 2012

Acoustic Monitoring in the Bay of Fundy

Tags: Fish | Lobster | Marine Mammals | Marine Noise | Monitoring

August 1, 2012

FORCE Response to DFO Review of EEMP, 2012

Tags: Monitoring

June 30, 2012

DFO Review of FORCE Environmental Effects Monitoring Program, 2012

Tags: Monitoring

June 29, 2012

Assessment of Potential Ecosystem Effects from Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) Associated with Subsea Power Cables and TISEC Devices in Minas Channel

Tags: Subsea Cables | Marine Mammals | Fish | Lobster | Monitoring

February 10, 2012

3-D Acoustic Tracking of Fish, Sediment-Laden Ice and Large Woody Debris in the Minas Passage of the Bay of Fundy

Tags: Research & Studies | Monitoring | Fish

January 31, 2012

2011 Marine Mammal and Seabird Surveys, Tidal Energy Demonstration Site, Minas Passage

Tags: Marine Mammals | Seabirds | Monitoring

December 31, 2011

Fundy Tidal Energy Demonstration Project Environmental Impact Predictions, 2011

Tags: Monitoring

June 30, 2011

Fish Surveys in the Minas Channel - Final Report on 2010 Surveys

Tags: Fish | Monitoring

May 30, 2011

Literature Review - Occurrence and Migration of Fishes in Minas Passage and their Potential for Tidal Turbine Interaction

Tags: Fish | Monitoring

March 17, 2011

Environmental Monitoring of Seabed Sediment Stability, Transport and Benthic Habitat at the Reference Site and the Vicinity of the NSPI TISEC Location in the Minas Passage

Tags: Seabed, Sediment & Benthic | Monitoring

February 28, 2011

Acoustic Tracking of Fish in the Minas Passage and at the NSPI (OpenHydro) turbine site

Tags: Fish | Monitoring

February 28, 2011

Fundy Tidal Energy Demonstration Project Lobster Monitoring Summary

Tags: Lobster | Monitoring

July 31, 2010

Results of a Study to Evaluate the Feasibility of Using a Drifted Gill Net to Survey Fish Species Present in the Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy

Tags: Fish | Monitoring

March 10, 2010

Marine Mammal and Seabird Surveys, 2009

Tags: Marine Mammals | Seabirds | Monitoring

March 8, 2010

Fundy Tidal Energy Demonstration Project Lobster Catch Monitoring, 2009 Survey Results

Tags: Lobster | Monitoring

December 18, 2009

Terrestrial Bird Survey, Minas Passage Tidal Demonstration Site — Shore Facilities and Cable Landfall

Tags: Seabirds | Monitoring

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