Session: 08
Operational Mitigation - Strategies to Minimize Bat Fatalities

Chair

Ed Arnett, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership

Time

10:25 - 12:35 on Thursday, 1st of December 2016

Venue

Interlocken Ballroom

10:25

Bats in the Rotor Zone...Managing Risk with Acoustics

Trevor Peterson (Stantec Consulting Services Inc.; University of Maine)
10:25

Acoustic Bat Monitoring at a Southern Alberta Wind Farm

Katrina Lukianchuk (Tannas Conservation Services Ltd.)
10:25

Turbine Integrated Mortality Reduction for Bats

Christine Sutter (Normandeau Associates), John Goodrich-Mahoney (EPRI), Sue Schumacher (We Energies)
10:25

Effectiveness of Cut-in Speed Adjustments on Reducing Impacts to Mexican Free-tailed Bats at a Wind Energy Facility in Nevada

Joel Thompson (Western Ecosytems Technology, Inc.), Wallace Erickson (Western Ecosytems Technology, Inc.), Rene Braud (Pattern Energy), Paul Rabie (Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc.), Jason Williams (Nevada Department of Wildlife)
10:25

Smart Curtailment: Improving Efficiency by Using More Than Wind Speed

Manuela Huso (U.S. Geological Survey, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center), Joseph Maurer (Oregon State University)
10:25

Multi-year operational minimization study in West Virginia: Potential novel strategy to reducing bat fatalities at wind turbines

Michael Schirmacher (Bat Conservation International), Alex Prichard (ABR, Inc.), Todd Mabee (ABR, Inc.), Cris Hein (Bat Conservation International)