Scottish Government Marine Directorate

Questions from the Scottish Government Marine Directorate:

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Renewable Energy - Industry Integration What are the opportunities for co-location with other marine activities? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Renewable Energy - Industry Integration How can we optimise array layouts to maximise energy generation while minimising environmental impacts, including effects on hydrographic conditions? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Renewable Energy - Environmental Monitoring What new technologies could improve quantification of effects on marine environments to inform impact assessments? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Renewable Energy - Environmental Monitoring What are the impacts of wind energy extraction on marine mixing, stratification, and resulting ecological effects? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Renewable Energy - Environmental Monitoring How do offshore renewables impact protected species, habitats or the wider environment? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Renewable Energy - Environmental Monitoring How can we optimise monitoring requirements of offshore renewables projects or plans to effectively measure environmental effects while being proportionate to inherent uncertainty? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Renewable Energy - Environmental Monitoring How can baseline information on environmental conditions (animal abundance, distribution and vital rates) and influence of wider environmental drivers of change be effectively and efficiently gathered with meaningful purpose yet broad application and be kept up to date? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Renewable Energy - Assessing and Managing Impacts What measures are needed for decommissioning, life extension, or repowering of offshore renewable energy infrastructure that balance environmental and economic considerations? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Renewable Energy - Assessing and Managing Impacts What opportunities exist for designing plan- or project-level compensatory measures for offshore renewable energy infrastructure and how would success be determined? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Renewable Energy - Assessing and Managing Impacts How should the environmental impacts of offshore renewables be assessed? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Renewable Energy - Assessing and Managing Impacts What approaches could be taken to reduce uncertainty when assessing environmental impacts of offshore renewables, given variability in the marine environment? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Renewable Energy - Assessing and Managing Impacts What new mitigations for the ecological or environmental impacts of offshore renewables can be developed? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Renewable Energy - Assessing and Managing Impacts How could the assessment of cumulative impacts of protected habitats and species from offshore renewables developments be improved, and integrated with an ecosystem-based approach? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Renewable Energy - Assessing and Managing Impacts How could the potential impacts of offshore renewables on protected habitats and species be better assessed? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Renewable Energy - Assessing and Managing Impacts How might approaches to site or regional characterisation more efficiently inform offshore renewables planning, consenting and monitoring? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Clean Seas & Ecosystem Restoration - Enhancement and Transformation What metrics demonstrate ecosystem improvement rather than just impact reduction? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Clean Seas & Ecosystem Restoration - Enhancement and Transformation What transformational changes in industries affecting marine and freshwater environments would contribute to ecological improvement? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Clean Seas & Ecosystem Restoration - Enhancement and Transformation How can we move beyond pollution reduction to actively enhance marine and freshwater ecosystem function for improved water quality? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Clean Seas & Ecosystem Restoration - Marine Pollution What are the pathways and risks of contaminants from terrestrial run-off, historical contaminants from reclaimed land and coastal infrastructure entering the marine and freshwater environments currently, and as coastlines change? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Clean Seas & Ecosystem Restoration - Marine Pollution How can we integrate and improve environmental quality data across the land-sea interface from all monitoring programmes? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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