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Studying the Effects of the Block Island Wind Farm on Recreation, Tourism, and the Block Island Experience

• Dr. Amelia Moore

University of Rhode Island Southern New England Offshore Energy Science Forum December 12, 2017

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BOEM Project

• No. M16PC00016

BOEM Project Purpose

• Document the effects of the Block Island

Wind Farm (BIWF) on recreation and tourism, in order to:

• Identify measures (“indicators”) to evaluate

the potential effects of the Block Island Wind Farm and future U.S. offshore projects

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Project Components

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Literature Review

• Background

research

• Ongoing

Content Analysis

• News articles

and hearing transcripts

• Coding

complete Participant Observation

• 2017 & 2018
• Block Island

and mainland

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Focus Groups

• Fall 2017;

Winter 2018

• Five tourism

sectors Indicators

• Pulls it all

together

• Quantitative

and qualitative measures

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PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION

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• Next Steps for PO

– Team interpretation of data and trends in Year 1 – Recommendations for Year 2 PO, focus groups, ideas for possible indicators – Year 2 PO – Summary of PO fieldwork in final 2018 report

• Next Steps for BOEM

Project

– Second round of focus groups – Integration of project components – Recommendations for final indicators

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