mapping

Researchers from the University of North Carolina Institute of Marine Sciences created maps that integrate new stakeholder information with existing agency data, enabling BOEM to reduce potential user conflicts within leases for offshore wind development. Project objectives were to obtain and convey spatially explicit information indicating where wind energy development can avoid or minimize conflicts with fish, fish habitat, fishing, diving, and ecotourism in the three Call Areas published in December 2012: Wilmington-West, Wilmington-East, and Kitty Hawk on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore of North Carolina.

By synthesizing information from regional stakeholders about the locations of natural resources and their existing uses within published wind energy Call Areas, researchers from the University of North Carolina Institute of Marine Sciences were able to create maps that integrate new stakeholder information with existing agency data, enabling BOEM to reduce potential user conflicts within leases for offshore wind development. Project objectives were to obtain and convey spatially explicit information indicating where wind energy development can avoid or minimize conflicts with fish, fish habitat, fishing, diving, and ecotourism in the three Call Areas published in December 2012: Wilmington-West, Wilmington-East, and Kitty Hawk on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore of North Carolina. 

Georgia is in need of a more stremlined and accessible process for developing an offshore wind project. which includes access to a diverse set of data. That is why Georgia Tech and Georgia Deprtment of Natural Resources (DNR) teamed up to create a data application that would help put all these puzzle pieces together. They recognized major data gaps and a need for a tool to compile all of these pieces of data in one system, so Georgia Tech´s Center for Geographic Information Systems and Strategic Energy Institute partnered with the Georgia DNR Coastal Resources Division to launch a new marine planning application called the Georgia Coastal and Marine Planner (GCAMP). this tool provides online access to data regarding coastal and ocean resources, which can help facilitate Georgia´s management of these resources in regards to offshore wind energy. 

See the GCAMP here.

The objective of this study is to provide easily understandable information about the distribution of birds to aid offshore wind development siting decisions and reduce the risk of impacts to birds.

The application enables users to view current measured and modeled meteorological conditions along the coast and across the waters of Virginia.

The user guide provides assistance in use of ArcReader and the data sets in Appendix C.

Integrated marine information system that provides jurisdictional, legal, physical, ecological, and human use data in a common geographic information system (GIS) framework.  Maintained by NOAA- Coastal Services Center (CSC) and BOEM.

Link to MarineCadastre.gov

The online mapping tool enables users to search and display spatial data in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Link to MARCO website:  Ocean Data Portal page

The online mapping tool enables users to search and display spatial data in the region from the Gulf of Maine to Long Island Sound.

Link to NROC website:  Ocean Data Portal page