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ITS3.9/ERE6.1 | Geosciences for offshore renewable energy in complex geological settings
EDI
Geosciences for offshore renewable energy in complex geological settings
Convener: Bartosz KurjanskiECSECS | Co-conveners: Benjamin Bellwald, Hannah PetrieECSECS, Andy EmeryECSECS, Claire McGheeECSECS
Growth of Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) developments, especially offshore wind farms, poses a huge interdisciplinary challenge when it comes to seabed characterisation, subsurface geology, sediment mobility, and assessing environmental impacts. The diversity of the challenge is even bigger when all necessary subsea cables are considered. Growing size and water depths of offshore wind farms, many of which are planned on formerly glaciated continental shelves, require a robust understanding of depositional processes responsible for forming the seabed and shallow subsurface which allows to understand and predict ground conditions better ultimately leading to project cost and risk reduction.
This session aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in geosciences applied to offshore renewable energy developments including wind, tidal, and wave as well as subsea cables or overburden characterisation for gas storage and CCS projects. We welcome submissions including, but not limited to, geophysical and geological subsurface, empirical, experimental, and modeling studies of sediment mobility, 2D and 3D UHRS seismic data interpretation, the use of seismic attributes and seismic geomorphology to better characterise the subsurface, environmental impact assessments of ORE developments, geohazards in the context of ORE, cable routing, and burial risk assessment, integration of geological and geotechnical information, approaches to nearshore and landfall characterisation as well as optimization of offshore and nearshore geophysical and geotechnical surveys.