1、The Ocean Tracking Networks capabilities for offshore wind environmental monitoringRobert Lennox Scientific Director of OTN rlennoxoceantrack.orgABOUT OTNOTN is a global aquatic research,data management and partnership platform headquartered at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia,Canada.2OCEAN TRACK
2、ING NETWORKSince 2008,OTN has been deploying state-of-the-art ocean monitoring equipment and marine autonomous vehicles(gliders)in key aquatic locations.A global community of researchers is using OTNs infrastructure and analytical tools to track the movements and survival of keystone,commercially im
3、portant and endangered species.Knowledge generated by OTN is used by scientists,managers,policy-makers,industry,Indigenous and coastal communities and public stakeholders.TRACK,CONNECT,TRANSFORM3OCEAN TRACKING NETWORKTogether,OTN and its collaborators are tracking oceans,connecting people and transf
4、orming knowledge.TRACKUsing electronic tags to track more than 400 keystone,commercially important and endangered species.CONNECTConnecting infrastructure,communities,resources,researchers,policy-makers,industry,and other stakeholders at local and global scales.TRANSFORMTransforming our understandin
5、g of the oceans by developing global data standards and a paradigm of collaborative research and management.Matt PotenskiGlobal scale/snapshot 4OCEAN TRACKING NETWORK5OCEAN TRACKING NETWORK6OCEAN TRACKING NETWORKOffshore wind&OTNTracking infrastructure deployed in key areas Tracking infrastructure d
6、eployed in key areas for monitoring animal movementsfor monitoring animal movementsNetwork of scientists tagging animalsNetwork of scientists tagging animalsOTN as a data sharing platformOTN as a data sharing platformSlocum glider fleetSlocum glider fleetMonitor through the water columnMonitor throu