HiDef’s Principal Consultants Catriona Gall and Caroline Carter are looking forward to attending the Wind Energy Ireland, Offshore Wind 2024 Conference in Dublin this week. If you are looking for ornithology and/or marine mammal environmental services, please do get in touch!         Continue Reading

HiDef are proud to have recently undertaken the marine ornithological impact assessment for both the original consent for the Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm, and this subsequent variation. For this variation, HiDef undertook technical modelling and preparation of ornithology technical sections for the overall variation submission report. We are delighted to have played a significant… Continue Reading

HiDef have been busy at the European Cetacean Society conference this week 10th-12th April. Jaz Harker talked about the winter distributions of common dolphin in the Irish and Celtic Seas and implications for assessment of anthropogenic impacts. A poster by Ruth Peters-Grundy assesses diving information for cetaceans with a view to correcting abundance estimates for… Continue Reading