Effects of High-Brightness, Monochromatic LEDs on Osprey Nesting Activity
Carol Foss
Audubon Society of New Hampshire
Carol R. Foss is Senior Advisor for Science and Policy at New Hampshire Audubon, where she has served in a variety of capacities for nearly 40 years. Working with state, federal, and private partners, she has led wildlife inventory, monitoring, and research projects and contributed to conservation policy development at regional, state, and local levels. She is particularly interested in the influence of human activities on wildlife use of the landscape, and has explored this topic with respect to harvesting patterns in spruce-fir forests and development patterns in urban and suburban settings. Carol was an active member of New Hampshire’s Wind Energy Facility Siting Guidelines Working Group and the Lempster Wind Technical Committee, and has conducted pre-construction breeding bird, breeding peregrine, and raptor migration surveys for proposed wind projects. A 2009 recipient of the US EPA Lifetime Achievement Award, Carol holds a B.A. in Biology from Colby College, a M.S. in Zoology from the University of Connecticut, and a Ph.D. in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Maine.
Abstract
Lite Enterprises has developed a non-lethal deterrence technology to reduce the risk of bird strikes to wind turbines, aircraft, and other hazards. This technology employs pulsing, high brightness, monochromatic... [ view full abstract ]
Authors
- Carol Foss (Audubon Society of New Hampshire)
- Donald Ronning (Lite Enterprises, Inc.)
Topic Areas
Evaluating novel approaches (e.g., conceptual, methodological, technological) to avoiding, , Birds , Eagles , Raptors , U.S. - No Specific Region , Mitigation , Technology - detection or deterrent , Land-based , Offshore
Session
00 » Posters (12:30 - Friday, 2nd December, Centennial Ballroom)
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