Wind Project Siting & Environ. Compliance 2018

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AWEA SEC Committee Meeting (Ballroom C-E)

20 Mar 18
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Breakfast will be served. For more information or to RSVP contact Michael Speerschneider at MSpeerschneider@awea.org More...

Welcome & Opening Session (Room Guest House Theater)

20 Mar 18
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Speaker(s): Kristen Goland
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Policy, Politics and Permit Priorities (Room Guest House Theater)

20 Mar 18
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Speaker(s): Jim Murphy ; Joan Heredia ; John Anderson ; Michael Speerschneider
Regulatory reform, new appointees, state-wide moratoria, securing our military bases, bats headed for extinction?! The wind industry is not alon... More...

Bigger Turbines - above 500 feet (Room Guest House Theater)

20 Mar 18
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Speaker(s): Brian Healer ; John Hecklau ; Margaret Montanez ; Mike Morgante ; Zach Vorvis
Remember when a 100 meter turbine tower with a 100 meter rotor diameter was considered to be stretching the limits of practicable transportation an... More...

The Department of Defense and Wind Turbine Siting (Room Guest House Theater)

20 Mar 18
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM

Tracks: Other Emerging Issues

Speaker(s): David Lysack ; Geoff Blackman ; Jeffrey Nemeth ; Karlis Povisils
Tapping into two core American values - local economic health and national security – wind development in some areas was threatened by claims... More...

Emerging Technologies (Room Guest House Theater)

20 Mar 18
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Brogan Morton ; Karl Kosciuch ; Kimberly Peters ; Michal Przybycin ; Stu Webster
Technology is changing all aspects of human activity.  From drone technology, to self-driving cars, to artificial intelligence, to the Interne... More...

Bat-Be-Gone 2000 (or 2020)? (Room Guest House Theater)

20 Mar 18
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Speaker(s): Carl Ostridge ; Cris Hein ; Jocelyn Brown-Saracino ; Trevor Peterson
This panel will provide an update and an eye to the future in what has become perhaps the most important issues facing wind project siting. Panelis... More...

Wrap-up Session (Room Guest House Theater)

20 Mar 18
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker(s): Michael Speerschneider
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POSTER: A Comparison Between Whooping Crane Stopover Habitat Models and Applications to Wind Energy Siting Decisions

20 Mar 18
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s): Christopher Jorgensen
Spatially-explicit models can be useful in informing siting decisions and minimizing potential adverse effects on wildlife prior to wind energy dev... More...

POSTER: A generalized fatality estimator (GenEst) for wildlife post-construction monitoring data at renewable energy facilities.

20 Mar 18
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s): Karl Kosciuch
Wildlife fatalities are routinely estimated at renewable energy facilities, but several different fatality estimators have been used during the pas... More...

POSTER: Changes on the Horizon for the Definition of Waters of the US: Implications for Wind Project Siting

20 Mar 18
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s): Allison Haraminac
The EPA and Department of the Army have begun a 2-step rulemaking process that may ultimately re-define Waters of the U.S. (WUS). Step 1 began in J... More...

POSTER: Classification of New Species Using Machine Vision

20 Mar 18
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s): Tom Hiester
Machine vision technologies have been developed for detecting and classifying eagles in real time for applications to wind turbine curtailment when... More...

POSTER: Curtailment Simulation Using Machine Vision

20 Mar 18
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s): Tom Hiester
One year of machine vision data for the detection and classification of eagles gathered at a windfarm in Wyoming have been used to simulate turbine... More...

POSTER: Establishing the Chariton Hills Conservation Bank: Ecological Perspectives On Preservation, Restoration, and Management of Indiana Bat Habitat

20 Mar 18
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s): Mark Tucker
Burns & McDonnell is establishing the Chariton Hills Conservation Bank (CHCB) to protect and manage over 1,300 acres of summer maternity habita... More...

POSTER: Estimating the Likelihood of Bat Barotrauma using Computational Simulations and Analytical Calculations of Wind Turbine Aerodynamics

20 Mar 18
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s): Michael Lawson
Barotrauma from rapid pressure fluctuations can rupture internal structures in the body, causing internal bleeding and, potentially, death. Several... More...

POSTER: Habitat Conservation Plans and You

20 Mar 18
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s): Hilary Clark
You find that you have one or more federally listed wildlife species and bald and/or golden eagles at your project site in the absence of another f... More...

POSTER: Machine Vision Field Survey Data and Implications for Risk Modeling

20 Mar 18
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s): Tom Hiester
Machine vision has been shown to detect more eagles than are observed by typical human point-count protocols. Bayesian eagle fatality risk modeling... More...

POSTER: Modeling Indiana Bat Population Densities in the Midwest and Ozark-Central Recovery Units: Implications for Regional Development

20 Mar 18
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s): Drew Carson
In July of 2017, the USFWS released a status update on the population of the endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis). These estimates are based pri... More...

POSTER: Native Habitat Analysis for a Proposed Wind Project in North Dakota

20 Mar 18
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s): Sarah McCall
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are working with wind energy developers to identify and protect rare a... More...

POSTER: Streamlining Avian Nest Clearance Strategy during Wind Energy Center Construction

20 Mar 18
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s): Aaron Boone
The rapid development of useful and cost-effective citizen science projects in recent years yields the potential to streamline wind energy siting a... More...

POSTER: Synthesis of Lesser Prairie-Chicken Research in a Changing Regulatory Environment

20 Mar 18
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s): Amanda Miller
Prior to and because of the federal threatened listing of the lesser prairie-chicken (LPC; Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) in April 2014, the scientifi... More...

POSTER: The Conservation Opportunity Cost of Monitoring Programs – Are Available Funds Put to the Best Use for the Species?

20 Mar 18
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s): Amanda Aurora
The USFWS guidelines outline an integrated process for evaluating impacts to wildlife that relies on data-driven decision making and adaptive manag... More...

POSTER: The How and the Why of Cultural Resource Background Reviews: Understanding the importance and utility of culture resources constraints analyses in the development of wind farms.

20 Mar 18
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s): Christian Hartnett
The development of wind farms includes understanding and taking stock of sensitive issues/constraints prior to construction. Cultural resources are... More...

POSTER: Weighted Environmental Sensitivity Model for Offshore New York

20 Mar 18
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s): Katie Guttenplan
E & E developed a weighted sensitivity model to compare the potential impacts to selected marine resources from activities that may occur durin... More...

POSTER: Winds of Change - Recent Innovations in Wind-Energy Habitat Conservation Plans

20 Mar 18
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker(s): Quintana Hayden
Endangered Species Act permitting is becoming increasingly important for wind-energy projects in the US due to increasingly risk-averse investors a... More...

WindPAC Reception (Founders Room at the Guest House at Graceland)

20 Mar 18
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contact Jackie Beckwith at jbeckwith@awea.org for more information on how to attend. More...

Eagle Permits (Room Guest House Theater)

21 Mar 18
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Speaker(s): Brooke Wahlberg ; Laura Nagy ; Rene Braud
Eagle permits continue to be a source of frustration and uncertainty for wind project development.  A year into a “new” permitting... More...

Eagles Part II – (NOT) For the Nerds!! (Room Guest House Theater)

21 Mar 18
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Speaker(s): Christopher Farmer ; James Dwyer ; Jeff Smith ; Julia Garvin
We are all accustomed to hearing about research targeted to eagle interactions with wind energy and their implications for siting and permitting. A... More...

Wildlife Issues (Room Guest House Theater)

21 Mar 18
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Speaker(s): Amanda Aurora ; Buck Ray ; Chad Lebeau ; Diane Sullivan
Much of our attention is focused on eagles and protected bats, but what about other bats, sage-grouse, migratory birds, prairie chickens and bumble... More...

Attitudes of Wind Project Neighbors: Deep Dive with Berkeley Lab Researchers on National Survey (Ballroom C-E)

21 Mar 18
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Speaker(s): Ben Hoen ; Gundula Hübner ; Jeremy Firestone ; Joe Rand ; Ryan Haac
Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Labs will present on their work as part of a 3-year Department of Energy funded effort to characterize ... More...

Paradigm Shift: Observation vs. Conservation? (Room Guest House Theater)

21 Mar 18
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Speaker(s): Joy Page ; Taber Allison ; Tim Hayes ; Tom Hiester
If we accept that minimizing the levelized cost of energy is critical for growth of wind (it is!!), there must be a limit to the amount of mon... More...

Bat HCPs – It’s rare, but it has to be covered… (Room Guest House Theater)

21 Mar 18
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker(s): Benjamin Cowan ; Brogan Morton ; Christi Calabrese ; Dave Young ; Kimberly Bay ; Paul Phifer
In the session "Bat-Be-Gone 2000 (or 2020)" we explored how technology is helping to reduce mortality of bats, generally.  Developer... More...

Compensation Models: What Works and What’s Next? (Ballroom C-E)

21 Mar 18
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Speaker(s): Anna Luke ; Matt Wagner ; Neil Babig ; Sarah Mills
Sarah Mills’ research out of Michigan lays the groundwork for this discussion on using innovative compensation models and planning processes ... More...

By Land, Sea or Air: A Cross-Sector Look at Community Engagement (Room Guest House Theater)

21 Mar 18
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker(s): Adam Renz ; Gundula Hübner ; Stephanie Wilson ; Theresa McClure
A cross-section of viewpoints on the topic of community acceptance in siting energy projects. Panelists from four sectors will discuss their unique... More...

Wind Lovers: Case Studies of Communities that Embrace Wind (Ballroom C-E)

21 Mar 18
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Speaker(s): Art Sasse ; Chris Green ; Sarah Distelrath
Case studies and lessons learned from communities that love their wind project. How have these areas come to appreciates wind’s benefits? How... More...

Closing Session (Room Guest House Theater)

21 Mar 18
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Speaker(s): Ellen Crivella
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Graceland Meet-up (Room Meet in Guesthouse Lobby)

21 Mar 18
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Let's take advantage of the opportunity to continue networking at Graceland following the end of the conference. The first 40 attendees... More...