From altamontsrcannounce_altamontsrc.org at altamontsrc.org Fri Feb 3 17:29:51 2012 From: altamontsrcannounce_altamontsrc.org at altamontsrc.org (altamontsrcannounce_altamontsrc.org@altamontsrc.org) Date: Fri Feb 3 17:29:51 2012 Subject: [AltamontSRC Announce] Altamont Pass SRC In-Person Meeting February 16-17 in Oakland Message-ID: <802085.73836.qm@smtp104.prem.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Altamont Pass SRC In-Person Meeting February 16-17 in Oakland The Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area Scientific Review Committee will hold its next in-person meeting on Thursday-Friday, February 16-17, 2012. The meeting will be held from about 10:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday and from about 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday in the Oakland Room at 125 12th Street, Suite 400, Oakland. Link to Map of Location. The draft agenda will soon be posted. The building is near the intersection of 12th Street and Oak Street in downtown Oakland, near Lake Merritt, and about 8-12 blocks from city center hotels, such as the Washington Inn, 495 10th St., the Oakland Marriott City Center, 1001 Broadway, and the Courtyard Marriott Oakland Downtown at 988 Broadway. For more information, contact Alameda County Assistant Planning Director Sandra Rivera at 510-670-6526. The SRC website is at www.altamontsrc.org . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.altamontsrc.org/pipermail/altamontsrcannounce_altamontsrc.org/attachments/20120203/1074ca61/attachment.html From altamontsrcannounce_altamontsrc.org at altamontsrc.org Mon Feb 6 18:39:35 2012 From: altamontsrcannounce_altamontsrc.org at altamontsrc.org (altamontsrcannounce_altamontsrc.org@altamontsrc.org) Date: Mon Feb 6 18:39:37 2012 Subject: [AltamontSRC Announce] Documents Posted to SRC Website Message-ID: <930012.59312.qm@smtp102.prem.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Documents Posted to SRC Website The following documents have been posted to the Scientific Review Committee website: P231_Smallwood APWRA Bird Use Data 2005-2011 P232_Smallwood et al Winter Owl Survey Update R66_A new method to determine bird and bat fatality at wind energy turbines from carcass searches. Authored By: Korner-Nievergelt, Korner-Nievergelt, Behr, Niermann, Brinkmann, Hellriegel Published By: Wildlife Biology Date: 2011 The SRC website is at www.altamontsrc.org . For more information, contact Alameda County Assistant Planning Director Sandra Rivera at 510-670-6526. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.altamontsrc.org/pipermail/altamontsrcannounce_altamontsrc.org/attachments/20120206/8ee8b36b/attachment.html From altamontsrcannounce_altamontsrc.org at altamontsrc.org Mon Feb 13 12:34:01 2012 From: altamontsrcannounce_altamontsrc.org at altamontsrc.org (altamontsrcannounce_altamontsrc.org@altamontsrc.org) Date: Mon Feb 13 12:34:02 2012 Subject: [AltamontSRC Announce] Link to agenda for February 16-17, 2012 SRC meeting Message-ID: <432076.80313.qm@smtp107.prem.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Altamont Pass SRC In-Person Meeting February 16-17 in Oakland The Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area Scientific Review Committee will hold its next in-person meeting on Thursday-Friday, February 16-17, 2012. The meeting will be held from about 10:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday and from about 9:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. on Friday in the Oakland Room at 125 12th Street, Suite 400, Oakland. Link to Map of Location. The agenda has been posted at http://www.altamontsrc.org/alt_meetingdate.php. The building is near the intersection of 12th Street and Oak Street in downtown Oakland, near Lake Merritt, and about 8-12 blocks from city center hotels, such as the Washington Inn, 495 10th St., the Oakland Marriott City Center, 1001 Broadway, and the Courtyard Marriott Oakland Downtown at 988 Broadway. For more information, contact Alameda County Assistant Planning Director Sandra Rivera at 510-670-6526. The SRC website is at www.altamontsrc.org . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.altamontsrc.org/pipermail/altamontsrcannounce_altamontsrc.org/attachments/20120213/8215ef11/attachment.html From altamontsrcannounce_altamontsrc.org at altamontsrc.org Tue Feb 21 01:20:48 2012 From: altamontsrcannounce_altamontsrc.org at altamontsrc.org (altamontsrcannounce_altamontsrc.org@altamontsrc.org) Date: Tue Feb 21 01:21:00 2012 Subject: [AltamontSRC Announce] APWRA Scientific Review Committee February 2012 Key Meeting Outcomes Message-ID: <747816.16779.qm@smtp105.prem.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area Scientific Review Committee: Key Outcomes February 2012 Meeting The Altamont Pass Scientific Review Committee (SRC) met in Oakland on February 16-17, 2012. The following summarizes action items and SRC recommendations from the meeting. 1. 2010-2011 Draft Fatality Study Action Items: * The Monitoring Team will audit 2005 and other data to confirm results for the draft fatality study. * A public data review period of 30 days to review and provide comments on the latest bird fatality data commenced on February 16, 2012. * The Monitoring Team and CCP will post a link to the new bird use data on the SRC website. * The Monitoring Team will issue the draft fatality study in mid April, 2012. * The Monitoring Team will provide an analysis of QAQC Study data in a separate report. SRC Direction on Confidence Interval Calculation in the Draft Fatality Study: 1. The goal is transparency 2. Provide a more complete description of the calculation of the confidence interval to show how standard deviation is derived 3. Provide a more complete confidence interval -- Sampling variation: consider a bootstrapping approach -- Uncertainty in detection probability: consider a simulation-based approach (Such as the Markoff Chain Monte Carlo approach) 4. SRC member Julie Yee will serve as the SRC Analysis Subcommittee to work with the Monitoring Team on this issue and analysis 2. Bird Use Data Workshop Questions the SRC wants to be answered/analyzed with the current digitized database: Current Bird Use Data to be analyzed in the Draft Fatality Study to address following: * How many individual birds per observation session, seasonal/yearly * Number of all birds, # of individual flying birds divided by session length * Blob level use data: seasonal/yearly Current Behavioral Data (Shawn Smallwood) to be used to address following: * Incidence and type of risky behavior (presence in dangerous locations or occupying dangerous airspace) * Avoidance behavior * Perching behavior * Behavior rates * Recommendation on optimal behavioral design including # of observation points SRC Comments Re Process for Tracking SRC Guidance to Monitoring Team Going Forward: 1. Regular feedback about how SRC recommendations are/are not being carried out 2. Need to improve QC of data sheets 3. QAQC Study The SRC directed the Monitoring Team to complete the draft Annual Fatality Study first. The SRC Analysis Subcommittee will meet with the Monitoring Team to analyze small raptor data and develop recommendations for what adjustment factor curve to use. The SRC will hold a conference call meeting to consider the Analysis Subcommittee's recommendations, probably in late March 2012. 4. Pre-Repowering Monitoring Outcome from bird use workshop: SRC concurrence that bird use data should continue to be collected into the future. The Monitoring Team asked for SRC consideration of reducing the number of observation points from the current 77. Discussion Highlights: * SRC confirmation of its recommendation that developing methods for assuring comparability of data is paramount. * One goal should be development of a threshold detection probability, including a design for improving detection of small raptors * To assure comparability with repowered sites, consider: 1. Inter-transect distance 2. Search interval: approaches for comparability since search intervals will be changing * Ratio approaches/double sampling * Measure detection probability * Determine detection probability directly, using different estimatorSearch radius 3. Search radius * Discussion of Korner-Nievergelt estimator and its ability to address overadjustment bias in: * Comparability * Detection probability * Changes in search interval * Established Bird Use and Behavior Subcommittee (Mike Morrison, Jim Estep) to consider redesign of bird use data collection and propose clear goals and objectives for use/behavior data collection * Tasks: 1. Use: look at 77 observation points see if that is being oversampled, look for ways to be more efficient to make funding available for behavior study. 2. Behavior: potential change in protocol 5. Burrowing Owl Study update and next steps SRC Consensus: * The SRC recommended that Shawn Smallwood complete winter burrowing owl nest surveys through the full bird year (March). * The SRC recommended that Shawn Smallwood look for additional funding to extend nesting surveys through at least April. * The SRC reaffirmed the importance of the burrowing owl behavior study and recommended that Shawn Smallwood look for additional funding for it. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Directions: * Click on the following link: https://ecosystems.icfwebservices.com/#/WindData * In the upper right: click on "Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area" * Choose "Report" on the left and click on "Download". This is an Excel 07/10 file; it should work for older Excel program if you have a converter. The link is also available on the SRC website data page, at http://www.altamontsrc.org/alt_amp_data.php. Edited spreadsheets or comments can be sent to Jesse Schwartz of ICFI at JSchwartz2@icfi.com. The SRC website is at http://www.altamontsrc.org . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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