A Self-Contained Subsea Platform for Acoustic Monitoring of the Environment Around Marine Renewable Energy Devices–Field Deployments at Wave and Tidal Energy Sites in Orkney, Scotland

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors would like to acknowledge the technical support of D. Mackay (Hydro Products Ltd., U.K.) and J. Patterson (Imagenex Technology Corp., Canada) with the multibeam sonar, N. Collie, P. Copland, J. Hunter, B. Ritchie, C. Stewart, I. Davies, and colleagues at Marine Scotland Science, U.K., for integration on the FLOWBEC platform, P. Frith and P. Reddish University of Bath, U.K.), S. Fraser (University of Aberdeen) and colleagues at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC). They would also like to acknowledge J. Campbell (Eday Ranger) and the Cockram family for supporting shore-based bird observations. 3-D hydrodynamic model data were kindly provided by colleagues P. Cazenave and R. Torres at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, U.K. Parts of this article were presented at the Underwater Acoustics Conference (Rhodes, Greece) in June 2014. The guidance from R. Chapman and the Editorial Staff, together with the constructive comments from the two anonymous reviewers, are gratefully acknowledged.