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WIN@sea

When renewable energy and a better marine environment go hand in hand

How can you produce fossil-free offshore turbine power and sustainable mussels and seaweed in one and the same sea area? And what are the effects on the marine environment and biodiversity? A new collaboration between Danish universities and companies will seek to answer these questions.

  • WIN@sea will prepare proposals for guidelines that the authorities can use in the future in connection with offshore wind farms.
  • Win@sea will map the animal and plant life on the turbines and erosion protection at the wind turbines on Kriegers Flak and compare their findings with the animal and plant life on natural reefs in the area to investigate how the offshore wind turbines affect biodiversity.
  • The project will examine how the offshore wind farm can be used as a platform for measuring equipment that can contribute to better monitoring of the marine environment. This includes, among other things, measurements of current, waves, salinity and temperature, but also the development of equipment that can count the occurrence of jellyfish such as moon jellyfish and Lion's mane jellyfish.
  • WIN@sea is disseminated widely through, among other things, exhibitions and teaching at the Kattegat Centre, involvement of citizens in test fishing and participation in events such as Folkemødet and Naturmødet.
  • WIN@sea is part of the EU lighthouse project OLAMUR, which also concerns combining offshore wind farms with, for example, food production in a so-called multi-use concept.

Contacts

Annette Bruhn
Senior researcher

Project manager and case study manager for Krigers Flak, seaweed cultivation.

Teis Boderskov
Member of Administrative staff

Task leader on WP4.2: seaweed cultivation.

Michael Bo Rasmussen
Senior Advisor

Seaweed farming.

Andreas Michael Holbach
Tenure Track Scientist

Participates in the project with a focus on spatial planning tools.

Marie Maar
Professor MSO

WP6 lead around spatial planning of multi-use (wind farms and low trophic aquaculture), ecological modelling.

Per Andersen
Special Consultant

WP5 leader: Marine Monitoring.

Peter Grønkjær
Professor

Biology: Cod populations at artificial reefs.

Signe Høgslund
Member of Administrative Staff

Works with biogeochemistry and the carbon cycle.

Cordula Göke
GIS Staff Member

Data responsible, GIS mapping.

Karsten Dahl
Senior Advisor

WP3 leader. Biodiversity and Fisheries.

Peter Bondo Christensen
Senior Researcher

Works with dissemination of the project.

Mikael Sejr
Professor

Marine monitoring.

Peter Anton Upadhyay Stæhr
Professor

Participating in the project with a focus on benthic habitats and communities.