The Block Island Wind Farm (BIWF), the first offshore wind farm in the United States, consists of five 6-MW turbines 3 miles southeast of Block Island, Rhode Island in water depths of approximately 30 m. Construction began in the summer of 2015 and power production began in late 2016. Underwater acoustic and geophysical measurement systems were deployed to acquire real-time observations of the construction and initial operation of a wind facility to aid the evaluation of environmental effects of future facilities. The substructure for these BIWF turbines consists of jacket type construction with piles driven to the bottom to pin the structure to the seabed. The equipment used to monitor construction and initial operation consisted of a towed array consisting of eight hydrophones, two fixed moorings with four hydrophones each and a fixed sensor package for measuring particle velocity. This sensor package consists of a three-axis geophone on the seabed and a tetrahedral array of four low sensitivity hydrophones at 1 m from the bottom. Additionally, an acoustic vector sensor was deployed in mid-water. Data collected on these sensor systems during construction and initial operation will be summarized. [Work supported by Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).]
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Overview of underwater acoustic and seismic measurements of the construction and operation of the Block Island Wind Farm
James H Miller;
James H Miller
Ocean Eng., Univ. of Rhode Island, 215 South Ferry Rd., Narragansett Bay Campus URI, Narragansett, RI 02882, [email protected]
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Gopu R. Potty;
Gopu R. Potty
Ocean Eng., Univ. of Rhode Island, 215 South Ferry Rd., Narragansett Bay Campus URI, Narragansett, RI 02882, [email protected]
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Ying-Tsong Lin;
Ying-Tsong Lin
Appl. Ocean Phys. and Eng., Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, MA
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Arthur Newhall;
Arthur Newhall
Appl. Ocean Phys. and Eng., Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, MA
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Kathleen J. Vigness-Raposa;
Kathleen J. Vigness-Raposa
Marine Acoust., Inc., Middletown, RI
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Jennifer Giard;
Jennifer Giard
Marine Acoust., Inc., Narragansett, RI
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Tim Mason
Tim Mason
Subacoustech, Ltd., Southampton, United Kingdom
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J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 141, 3993 (2017)
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James H Miller, Gopu R. Potty, Ying-Tsong Lin, Arthur Newhall, Kathleen J. Vigness-Raposa, Jennifer Giard, Tim Mason; Overview of underwater acoustic and seismic measurements of the construction and operation of the Block Island Wind Farm. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 May 2017; 141 (5_Supplement): 3993. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4989144
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