Marine and Coastal Hub offshore wind farm environmental research update, June 2025 (2025) National Environmental Science Program Marine and Coastal Hub.
Overview
This research update was emailed to subscribers in June 2025. It brings together Marine and Coastal Hub projects and outputs relating to offshore wind farm environmental research in Australia. The hub and its research partners have been working in this area since 2023 with a focus on key environmental factors considered relevant to offshore wind farm construction, operation and decommissioning in Australian waters.
Together we are:
- bringing people together (researchers, regulators, proponents, consultants) to review existing data, information and methods;
- collating, filtering and presenting this material in reports, data inventories, and online mapping portals;
- conducting species and ecosystem modelling to identify potential population-level impacts and cumulative risk; and
- identifying requirements for research and environmental monitoring.
Hub projects respond to research needs identified by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) and the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA). The projects are guided by the DCCEEW document Key environmental factors for offshore windfarm environmental impact assessment under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
Two hub projects are completed and three are active. This research update includes links to reports and collated datasets.
