October 2018 – Bastien Taormina, a Ph.D. student at IFREMER’s Centre de Bretagne, DYNECO, Laboratoire d’écologie benthique lab and France Energies Marines in Plouzané, France, is visiting us to work on the effect of electromagnetic fields (produced by subsea power cables) on juvenile lobster. To accomplish that, and with the assistance of Florian Freytet, he built a coil system (he is standing in front of it in the photo) to simulate the electromagnetic fields that would be found in situ. He then places juvenile lobster in raceways, with shelters at either end, and video tapes them to see if the fields affect their shelter seeking behaviour.
Bastien recently published a review article on this topic:
Taormina et al. 2018. A review of potential impacts of submarine power cables on the marine environment: Knowledge gaps, recommendations and future directions. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2018.07.026.
To learn more, contact Bastien at, bastien.taormina@france-energies-marines.org
